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Since the Orlando Magic swept the Bobcats in round 1, I had time to focus on the other matchups in the NBA playoffs. I haven’t spent as much time watching the NBA as I would have liked recently, so it was fun to have this time to see the players I used to watch either in the NBA or college again.
For somewhat selfish reasons, I’ve been rooting for the Milwaukee Bucks in the series v Atlanta. While Al Horford is my favorite Gator in the NBA, I wanted the Bucks to break the 2-2 tie, but still hoped he would have a good game. Luckily, that is exactly what happened. The Bucks were keeping it close the entire time I watched through the first half. While I refused to switch the channel to the Habs v Caps game going on at the same time (more on that later), I did lose focus for a bit in the final minutes of that crucial game 7. Apparently since I wasn’t giving them all my attention, the Bucks decided to slack a bit, resulting in a 10 point deficit when I went back to watching their game. Oops. Once I realized my mistake and focused on them again, the Bucks scored 14 unanswered points to take the lead and go on to win. Al did have an amazing game, though, and ended with 25 points and 11 rebounds, many of which came at crucial times ie: ending ATL’s scoreless nearly 4 minutes.
Watching the NHL playoffs hasn’t been quite as fun since my Canes aren’t playing. (Is it bad I miss my boys already?) I’ve decided to be pro-Habs for playoffs, partly because they had the power to knock evil Alex Ovechkin out of the running, but mostly because I have several friends who are fans & their fan base seems the least pretentious of those I am familiar with (namely NJ, Sabres, Boston, Caps, Penguins). Similar to the powers I discovered I have for the NBA playoffs, I was watching the Magic game during the Caps v Habs game 6, only switching for a moment at halftime to see how things were going. Immediately upon putting the game on, the Caps scored their first (and only) goal, so I switched back to NBA as quickly as possible to minimize the damage. Convinced that was my doing, I refused to watch game 7 and followed on espn.com instead, watching gamecast in the final minutes (when I messed up the juju for the Bucks, apparently). I knew Halak had held the Caps scoreless again to this point, making it 1-0 in the 3rd period, and checked in just in time to see both teams score once and the Habs pull off the win to advance to round 2. I was way excited to see the Habs go on, and possibly even more excited to see that the dirty-playing Ovechkin (or “OvenChicken” as he is affectionately known on the Canes message boards) would be going home. I’m pro-Flyers, too, for the same reasons I chose to follow the Habs, so should the two meet in the Finals, I’m not sure what I’ll do…
As for the Sox, they were doing better since I left my Ellsbury shirt behind in Gainesville. Mind you, “better” is still not great, but if it ends in a W, I’ll take it. With all the playoff games going on in the NBA and NHL, and the lack of televised Sox games anyway, I haven’t been focused on them yet. Though maybe that’s the problem… :)
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