June Hoops

Somewhat listening to various talking faces on radio and television pontificating on the NBA finals.

And they rarely say anything but the most blatantly obvious.

And they always talk like whoever won the last game is in total control of the series.

But the fact is that what appears to be an advantage one day, often becomes a disadvantage the next because things like three-point shooting are far from being predictable and consistent and some players who makes 5/6 today may quite possibly make 1/7 the next day and vice versa with the other guy representing the other town and wearing a different jersey and in this age of hoops, that becomes a big part of the difference.

And these talking faces keep asking the same pointless questions and get the same meaningless responses from the appointed genius's and gurus and often others who have done far more talking than ever playing of the game and gaining an understanding of how these things really work where there are humans involved and not robots and there's ten billion different movements that occur in each ten second span between the ten players on the court and replicating the same exact steps you made the previous time and possessing the exact same physical and mental frame of mind, attitude and aggressiveness which resulted in success 30 seconds ago is next to impossible the next time up or down the court. 

And extending that mindset to two days later is often more difficult than it was when it was impossible so nothing remains the same and everything is constantly changing.  

        (And I guess that's true not only in basketball but for life in general.)

And when this series was made and everyone was saying OKC (Seattle) was the huge favorite to win and I was laughing, thinking that Indiana had just as good a chance as OKC (ummmm, I mean Seattle) ..... and I want so badly to say: "I told you so" but I can't do that because I never actually told anyone.

6/19 edit .... And now there's going to be a game seven. And after nearly all the talking faces were prognosticating a four-game sweep.