To quote an a literary expression first coined in Geoffery Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Rafer did the damn thing in Game 3.
Sure he made some boneheaded decisions, forced a few things and seemed to follow up ever great play with an equally quixotic one, but as you can see here in this “All-Access Game 3″ video, the Magic probably don’t win unless Rafer is able to keep the Lakers interior defense honest by continually driving the ball to the rim.
(Sidenote: Van Gundy’s post-game press conference comments about how he was able to help shake Rafer out of his Game 1 and Game 2 funks were super. “I’m a motivational genius, that’s what I am,” said SVG. “I thought for two days about what to say to him and I said ‘Play your game.’”)
I’ve always been a big Skip to My Lou fan so it was nice to see him earn at least some form of redemption after his early series troubles. But what’s even nicer is to see archival footage of him rocking the And 1 Mixtape back before it turned into a really lame show on ESPN. For the uninitiated, these videos were the hottest thing in the underground basketball world back when they were little more than VHS highlight tapes of streetball. And Rafer was the undisputed star — to the point that Skip is pretty much solely to blame for the horrible “And 1 Guy” tattoos on the arms of his teammate Rashard Lewis, Phoenix Sun Matt Barnes, Chicago Bull Brad Miller and thousands of other misguided, impressionable ballers who came of age in the 1990s. I’m sure those seemed like a good idea at the time, fellas, but now you may as well have the adidas logo on your bicep. Hell, Rafer was so hot back then that he even parlayed his And 1 buzz into a Slam cover story despite the fact that he was an otherwise unheralded point guard playing college ball in the WAC.
Thus, here’s video of Rafer breaking ankles and earning his nickname. Bonus: It’s set to the best YouTube highlight video song sung by a kid-peer. (via NBA Playoffs 2009 Tumblr, which has easily captured the Postseason MVP of the NBA blogosphere. I mean, you can’t look at this and tell me that amazing is happening more often anywhere else.)
After literally hours spent wondering why a 7′0″ dude with a wide-open lane to the rim would pick up his dribble at the foul line and attempt a floating finger roll instead of dribbling one more time and trying to dunk, we have found our answer.
Brad Miller shaved off his beard three weeks ago and is now dead…on the inside. Ever since, his game has suffered tremendously. All his significant stats have dropped aside from his rising turnover numbers and he has generally been seen moving with about as much grace as your friend’s 54-year-old dad who always insisted on playing pick-up with you on Sunday morning when you were in junior high. Not only that, everything else in Brad’s life has gone haywire as well:
And he didn’t really like the movie Earth.
And he still hasn’t seen the Susan Boyle YouTube clip.
And he burned his hand on his waffle maker.
And he can’t get his DVR to stop recording every episode of The Soup.
Additionally, goathair is either writing a book or pretending to write a book. You never know cause he’s an enigmatic cat like that, but if the former is true than someone should publish it since there’s a full page excerpt on his site discussing Brandon Roy and Yetis.
Today, I’m here to share with you the nutritional cornerstone of the modern NBA player. Some people think you need to be like Alexander Rodriguez from Major League Basketball and inject your self with human growth whore-moan if you want to grow up to be big and strong and fast and tall and rich and play professional athletics. But as you can see from my Ted Dibiase-like frame, all it takes is a commitment to proper eating habits.
So to all you kids out there, just be like me and someday maybe you too can be like me.
All us NBA guys were really excited when you beat that Darth Vader sans helmet guy in that one election a while back. However, I know that you’ve had a rough two months since you went to that Beyonce concert.
Well luckily I was listening to some classic Swizz Beatz tracks (”Flesh of My Flesh,” “Memph Bleek Is…,” “Wild Out,” “Jigga My Nigga,” some Drag-On ish, etc.) last night with Tim Thomas and it made me remember that famous quote from Ruff Ryder Teddy Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is carrying a bit stick softly.”
Never before has this truism been truer than it is true during the current dough crisis. But if you watch my solution in the video below (via The Blowtorch), I think you can agree that the whole country will be fine.
In summation: I got this.
Your welcome,
Bradley Alan Miller
P.S. – Now that you have some free time, we could use you in the back court. That Gordon kid is good, but he’s kind of a cock. Text me.
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