Originally, I was planning on making a post a day or two after game one of the finals happened, to inform my massive reader-base on which player received the much anticipated McGovern Player of the Game award for game one - And the subsequent points other players received. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do so since the page I had tracked the stats on was pilfered from my McGovern Player of the Game spiral notepad. Since I had been inebriated while watching game one, I originally thought I might have put it on the wrong notepad. After searching and subsequently discovering every other notepad in the basement I ruled out the already unlikely scenario that I had lost it. Then I thought back to the last time I had seen it and had an epiphany; I had been trying to figure out who would have a motive and/or access to my records when it hit me. History repeats itself... In the past a certain Mexican friend of mine had obviously been jealous of my highly accoladed finals picks, even to the extent of tearing all my previous records up out of frustration, obviously for my higher understanding for the intricacies of the NBA and sports in general. This same feaster of fajitas was also present the night before I noticed the page missing. I even remembered him picking up the notebook and commenting on my points and picks. After I realized the assailant's identity, I wasn't angry; just merely dissappointed. Luckily, I remembered whom exactly the McGovern Player of the Game (Game 1) was - Kobe Bryant, with a score of +8. Unluckily, I can't list the scores of all the other players at this time.
On to game two... Game two was definately more entertaining than game one in it's entirety. I'm pretty sure between the third and fourth quarters neither team deviated from a lead of less than 3 points. Although I want the Lakers to win the series, I was rooting for the Magic; I'd like it to go to at least six or seven games, for entertainment purposes - and because the Magic having been disrespected this entire post-season, deserve some (respect). Although respect isn't entirely deserved from basically anyone on either team given that the referees this season are blind, retarded, inconsistent or flat out don't know the rules. It annoys the shit out of me that this post season - which I've watched the vast majority of has probably been the best post season I've seen in a long time and yet the calls are utterly contrary. Hopefully that's not a catch 22 scenario. Early in the playoffs there were so many flagrants - obvious ones - the refs needed to 'crack down' to an extent, but now they're just calling fouls on everything and every quarter gets essentially doubled; it's retarded.
LeBron. Yes the same over-rated football player who is now watching the finals from his couch rather than in person. Yes, I said football player on purpose. He is the consensus 'best player in the NBA," yet the majority - I'd even go as far as 65% - of the time he drives to the basket he simultaneously can't and isn't trying to score. He just runs, as fast as he can at anyone within the supposed restricted area near the rim and... decks them, as hard as he can. It's stupid. He can essentially draw a foul, at any moment of any game, any time he wants; especially because he's LeBron James; his stardom only intensifies this fact. This is yet another reason the Kobe vs. LeBron debate ends swiftly in the Bryant camp; Kobe doesn't have to resort to this to score. I was so frustrated at LeBron's practice of this - not that I blame him, if the refs are going to continually call it why wouldn't he - in the Eastern Conference Finals I created a newfound category in the McGovern Player of the Finals just for him. It's also an inaugural in that it's the first one not to be related to person actually playing in the finals. Everytime LeBron's name is mentioned during the finals, he gets a score of -1 on the McGovern Player of the Game scoring card. Originally, I thought I'd only give him a -1 when an announcer or player mentioned his name, but after seeing those fucking annoying Kobe/LeBron puppet commercials I decided he should be repremanded for every single time. Especially because his dumb-failure ass is sitting on his couch and watching every single one of those commercials, getting a much deserved...
Reality Check.
PS. Here is the part I'm sure you've all been waiting for, the scores for McGovern Player of the Game - Game 2:
Lakers:
Ariza: +4
Gaso: +4
Bynum: 0
Bryant: +7
Fisher: +4
Odom: +7
Walton: 0
Farmar: +1
Vujacic: 0
Brown: 0
Magic:
Alston: +1
Lewis: +12**
Howard: +8
Turkoglu: +9
Lee: 0
Pietrus: +2
Battie: 0
Gortat: 0
Nelson: +1
Redick: +1
LeBron: -24***
*These are overall/final scores.
**Bold+Italics indicates McGovern Player of the Game
***Jeff Gordon
