Playoff Fever

The news I took in this weekend, and primarily yesteday, was focused entirely on the NBA playoffs. For those sports fans in the class, you have some idea of the circus that has become of the series between the Dallas Mavericks/Golden State Warriors series. This short entry has to do with a column that was written about Golden State's victory last night that gave them a 3-1 lead in the series.


"The first sign, though, that the Mavs had escaped whatever San Francisco fog enveloped them in Game 3? Nowitzki breaking out his air guitar courtside.
The Warriors, trying to keep the raucous pregame vibe going, played AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," as the players waited for someone in the TNT truck to radio the game ops director to notify the referees to motion the players out to midcourt. (Over-production, thy name is NBA playoffs.)
Nowitzki, who can rock the real six-string deal, folded down his socks and then abruptly struck an imaginary chord with a force that would've made Pete Townshend proud. The same morose German who unnecessarily painted his team into a corner by declaring Game 4 akin to "a Game 7," was, for a moment, as loose as Jack Black.
(Here's my point on the do-or-die reference: you can play as if it is, you just don't say it -- because, if you're the No. 1 seed playing No. 8, you should believe you can still come back from 3-1 down, as Phoenix did last year.)"


I see where Ric Bucher, the writer of this column, was trying to go with this, but he made a pretty bad comparison with his reference to "making Pete Townshend proud." After all, Townshend was the guitar player for The Who, and not AC/DC. Some editor should have switched in Angus Young, the actual player behind the song mentioned.

And on one more note, the passage in paranthesis is misleading as well. He references that last year Phoenix overcame this exact deficit that the Mavs face now, but it reads that Phoenix was the No. 1 seed and the Lakers were the No. 8 sead last year. Phoenix was actually the No. 2 seed and the Lakers were the No. 7.