-If the first weekend of March Madness is like sex, Championship Week is like the pre-sex blowjob. Maybe it's not quite as good in comparison because of the utter awesomeness of the ensuing event, but it still kicks a staggering amount of ass. To continue the analogy, the regular season is like the "dating, but not in bed yet" period we all remember from high school--you tune out most of the time, pay attention for a few notable moments, and wait for March to come around. God, I'm a bad person.
-Earlier this week I stated that I am not wagering against John Wall under any circumstances. After this afternoon's finish, we can add Evan Turner to that list. I can't think of any player in history that... cool. How is it humanly possible to nail a buzzer-beating 29-footer that you barely released in time (.2 seconds before the buzzer, to be exact), staving off your school's top rival from pulling a huge upset, and all you do is keep your arm in the air, wrist cocked, and walk off the court? Any other human being on the planet would've gone nuts. Turner has a pure assassin's mentality. Pick against him at your own risk.
-Worth noting: ESPN's current lineup on their online video section, ESPN 360: halftime of Kentucky/Alabama, or the women's MAC semifinal. And this is while lots of people are still on their lunch break. Inexcusable, Worldwide Leader. Inexcusable.
-In case you haven't heard, the Milwaukee Bucks have caught fire, and are now in line for the 5-seed in the East. Here's a summary of the teams ahead of them: Boston, Cleveland, Orlando, Atlanta. Behind them, and still in the playoff hunt? Toronto, Chicago, Charlotte, Miami. How in the hell did the sucktastic Bucks sneak into that group just a year after finishing 14 games below .500? John Hammond deserves a ton of credit for turning this team around. He's been hard at work undoing Larry Harris's mistakes, and it's finally showing. This team is put together right. Hammond has avoided the temptation to overpay for role players in a seller's market, put together a team instead of 12 players, and gotten the couple of lucky breaks that every contender needs. Andrew Bogut has quietly transformed into a legit Alpha Dog who can take over games, Brandon Jennings is a poor man's Kobe to Bogut as the poor man's Shaq (both young guards who can take over occasional games, but are also smart enough to defer to the big man when it's not their night), Jerry Stackhouse has given the team an edge and a swagger that they needed, and Hammond should be going to jail for robbing the Bulls in the John Salmons trade. Can you compete with a nucleus of Bogut-Jennings-Salmons, with the wildly underrated Luc Richard Mbah-a-Moute, Ersan Ilyasova, Stackhouse, and Luke Ridnour as role players? Absolutely. Now we just need a dedicated fan in Milwaukee to plant a bag of weed each in Michael Redd and Dan Gadzuric's cars. Any volunteers?
-It's too early in the spring to really draw any conclusions. But it's worth noting that as soon as I got done verbally shitting on Gregg Zaun in Monday's season preview, he has been 5 for 12 with two runs and five RBI. As for the rest of our catchers? Matt Treanor and George Kottaras, both presumed to be crappy, are each over .300 while Jon Lucroy and Angel Salome, one of whom is assumed to be the future of the position, are a combined 0-for-9.
-Tim Tebow's 22 on the Wonderlic made news for it's overall crappiness. However, Hall of Fame quarterbacks Dan Marino and Jim Kelly both scored 15s on the same test, while notable bust Alex Smith scored a 40. The lesson here, as always? Shit like that doesn't really matter. It's worth mentioning that sure-thing future bust Jimmy Clausen wasn't much better, scoring a 23--also below average.
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