Start paying your bets, Cavs fans
So the Warriors will win, boohoo! I guess, it’s the sports god of making up for whetting the Warriors up last year with a record 73-win season only for that team to also hold the inglorious record of being the first to lose a 3-1 lead in the NBA finals.
Apersonal errand the past few days had me missing much of what’s been going on in sports and it seems, I shouldn’t have bothered catching up with what happened while I was busy lawyering around.
The Cavs, lost, again (ouch); the Azkals lost to China, 8-1 (double ouch); and Joy is still not with the national team, has been pictured as a prima donna and Patafa now faces a House Inquiry ( yey!).
As to the first one, I don’t think the Cavaliers will ever get back from a 3-0 deficit the way they fought from a 3-1 deficit to win the crown last year. As every body has been saying, this year’s team isn’t last year’s 73-9 choke- of-a-team (to rib the GSW fans) because they have Kevin Durant. Bought vs. built? Hey, we may not like how the way Kevin Durant will win his first title but this is professional basketball we are talking about, not golf or football.
So what if one team’s superstar leaves to join another team’s group of superstars? KD did that last year, and guess who also did it? LeBron James when he transferred from Cleveland to Miami. And if you want to go back even further, the Round Mound of Rebound, Charles Barkley, left Phoenix to join Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon and didn’t the Lakers have, at one time, Karl Malone and Gary Payton together in their lineup, too? Barkley and Malone, unfortunately, didn’t end up with rings with their transfer of residence.
So the Warriors will win, boohoo! I guess, it’s the sports god of making up for whetting the Warriors up last year with a record 73-win season only for that team to also hold the inglorious record of being the first to lose a 3-1 lead in the NBA finals.
As to the Azkals, I haven’t seen what happened in that 8-1 friendly to China and the only advantage I see in that embarrassing loss is that it possibly can’t get any worse, right? We’re taking on Tajikistan in the AFC Qualifiers on June 13 and it’s the first time that the Philippines have gone this deep in the continental cup qualifiers.
Coach Thomas Dooley isn’t Michael Weiss as noted writer Ryan Fenix said of his read on that 8-1 loss but then again Dooley isn’t a magician either. After that 8-1 loss, confidence on the team is at an all-time low but the Azkals have always managed to spring a surprise especially when least expected.
As for Patafa well...( rolls eyes)