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I'm going with Pistons in 6 and San Antonio in 6.

That's very....interesting.I don't like how the red is smeared all over his mouth and off his lips, but other than that, it certainly looks terrifying.

Ryan getting the job and dumping Kelly was hilarious and totally out of left field. Brilliant.

oh. my. god. If all of this turns out to be "Guess what? The Others know everything that's going on and are going to one-up the Losties AGAIN!!!! Part 3897432", i swear I'm going to murder people!!! I hope the Lost writers get driven mad by guilt by knowing they are responsible for the death of the people I murder!!! Still it was a pretty good episode. Mark my words, Hurley or Jin (he is the last shooter, right? they didnt explicitly say it) is going to die. btw i'm pretty sure the woman who called Charlie a hero was Nadia, Sayid's girl.

*cough*bullshit*cough*

You know what's really irritating, is that the rule DID work, Amare and Diaw headed back *because* of the rule - if there was no rule, there's no doubt Amare would be out there in Horry's face. It actually worked, but they're still suspended. This is the epitome of letter of the law over spirit of the law. i'm seriously worried about the bulls in that series. Once the other team makes some real adjustments, all of a sudden the Flip S. Pistons seem lost - boy when have I seen that before??

so tonight's episode isn't the season finale, that's next week, right?

um, it's sad he's dead in the sense that I don't like it when anybody (other than maybe murderers and rapists) dies. Yeah. That's as positive a thing as I can muster.

Jordin should get the boot. Melinda is the best singer and did even better than usual, and I respect Blake for doing more risky performances and trying to make his songs more than just glorified karoake.

caught this bit in a steve kerr column: I'm gonna laugh my ass off if, after all the talk about how the Suns have to be suspended for the bench thing, if Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen also get suspended.

They should suspend Horry and Diaw, and buy the excuse that Amare was checking in and thus didn't actually leave the bench (even though that's mostly BS).

watching that last play with vince carter, this guy never fails to live up to my preconception of him as "the most talented dumb player in the league". Great talent, he just has BAD decision making abilities, I've always thought he has no idea what's a good shot and what's a bad shot, and that decision making seems reflected in his inside or outside play.

Man, Utah is impressive with their crunch-time grit. I never really realized what a good roster they have, but Boozer and Memo is a GREAT complimentary frontline, Deron is sick, and AK47, when he's playing well, is right up there with the Tay Prince, Battier, and Bowen as really essential defensive minded wings. I didn't really pay attention to them until the last 2 games of the Houston series, but since then, I've been very impressed, they are a sleeper team that could imo sneak in and win it all.

I don't know, isn't Turion X2 supposed to be AMD's highest line of laptop processors? I know that the Core Duos (and Core 2 Duos) are faster, but i'm guessing Turion X2 might beat a "Dual Core"

^ good call. It certainly seems like every week is a new "one of Tony's circle starts to hate him". I wonder where they're going with it.

i watched a few scenes from the episode again on abc.com, it certainly looks like Ben shot Locke around the kidney area. It was his left kidney area (left from Locke's POV). Was that the kidney his dad stole?

why wouldn't we? LOST writers love to stretch their backstories out. Unless Ben bites it in the season finale (and you all know i'd be thrilled about that), but then you wonder why he got pushed up to such a prominent character to just die suddenly.

I know what happened to Annie, she got a case of "save her for Ben's next flashback episode" fever.

Props on that pick. Looks like it will probably come true. the series so far:

The Bulls just got punked in the 2nd half. They got intimidated and rattled by the Pistons 3-2 zone. That same zone, btw, helped them overcome a 20 point deficit in a regular season game too.

well the Bulls certainly came to play, their D looks impressive. Anybody see the clip of Bowen kicking Amare's ankle on that dunk? That's messed up and was clearly deliberate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4yz__akIU

yes. because technically this is the 2nd half of Season 5. they just hyped it up as a new season.

lol that scene with Harry was great, I love how he does the dickish evil smile.

as much as a cliche it is, re-focusing your play to match up specifically with your new opponent is one constant of deep playoff runs - so I think it's accurate IN THIS CASE to pull out the ole "they dont know how to play in the playoffs" cliche. Each new series requires some ca-jiggering in style and intensity, suited to your opponent. Take the pistons, their style of defense is completely inverted from the Orlando series, where they were sending wave after wave of defender inside to clog up the paint, and now where they are focusing everything on the perimeter. That's where the Bulls have no experience since they've never been outta the first round - they were probably thinking the same thing "well it's the same game, it's the same opponent, we'll have as hard a time as we did in the regular season, we just gotta play our game." Playoffs are really about deep scouting and exploiting mismatches while regular season, nobody really scouts for individual games, they don't have time, many times they miss obvoius mismatches. The Bulls fronted the Pistons post guys each time during the reg. season - so for the series, the Piston guys sank back a bit and got open offensive rebounding opportunities because their defender was too busy fronting them. Gordon is the Bulls top scoring threat, so from literally the FIRST play, billups immediatly attacked him on offense. It was a strategic take-down - while the Bulls players were getting "bored" during their layoff, the Pistons took full advantage of the looong layoff and built a plan. What was the Bulls' plan? Did they have one? With a win tonight, they can get right back into the series though, so maybe Skiles has devised something. They've had an extra day off, as well as home-court coming, so one would hope that they're making some adjustments, and making plans to attack some weak areas of the Pistons, rather than constantly being on the defensive. Their zone in the 4th was *somewhat* effective in stopping penetration - but the Pistons were hitting their outside shots. At the United center their percentage will probably come down so this is probably the time for the Bulls to work that zone now.

maybe Russeou finds Locke, heck maybe she's following him and Ben. Theyve already shown the island healing a locke injury last episode, all she would (theoretically) have to do is yank the bullet out, ie stopping him from dying, and the island should do the rest.