Tweets, a Tornado, and a Championship

Okay, I had to allow for the Lakers championship to fully sync in before writing this post, it wasn't just your normal case of procrastination. I didn't want to write it right away and say I TOLD YOU SO, that all of my predictions came true, that Dwight Howard would struggle because Derek Fisher would be a pest, that Rafer Alston wouldn't be able to knock down shots, that Jameer Nelson wouldn't have an impact, that the Magic's lack of experience would haunt them. No, I truly didn't want to do that, but seeing I already started, why not finish? Furthermore, Trevor Ariza DID outplayed Hedo Turkoglu down the stretch in the fifth and deciding game, Dwight Howard STILL needs a great deal of work on his post moves and he brings the ball down too often allowing for guards to come in and strip him, and Kobe Bryant would be too much for Mickael Pietrus. Although Pietrus worked hard against Bryant, how can he be a great defender if Bryant averaged 30 points per game with 7 assists all while shooting 43% from the field throughout the series? Yes, Pietrus made Bryant work, but in the end so what? Every NBA defender makes the offensive guy work, there isn't a single NBA player who is so bad that a guy can score on him without breaking a sweat; that is when they try (looks in Tim Thomas' direction--by the way, I have mentioned Tim Thomas in about 50% of my blog posts since the start of the NBA playoffs, from now on, Tim Thomas will be mentioned in every post in some way, I might just start to title every post "The Tim Thomas Lounge"). Anyway, congratulations to the Lakers, but mainly Kobe Bryant, I think I wanted him to win this one as bad as he did (not really), here's to Kobe getting two more and surpassing Jordan in everyone's mind; not just the thinking person's.

In other news, Garbage Time now has a Twitter and regrettably so. Much has been made of this "new" site that allows you to write "what you are doing." You can follow anyone from Shaquille O'neal to Kevin Love to Gil Maher. It's somewhat cool to see what Shaq is thinking or wants you to think he's thinking, but overall it's a poorly run site, that is a pain to deal with. Nevertheless, Kevin Love made news on Twitter today by reporting Timberwolves coach (or former coach) Kevin McHale won't be returning to coach the team, showing Twitter's usefulness, besides if Kevin Love is on Twitter, why aren't you?

Lastly, there has been a tornado warning for Allegheny County. Still waiting for it to come to the Hill District. With the end of basketball season, I'm not sure what I'm going to write about, that being the case if you want to join the Garbage Time staff shoot me an email at garbagetime3@gmail.com. You won't have to be a sports writer, just an interesting one. I may just have to cover the NBA year round, with a daily NBA Live segment, similar to the Mothership's NFL Live in which the NFL is covered in the middle of May and LeBron James' high school football career is covered for half of the show. Kidding about the last part, summertime=in depth baseball coverage, or just repeating whatever Peter Gammons says.