Well there's a second in terms of McGovern player of the Finals' history. I've lost the quad-ruled steno-pad I wrote Game 2 of the finals on. The first time being when one of my enraged Mexican friends tore my McGovern Player of the Finals archives up in a fit of jealousy. I only have two quad-ruled steno pads in the entire basement and despite being certain I used one of them during game 2, the page seems to be absent from both, so I'm not sure what happened. Regardless that's part of the reason I didn't make a post about game 2. I may have had too many Clubtails during the game as well. Although, while on the subject of this emergence of the premixed mixed-drink market, I'd like to state for the record and anyone else who might mistakenly purchase the utter trash that is Bud Lite Mixxtail's not to waste their money. As an ultra-taster with impeccable taste (especially in beverages), they're simply god awful. They clearly just copied Clubtails, ruined the ratios, then strangely raised the price yet lowered the alcohol content. Yet another reason for me to despise Anheuser-Busch as a company, aside from their inferior beer, previous sponsorship of Dale Jr. and god-awful change to their ad-campaign. The old Bud Lite ad-campaign had the guy who would slowly sing sentences normally about guys doing things in slow motion. Now there's this "up for anything" campaign. Despite the fact that every single "anything" situation on a commercial thus far, is one I would be annoyed to be involved in. I'd love to see the commercial outtakes when they find the wrong combination of person-situation. What'd be even more enjoyable would be to pick the situations people who claim they're "up for anything" end up in. Every time I see these annoying ads I always think about what it truly means to be up for everything. To me that'd entail things like being dropped in the South-Eastern area of Africa where mosquito's carry sleeping sickness near a pride of lions, being raped in prison or swimming 'till exhaustion and subsequently drowning. Anyhow, I'm not a fan of Bud Lite MixxTails.
Anyhow the remaining McGovern Player of the Finals games remains among the most intriguing, at least for me at this point, as I cannot find the sheet of quad-ruled steno-pad paper with which I judged game 2. So there's potentially a new wrinkle in how this McGovern Player of the Finals will be decided that for the first time in history, I'm technically separated from the decision, despite that I made it earlier and am utterly unaware of it or its location.
All of that being said I don't have an excuse for failing to post game 3's stats. Well really, I do. It's just not a socially acceptable excuse.
Game 3:
Cleveland:
Dellavedova: +1+2+1+1+1+1+1+3+1 (12)
James: +1+1+1+1+1+2+1+1 (9)
Jones: +3+1
Mozgov: +1+1+1+1+1 (5)
Shumpert: +1
Smith: +2+1+1
Thompson: +1+1+1+1+2 (6)
Golden State:
Barbosa:+1
Barnes:-1
Bogut:+1
Curry:+1-1-1-1+1-1+1+1-1-4+1 (-4)
Ezeli:+1+1+1+1 (4)
Green:+1
Iguodala:+1+1+1+1+1 (5)
Lee:+1+1+1 (3)
Livingston:+1
Thompson:-1-1+2+1 (1)
McGovern FAGGOT of the Game - Game 3
A. Davis
Refs -1
Riley Curry
M. Miller - 1 -2
I'll briefly say Game 3 was simultaneously frustrating and rewarding for me as a fan. I love effort play, I seem to have a soft-spot for foreign players and I dislike Curry. Even though I wanted to see Cleveland lose, seeing "Woah Delly!" shut down Curry for most of the game was enjoyable.
Game 4:
Cleveland:
Dellavedova: +2*-1+1+2+2+1 (7)
James: +4*-1-1+1-1-1 (1)
Jones: +2-1
Mozgov:+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 (7)
Shumpert: +1-1
Smith: +1-1-1-1-1 (-3)
Thompson: +1+1*+2+1
Golden State:
Barns: +1+1-1+1+1 (3)
Bogut: -2
Curry: -1-1-1-2+1+1+1 (2)
Green: +1+1+1+1-1+1+1 (5)
Iguoudala: +1+1*+1+1-1+1+1+1+1 (7)
Lee: +1+1+1-1 (2)
Livingston: +1+2+3+1 (7)
Thompson: +1+1-1+1 (2)
Game Notes:
Curry continues to disappoint yet Golden state won. Win-win. Bogut looked like trash once again - no effort. Sort of odd given his fellow country-man is being lauded by Cleveland specifically for effort and intensity. Iguodala has erupted this series. To me it's even more impressive because he's done so guarding LeBron James. If you look back at even just these playoffs alone, the player defending the other teams best player almost always has an offensive production decrease. Iguodala's has increased while guarding the best player in world - supposedly. I also enjoyed a former fantasy basketball player of mine in Mozgov succeed. Similarly I'm also enjoying J.R. Smith going ice cold just in time to remind viewers why he was traded, comes off the bench, and why he can't ever truly be trusted.
*Dellavedova's first +2 was because he was montaged with Men at Work - Land Down Under. Awesome Eighties strike again.
*James's first +4 was on that down-right sick, dare I say Sabonis-like pass in the first quarter, when he hopped up and did a no-look over the head back-pass to Mozgov. For the purpose of perspective, I believe this is the first time I rewarded a star player, aside from Ray Allen, anything above a 3. The Cavs may have lost the game but so far I consider that play the best of the entire Finals.
*Iguodala's point came when T. Thompson actually came up and stuffed him. He actually tried to approach T. Thompson afterward and say "nice play" but was subsequently totally ignored. Sportsmanship.
*And the opposite side of the formerly described play was T. Thompson, totally flouting the new mentality of "let's everybody get along," and straight up giving a non-verbal fuck-off to Iguodala. Asshole move, but totally hilarious and frankly totally appropriate. I actually prefer anger, discourse and bad sportsman. They're competitive - and fans pay to see competition. Teams that dislike one another usually produce both competitively and rating wise, the best series.
- Game 4 has been the first ever 4-player tie in McGovern Player of the Finals history. To make things interesting, I normally don't force a tiebreaker (and by force a tiebreaker I mean decide myself) ,in the earlier Finals games. This is in hopes of someone breaking through with a 2nd or 3rd game, depending on how the series unfolds.
McGovern FAGGOT of the Finals:
A. Davis +1
Refs -1-1-1
Riley Curry
M. Miller
Idiot Female Security Officer - 3
ABC Sound Crew -3
Cavs Fans -10
FAGGOT NOTES:
These notes involve a few changes. Someone on my FAGGOT list is actually receiving a positive point, albeit just one. One unprecedented change is that from now on and the first time in history I'm going to actually remove (as opposed to always adding) someone from the much maligned FAGGOT list. That man is Anthony Davis. I never truly disliked him but as a matter of principle I won't sit idly bye while Donkey Kong's dominion is sullied. Additionally the PIXELS commercial's seem to be rotating based on old arcade games. Thus he is constantly against different opponents. Fortunately for him, he was up against and defeated the centipede - my most rivaled and despised fiend (not the game - the arthropod). Of course, it goes without saying if he disrespects DK again, he's back on the list immediately.
When LeBron fell down and smashed his head on that camera there were several security guards / local cops that tried to "contain" the situation by attempting to remove camera men from the immediate vicinity. This utterly infuriated me. Not because I wanted to see LeBron injured or bleeding but because anyone would be fucking stupid enough to think they could actually prevent filming from probably a dozen angles from the NBA alone all focused on the court and LeBron. This moronic bitch actually put her hand in a camera and said "you can't film here." Literally the second after this happened they switched to a stadium camera and not only caught but heard everything. The sheer stupidity involved in this incident just enraged me. How could you work security at a place like that and actually think you could do anything that makes a difference is hilarious. However trying to stop the happenings from being filmed is maybe one of the only more moronic things than thinking you're going to do anything if the fans decide to storm the court.
I subtracted 3 from the ABC sound crew because they continue to play a remixed version of Style by Taylor Swift that's god awful. I think this will be a recurring penalty as there's no reason to play that pseudo-melodic garbage.
Cavs fans - or should I say Lebron fans. He's brought his true talent back to Cleveland. And despite his athletic ability and basketball acumen, his greatest talent is marketing. He's followed MJ's market-myself strategy and modified it in our current era of millisecond updates on everything and expanded. Unfortunately this the is the way social justice warriors, rad-fems and the average bandwagon fan will interact. So you have groups of polarized people who are ironically enough extremely impressionable and constantly watching social media, typically for something wrong (or to know how/what to think for fuck's sake). I'd consider that to be nearly the archetype for the worst type of sports fan. They probably don't know much about LBJ aside from his reputation, ESPN and maybe his Twitter feed. They clearly know nothing about what happened to the Spurs when LeBron's team came back and won in 2013 with Ray Allen's sick shot or they wouldn't have left. Golden State's fans actually "took over" their arena audibly because so many people left and the crowd leftover were specter-taters. LeBron is wounded, bleeding, stays in the game - and as a fan you leave early - disrespectful. The worst part, though, is the fact that all the Cavs fans had shirts listing the number of people in the arena then like "20,153 All In." Then a third of them leave halfway through the 4th quarter. They left,and they're not even all in the stadium. They're first out (or off if we're talking bandwagons). I've never liked Lebron but I really feel sorry for him regarding his live fandom. I can't imagine how much revenue he earns from fans purely from advertising on social media but unless he's winning in a rout he can't seem to hold a home crowd.
Anyhow the remaining McGovern Player of the Finals games remains among the most intriguing, at least for me at this point, as I cannot find the sheet of quad-ruled steno-pad paper with which I judged game 2. So there's potentially a new wrinkle in how this McGovern Player of the Finals will be decided that for the first time in history, I'm technically separated from the decision, despite that I made it earlier and am utterly unaware of it or its location.
All of that being said I don't have an excuse for failing to post game 3's stats. Well really, I do. It's just not a socially acceptable excuse.
Game 3:
Cleveland:
Dellavedova: +1+2+1+1+1+1+1+3+1 (12)
James: +1+1+1+1+1+2+1+1 (9)
Jones: +3+1
Mozgov: +1+1+1+1+1 (5)
Shumpert: +1
Smith: +2+1+1
Thompson: +1+1+1+1+2 (6)
Golden State:
Barbosa:+1
Barnes:-1
Bogut:+1
Curry:+1-1-1-1+1-1+1+1-1-4+1 (-4)
Ezeli:+1+1+1+1 (4)
Green:+1
Iguodala:+1+1+1+1+1 (5)
Lee:+1+1+1 (3)
Livingston:+1
Thompson:-1-1+2+1 (1)
McGovern FAGGOT of the Game - Game 3
A. Davis
Refs -1
Riley Curry
M. Miller - 1 -2
I'll briefly say Game 3 was simultaneously frustrating and rewarding for me as a fan. I love effort play, I seem to have a soft-spot for foreign players and I dislike Curry. Even though I wanted to see Cleveland lose, seeing "Woah Delly!" shut down Curry for most of the game was enjoyable.
Game 4:
Cleveland:
Dellavedova: +2*-1+1+2+2+1 (7)
James: +4*-1-1+1-1-1 (1)
Jones: +2-1
Mozgov:+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 (7)
Shumpert: +1-1
Smith: +1-1-1-1-1 (-3)
Thompson: +1+1*+2+1
Golden State:
Barns: +1+1-1+1+1 (3)
Bogut: -2
Curry: -1-1-1-2+1+1+1 (2)
Green: +1+1+1+1-1+1+1 (5)
Iguoudala: +1+1*+1+1-1+1+1+1+1 (7)
Lee: +1+1+1-1 (2)
Livingston: +1+2+3+1 (7)
Thompson: +1+1-1+1 (2)
Game Notes:
Curry continues to disappoint yet Golden state won. Win-win. Bogut looked like trash once again - no effort. Sort of odd given his fellow country-man is being lauded by Cleveland specifically for effort and intensity. Iguodala has erupted this series. To me it's even more impressive because he's done so guarding LeBron James. If you look back at even just these playoffs alone, the player defending the other teams best player almost always has an offensive production decrease. Iguodala's has increased while guarding the best player in world - supposedly. I also enjoyed a former fantasy basketball player of mine in Mozgov succeed. Similarly I'm also enjoying J.R. Smith going ice cold just in time to remind viewers why he was traded, comes off the bench, and why he can't ever truly be trusted.
*Dellavedova's first +2 was because he was montaged with Men at Work - Land Down Under. Awesome Eighties strike again.
*James's first +4 was on that down-right sick, dare I say Sabonis-like pass in the first quarter, when he hopped up and did a no-look over the head back-pass to Mozgov. For the purpose of perspective, I believe this is the first time I rewarded a star player, aside from Ray Allen, anything above a 3. The Cavs may have lost the game but so far I consider that play the best of the entire Finals.
*Iguodala's point came when T. Thompson actually came up and stuffed him. He actually tried to approach T. Thompson afterward and say "nice play" but was subsequently totally ignored. Sportsmanship.
*And the opposite side of the formerly described play was T. Thompson, totally flouting the new mentality of "let's everybody get along," and straight up giving a non-verbal fuck-off to Iguodala. Asshole move, but totally hilarious and frankly totally appropriate. I actually prefer anger, discourse and bad sportsman. They're competitive - and fans pay to see competition. Teams that dislike one another usually produce both competitively and rating wise, the best series.
- Game 4 has been the first ever 4-player tie in McGovern Player of the Finals history. To make things interesting, I normally don't force a tiebreaker (and by force a tiebreaker I mean decide myself) ,in the earlier Finals games. This is in hopes of someone breaking through with a 2nd or 3rd game, depending on how the series unfolds.
McGovern FAGGOT of the Finals:
A. Davis +1
Refs -1-1-1
Riley Curry
M. Miller
Idiot Female Security Officer - 3
ABC Sound Crew -3
Cavs Fans -10
FAGGOT NOTES:
These notes involve a few changes. Someone on my FAGGOT list is actually receiving a positive point, albeit just one. One unprecedented change is that from now on and the first time in history I'm going to actually remove (as opposed to always adding) someone from the much maligned FAGGOT list. That man is Anthony Davis. I never truly disliked him but as a matter of principle I won't sit idly bye while Donkey Kong's dominion is sullied. Additionally the PIXELS commercial's seem to be rotating based on old arcade games. Thus he is constantly against different opponents. Fortunately for him, he was up against and defeated the centipede - my most rivaled and despised fiend (not the game - the arthropod). Of course, it goes without saying if he disrespects DK again, he's back on the list immediately.
When LeBron fell down and smashed his head on that camera there were several security guards / local cops that tried to "contain" the situation by attempting to remove camera men from the immediate vicinity. This utterly infuriated me. Not because I wanted to see LeBron injured or bleeding but because anyone would be fucking stupid enough to think they could actually prevent filming from probably a dozen angles from the NBA alone all focused on the court and LeBron. This moronic bitch actually put her hand in a camera and said "you can't film here." Literally the second after this happened they switched to a stadium camera and not only caught but heard everything. The sheer stupidity involved in this incident just enraged me. How could you work security at a place like that and actually think you could do anything that makes a difference is hilarious. However trying to stop the happenings from being filmed is maybe one of the only more moronic things than thinking you're going to do anything if the fans decide to storm the court.
I subtracted 3 from the ABC sound crew because they continue to play a remixed version of Style by Taylor Swift that's god awful. I think this will be a recurring penalty as there's no reason to play that pseudo-melodic garbage.
Cavs fans - or should I say Lebron fans. He's brought his true talent back to Cleveland. And despite his athletic ability and basketball acumen, his greatest talent is marketing. He's followed MJ's market-myself strategy and modified it in our current era of millisecond updates on everything and expanded. Unfortunately this the is the way social justice warriors, rad-fems and the average bandwagon fan will interact. So you have groups of polarized people who are ironically enough extremely impressionable and constantly watching social media, typically for something wrong (or to know how/what to think for fuck's sake). I'd consider that to be nearly the archetype for the worst type of sports fan. They probably don't know much about LBJ aside from his reputation, ESPN and maybe his Twitter feed. They clearly know nothing about what happened to the Spurs when LeBron's team came back and won in 2013 with Ray Allen's sick shot or they wouldn't have left. Golden State's fans actually "took over" their arena audibly because so many people left and the crowd leftover were specter-taters. LeBron is wounded, bleeding, stays in the game - and as a fan you leave early - disrespectful. The worst part, though, is the fact that all the Cavs fans had shirts listing the number of people in the arena then like "20,153 All In." Then a third of them leave halfway through the 4th quarter. They left,and they're not even all in the stadium. They're first out (or off if we're talking bandwagons). I've never liked Lebron but I really feel sorry for him regarding his live fandom. I can't imagine how much revenue he earns from fans purely from advertising on social media but unless he's winning in a rout he can't seem to hold a home crowd.
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