Archive for February 2012
FTW slams the Slam Dunk Contest
GMA News' FTW (For The Win) had this nice piece where Mico Halili, Magoo Marjon, Miakka Lim,
and guest Powerade assistant coach
Charles Tiu thumbed down the 2012
NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
What can I say… but yehey!
I hated the contest. I thought it was corny
and underachieving and even if Jeremy
Evans won a few hearts with that awesome two-ball dunk, it was not enough
to make heads turn.
Unlike the dunk contest, FTW is
entertaining.
Check this out.
Best line of the clip:
Magoo: Lebron has been dodging it… he’s been
doing a Mayweather…
Mico: Wala namang fourth quarter doon
e.
LOL.
Funny stuff.
Game over.
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A Kia Optima dunks over Blake Griffin!
There is a
reason why Los Angeles Clippers’
livewire act Blake Griffin never
participated in the ill-fated 2012 NBA
Slam Dunk Contest.
He was
injured.
Yeah.
The
emphatic finisher brought this upon himself though. This happened when Griffin
agreed to take one for the team with some expert dunkologist and a 2012 Kia Optima.
Here’s how
he injured himself.
This viral
video is brought to you by Kia Optima and Funny
or Die.
By the way,
yeah the expert guy is Jeff Goldblum.
Game over.
Sydrified Reader's Choice
I just came
back from a seminar that encourages me to make my environment my special
playground and to take risks on every opportunity that presents itself.
So here’s the part of my blog where I entertain
article suggestions.
Sometimes my nights are boring and inasmuch as I
enjoy hunting for eye candies, I’d rather create things to fight off my
insomnia.
So let me give you my specs: I can do sports
articles (except for tennis for some insane reason because I have no interest in
the sport), movie reviews (especially if I saw it on the big screen), things I
find interesting, travel, and strategy.
My articles vary from a day to a week. However,
there are a lot of things that falls on my “interests”. It will be easier for
me to write about Ginebra than write
about the best players ever produced by Arellano
University (this is easily Rey
Cuenco) because of the richness of the facts and due to my interest factor.
If you’re interested picking my brain, then all you
have to do is either email me at stacey_the_evil_chipmunk@yahoo.com or reply to this thread.
You just got Sydrified.
Game over.
2012 NBA All-Star Weekend: The Review
This is the time of the NBA All-Star Weekend that I really look
forward to. This is where the commentary is entertaining and at the same time,
players are allowed to goof off in a very cool manner.
Game starts now.
***
SKILLS CHALLENGE ***
I like it that the commentators
are barking on various individuals who lack fundamentals. Anyway, New Jersey’s Deron Williams is his
awesome self while San Antonio’s Tony
Parker is proving that he is not yet over-the-hill. Only three players will
advance and Boston’s Rajon Rondo, a
last-minute addition following the injury to Golden State’s Stephen Curry, broke his tie with Washington’s John Wall to advance to
the next round.
Aside from Wall, Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving and Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook
failed to make the grade with their time.
Anyway, in the final round Rajon
Rondo almost had it but he took too long in the bounce pass station. The same
thing happened to Tony Parker but Rondo had more attempts. Deron, who
established the best time in the first round all-time coasted in the other
stations until he hit the jump shot station. Deron had more than three shots in
that area and he paid it at the end as he ceded the title for Tony Parker.
This is Parker’s first win in
three tries at the challenge.
***
NBA CARES ***
This is one aspect of the NBA
that I truly enjoy… and at the same time cringe when the lockout happened. It’s
nice that the NBA has this and I won’t diss them for this.
***
THREE-POINT SHOOTOUT ***
Is it me or is the defending
champion Miami’s James Jones really,
really out of place in this event? Charles
Barkley is rooting for hometown kid Orlando’s
Ryan Anderson while Reggie Miller
is feeling the love for Minnesota’s Kevin
Love. I want James Jones to win because I think he’s focused… and this is
the only thing he has going for his career at the moment.
Miami’s
Mario Chalmers
is up first and he scored 18 points. Love followed up Chalmers by tying his
mark. New Jersey’s Anthony Morrow is
next and he is wearing the late Drazen
Petrovic’s jersey. Nice homage by Morrow but he is only good for 14 points.
Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant is up
next and the late addition is in first place with 20. I think this shocked
people because he figured in last in his previous offing. Ryan Anderson is the
last on the list but he managed to batch with Love and Chalmers at 17. James
Jones hits it last and he’s the first guy to hit seven consecutive shots to
finish with 22. Love and Chalmers faced off for the shootout. Chalmers is up
first and in the 24 seconds he nailed four. Love comes in to displace him with
5.
In the second round, Love is
first and he “struggled” with 16. Durant is next he also “struggled” for 16 as
well. The defending champion is next and he failed to eclipse the mark.
So it’s Love and Durant in the
battle of which Kevin will win the Three-Point Shootout.
Love is up first and he made
17. Durant comes in and had a hot streak but only managed to hit 14.
Kevin Love wins.
By the way, Reggie Miller asked
Charles Barkley on what he thinks of Love’s beard. Barkley doesn’t like it.
Then Reggie Miller mentioned Lebron
James’ beard.
Barkley said LBJ is just
compensating for his balding head.
That line is funny.
***
SLAM DUNK CONTEST ***
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| Chase Budinger let P Diddy feel his "Budinger". |
Flo
Rida
sang his music and as the Slam Dunk
coverage was about to start, the feed gets cut.
I will not laugh or diss the Basketball TV coverage because deep
inside, it’s either NBA’s live feed made a booboo or someone from BTV’s TOC is
about to get fired.
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| Cedric Ceballos looks like a creepy guy in this picture. |
Anyway, screening it a few
hours later made me realize on how crappy and stale the contest is. The
commentary sans Kenny Smith is
nonexistent and also, the competitors were all cheesy. Indiana’s Paul George had the nicest of intentions making neat
tricks but the overdose of attempts is wrecking the fun of the tiff. Minnesota’s Derrick Williams had a
nightmarish time missing and fumbling and missing and fumbling ever single dunk
he tries out. I am not sold at Utah’s Jeremy
Evans winning the dunk contest because even if the late entry "double dunked" because The Mailman dunk was sour. Oh wait, I saw the clip again and I enjoyed it.
Yeah, Houston’s Chase Budinger might have done the same things as his
counterparts but he didn’t bore me. He did the sweet version of Cedric Ceballos’ dunk but in this homage,
he did it in reverse. That’s hard considering that he bungled his first attempt
which was a direct slam, and then he asked the audience to chant the digits,
and then instead of counting, he adjusted his steps to make the reverse jam.
I would have been happy if I
heard Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller,
Magic Johnson, Chris Webber, or anyone from the roundtable dissing these
guys. I would also tell the league to bring back the NBA legends as judges. Those
papers with the 10’s are rendered useless and a single fan can vote more than
thrice to get their pick to win. This has been American Idol’s problem for several years now and this has resulted
on a bunch of shitty decisions like Taylor
Hicks over Katharine McPhee and Kris Allen over Adam Lambert.
If this is the case then at
best they need to put the best people on the contest. Why didn’t Blake Griffin defend his title? Where were
Nate Robinson and Dwight Howard in
all of this? Where was Javale McGee or
DeMar Derozan or those guys that could actually make this thing exciting?
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| As Jeremy Evans slams two balls... Gordon Hayward gets hit by two balls. |
The All-Star Weekend was good
in two out of the three contests.
Maybe the NBA could do what the
PBA is doing. Let the three point
guys do their contest and the best three players will play a random cast of old
school shooters like Larry Bird, Glen
Rice, Craig Hodges, and the like.
Game over.
Team Chuck destroys Team Shaq
I saw a Shaq VS episode where Charles
Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal
were trash talking each other.
And finally they extended the
challenge to a sport where they really matter.
Ricky
Rubio’s
turnovers and faulty decisions gave Team
Chuck an 8-0 lead. Blake Griffin
stopped the bleeding with a throwdown coming from Jeremy Lin but DeMarcus
Cousins, Kyrie Irving, and Evan Turner are tearing it up on the other side.
Rubio’s game picked up at 5-minute mark. By the way, I want John Wall to shake up things because
the hell on earth Washington is receiving is destroying his promise. Right on
cue, Wall did damage. Actually there was a stretch were both teams were offensive
war horses.
That… or the lack of defensive
structure.
Oh well.
Midway in the first half, Team
Chuck leads Team Shaq, 38 to 29.
Defensive hell continued in the
final ten minutes but Team Chuck is still owning Team Shaq via Cousins’ 13
points and Turner’s 12.
After 15 minutes of slams,
passes, and no defense… I kinda stopped documenting. Too many dunks are nice
and all but I got bored midway.
When it was all said and done, Team Chuck which consists of Washington’s John Wall, Sacramento’s
DeMarcus Cousins, Indiana’s Paul George, San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard,
Philadelphia’s Evan Turner, Utah’s Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors, Minnesota’s
Derrick Williams, New Jersey’s Marshon Brooks, and Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving
defeated Team Shaq that included LA Clippers’ Blake Griffin, Minnesota’s
Ricky Rubio, Detroit’s Greg Monroe and Brandon Knight, Charlotte’s Kemba
Walker, Phoenix’s Markieff Morris, Miami’s Norris Cole, Cleveland’s Tristan
Thompson, and New York’s Landry Fields and Jeremy Lin.
Kyrie Irving, this season’s top
pick, was named MVP of the game
after scoring 34 points and making 8-of-8 from beyond the arc.
Lin, the household name, played
only eight minutes and only had two points and an assist. Blake warned him of
the stress and fatigue of being a superstar and it looks this is the perfect
time for Lin to chill.
Anyway here are the pics of the
BBVA Rising Stars Challenge.
There was a video blog in Yahoo
regarding the lack of edge of the start of the NBA All-Star Weekend. I can’t argue
with the convo but hopefully the festivities will pick up as the days go on.
Game over!
Gender drama is imba
Survivor:
One World
is definitely a cool twist in the usual Survivor
game. Like I said, I’m a huge Survivor fan and I follow every US and Philippine
edition. This version basically requires the one tribe to one-up the other
because you can clearly see who’s enjoying the camp life and who’s not. In some
ways this is like a scary version of Bahay-Bahayan.
It’s more of cops and robbers
or agawan base.
Or hell… any random game that
requires you to pester the other side.
Like I said, it’s a definitely
cool twist.
The sucky thing about One World
is the whole gender concept. While yeah, the boys versus girls mode will fit
here nicely, it is obvious that the men will win all challenges. The fact that
the guys will only offer fire if the girls offer their sexuality… and not take
it… means the girls are screwed. Add the implosion of emotions… I believe that
little by little, the sausages will outnumber and will push the women to
extinction. The only thing going for them is an annoying gay guy who would
rather bond with the girls than his tribe.
And for some reason, he’s the
ace in the hole.
Anyway, because I caught the
first two episodes of this season, I may end up watching this.
Game over.
Oscar Etiquette
With the Oscar season coming up, the winner must know the boundaries of his
celebration.
Yes, I know he/she is ecstatic
because no one thought that he/she deserves to win the plum because even if
his/her movie rotted in the box office, it was enough for the actor/actress to
get acclaim.
But there is no reason to act
like a goof.
Check out what Roberto Benigni did when he won the Best Actor and Best
Foreign Film for Life Is
Beautiful.
I like Roberto Benigni and I
think Life Is Beautiful is one of the best films ever but the guy’s speeches
are just nutty.
So this is why Kevin Kline, Mike Myers, and the cast
and crew of this skit made this.
I got this clip from Funny or Die.
Game over.
Jeremy Lin the Musical?
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| Who walks around wearing their jerseys?!? |
The Jeremy Lin phenomenon has gotten so insane (or for his fans… LINSANE) that there’s now a musical
chronicling the events (real or not) currently rocking the basketball world.
Whoever did this must know
that NBA and MUSICALS can never EVER
mix!
And I am not saying this
because I discriminate. I just think that it’s scary for me to catch White Man Can’t Jump the Musical or
hell… a Michael Jordan/His
Airness-inspired ballet recital. There is a reason why men made pro
wrestling – and that’s because we want to watch soap operas packed with
violence and scantily-clad women!
I thought Zac Efron twirling in The High School Musical was bad but at
least he had Vanessa Hudgens as
consolation. Sometimes I watch the movie on the Disney Channel only for the sake of investigating the rationale of
Disney kids transforming into little Lolitas (I am currently pointing a finger
on Lindsay Lohan).
One Tree Hill is another teen drama set
on basketball but while their men acted like sissies off-court, their antics
fared better during their games.
And don’t get me started on
Glee. Sure I have loosened my stance
on that product but I still couldn’t help but cringe at the sight of buffed
football players dancing to showtunes.
But enough of me throwing
the topic on another angle – it is Jeremy Lin time.
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| Would it be racist if I say that he is doing tai-chi? |
David Stern said that he has never
experienced such following in the NBA. I mean the hype created by Michael Jordan, Kobe
You have to watch the clip
to check it out.
I got the clip as I browsed
Youtube. Come to think of it, the
clip is so absurd that it loops to slight awesomeness. The sight of the stunt
double Lin doing badly-angled shots with his badly-angled wig is weird thing of
beauty.
Like Kevin Yee’s creation if you thought he did a nice job making this. I'll like this further if Kevin Yee will such a thing for Filipino-American Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
Game over.
Stephen Colbert's guide to Ultimate Taser Ball
My friend Vlad Guarina asked me to check out this
up and coming sport called Ultimate
Taser Ball. I kid you not – a sport of this sort exists and there are a
bunch of people who are bent on making this a worldwide sensation. Although the
clamor for the sport should exempt the Canadians
because I believe their law prohibits them to use such objects, the impressive
detail for the sport is poised to catch on.
This is like ultimate Frisbee…
but more electrifying.
Anyway, the sport got the
attention of the awesome Stephen Colbert.
I am a fan of his smashmouth and snarky style of saying important things and he
was spot-on in "seriously" reviewing this sport.
I’m going to show you how
serious he is in promoting the sport to the rest of the world.
Game over!
He-Man is sexy and he knows it
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You have noticed the Power of Grayskull.
But do you want to feel the
“tower of
grayskull
A couple of years back I
saw this clip where He-Man was singing the Four
Non Blondes’ smash hit “What’s Up”.
I think this was the first time I saw The Master
of the Universe in a pretty girly manner. As Prince Adam, he dresses a bit neon-ish. As He-Man, he fares worse. I had no idea what LMFAO is but whoever told them to write "I'm Sexy and I Know It" never thought that this would be its artistic complication!
This goes to show you that
wearing a pink blouse, white muscle-fit long sleeves, magenta leggings, and violet
brief and boots can make you sexy… and probably a tad gay.
He-Man probably played with
She-ra’s clothes when they were
growing up.
HE-MAN is SEXY AND HE KNOWS IT - watch more funny videos
I got this clip from Funny or Die.
Game over!
Heat on top: NBA Power Rankings (as of February 22, 2012)
I
have been too glued on individual achievements that I forgot about the NBA standings!
So
after two months of NBA action, here is my NBA
team rankings for the 2011-12 season.
So
here’s how my NEW rankings will go. Actually, this was an old grading system I
did when I was just a new blogger. When I was still single, I interviewed a
mama-san with regards to the “caste system” of the chicks inside a strip joint.
She said that the best chicks are dubbed STARLETS
while the up and coming starlets are called SOLO ACTS. Below the solo act are those who are called GRO and those women who won’t dare go
nude are dubbed WAITRESSES. Finally,
the deemed untouchables are singled out as CR
ATTENDANTS.
They
are those you see constantly roaming the comfort room cleaning the vomit
emitted by their wasted customers.
Now
that I have instilled to everyone the “value” of this ranking… GAME STARTS NOW!
Note: Based from the NBA
team standings as of February 22, 2012!
*** THE CR
ATTENDANTS ***
Their win-loss
records are synonymous to shit!
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| Isaiah Thomas is having an excellent week! |
30
– Charlotte
29
– Washington
28
– New Orleans Hornets – Is it me or
is the reason for Eric Gordon’s surgery is because he wants to get
surgically-removed from the Hornets?
27
– Toronto
26
– New Jersey
25
– Sacramento
*** THE WAITRESSES
***
Their win-loss
records are not enough to reach the playoffs.
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| Kyrie Irving and Chris Bosh doing ballet. |
24
– Detroit Pistons – Even if the
Pistons bungled their game against the Cavs, they have won 70 percent of their
last ten games.
23
– Milwaukee Bucks – A total opposite
to the Detroit Pistons, the Bucks have lost seven of their last ten games.
Andrew Bogut is seriously missed in this squad.
22
– Golden State
21
– Phoenix
20
– Cleveland Cavaliers – Love is in the air for Cleveland
19
– Utah Jazz – The Jazz are
struggling as of late and the injuries to their star players are keeping the
Jazz away from the West’s eighth spot.
*** GROs ***
Their win-loss
records are not enough to wow people.
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| Jeremy Lin had no choice but to smell Shelden Williams' wonderful armpit. Mmmmm! |
18
– Boston Celtics – Inasmuch as I
love my Celtics, they are in wasteland with all the negative fireworks they
keep on starting. Rajon Rondo and company must step up because they are in
danger of missing the playoffs!
17
– Minnesota
16
– New York
15
– Portland Trail Blazers – Team Walking
Wounded are still in the running this season… and it’s kind of amazing. They
must check their win-loss records though if they want to stay away from the
.500 mark.
14
– Denver Denver
13
– Memphis Grizzlies – It’s a
reversal of sorts if you look at it. Last year, Zach Randolph was carrying the
load left by Rudy Gay but now it’s the other way around. Unlike last year
though, the Grizzlies have a shot to make it big especially with Marc Gasol’s
nice showing.
*** SOLO ACTS ***
Their win-loss
records have secured their selves a playoff spot.
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| Lowry jumps in fear after his ass touched his defender's pointy thing. |
12
– Houston
11
– Atlanta
10
– Los
Angeles
9 –
Philadelphia
8 –
Indiana
7 –
Los
Angeles
*** STARLETS ***
They are the Top 6
teams of the current NBA season.
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| Luol Deng almost connected with his twin elbow to groin technique. |
6 –
Orlando Magic – The threat of Dwight
Howard leaving remains a possibility but it’s as if they had a ceasefire. The
scoring boom of Hedo Turkoglu, JJ Redick, and Ryan Anderson is giving The Daily
Double the idea of keeping his talents within the city.
5 –
Dallas
4 –
San
Antonio Portland
3 –
Chicago
2 –
Oklahoma
1 –
Miami Heat – They are by far the
hottest team in the NBA today with their seven-game win streak and their 90
percent success rate in their last ten games. Miami
is tied with Chicago
I’m
probably going to do this every two weeks. This list is easy to make… when
there are no distractions. I hope the Celtics and the Knicks increase their
wins because it’s eye-straining to see them ranked so low.
I
never fabricated the list though. All I did was rank the team’s winning
percentage from highest to lowest… so people shouldn’t judge me if they think I’m
biased.
Anyway,
until next time…
Game
over!
Jason Kidd info fail
I screen-grabbed this image
from the ever-so-knowing Yahoo Fantasy
Basketball page!
I am maintaining passable
seeding in my Yahoo league so I can pay my ESPN
Fantasy debts. I am currently 8 of 15 in my ESPN league but February is
proving to be a positive month for my charges (I bet this will continue in the
coming months). In my Yahoo league, I need to further my assists and steals
which is why I claimed Jason Kidd
from the waiver line. Kidd has been weak as of late but I am confident that a
healthy Kidd should be enough for him to break out from his current slump.
As it is, he’s been tearing
it up. As far as his steals go, he achieved a personal accomplishment by passing
Michael Jordon on the NBA career
list.
Yes, you saw it.
I wrote Michael Jordon.
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| Click to enlarge image |
While I don’t know who the
guy is, Yahoo basketball knows what they’re doing.
After all, only a messed up
mind would wrongfully spell Michael
Jordan aka the world’s most popular basketball superstar ever!
Game over!
