Tonight:  College Wolf

Game:  Cavs over Celtics 88-77.
        Series tied 2-2.

College Wolf here bringing you the somber KG Cast - Episode 9.  The Celtics lost both road games in Cleveland, allowing the Cleveland LeBrons to come back and tie up the series two games a piece.  I've got the game recap in regards to what went right and what went wrong, in my expert, humble opinion.  Is Ray Allen toast?  Could the Celtics actually lose this series?  All that and more from Around the NBA.  Check it out.

Tonight:  College Wolf

Game:  Celtics over Cavs 89-73, Game 2.
        Celtics take 2-0 series lead.

College Wolf is again soloing the KG Cast - Episode 8.  Bonk and DeROK are both on vacation, but once they get back we'll have some more "Co-Casts."  So... you are all going to have to tough it out with me until then.  After a slow start, the Celtics came back to utterly dominate the Cavs in every facet of the game.  The 15 point final margin was closer than the game truly was.  LeBron couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, going 6 for 24 from the field.  LeBron is now shooting 8 of 42 on the series.  If he doesn't turn things around soon the Cavs are toast.  Lastly, I also go around the NBA with action from last nights games' and some other NBA tidbits.  Check it out.

P.S. Since the "Comment" section does not seem to appear for my podcast posts, please feel free to head into the forums and comment in those threads.  All people are welcome... as are any  thoughts/suggestions/"helpful" critiques.

Tonight:  College Wolf

Game:  Celtics over Cavs 76-72, Game 1.
        Celtics take 1-0 series lead.

College Wolf is rolling solo again for KG Cast - Episode 7.  I promise I'm getting the hang of this thing, and its definitely much better (and smoother) than my first solo podcast. The Boston Celtics took Game 1 in the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight. KG took over in crunch time, leading the Celtics to an extremely hard fought victory, 76-72. Almost all the other big stars suffered in tonight's game, resulting in horrible efforts from Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and LeBron James.  Also, I go Around The NBA and discuss last night's games, which resulted in the Detroit Pistons and New Orleans Hornets both taking 2-0 series' leads over the Orlando Magic and defending champion San Antonio Spurs, respectively. Check it out.

 Chris Paul Deserves the MVP Award This Season...

Word on the street is that Kobe Bryant will be winning his first ever league MVP award this season.  Do I think this is the correct choice?  Hell and no I don't.  In a season where you could make legitimate arguments for four different players (KG, LeBron, CP3, Kobe), Kobe would have been my last choice out of the "Big Four."  Of the said stars, here's how I personally ranked them with my Blogger MVP/ROY vote:  1) KG, 2) CP3, 3) LeBron, 4) Kobe.   It's not so much that I hate Kobe Bryant, but I just don't think he deserved it this season (more on that later.)  I would like to say, I voted before the regular season was over, and was slightly swayed by Bill Simmons "KG4MVP Love Fest" article.   Upon further review and if I could do it again, I think I would now go Paul first and KG second.  Regardless, any of these four guys would have probably won the award the past 3 seasons... that's how amazing they all have been playing.

Apropos of nothing, today is Chris Paul's 23rd birthday.  What does this have to do with anything you ask?  Well, first off, I can't believe this young stud is only 23 years old.  He plays like an established veteran, and gun to my head, I'd say he's the best PG in the entire league.  Also, it happens to be "Chris Paul Appreciation Day."  So, I am comprising this article in honor of his birthday, and making a case as to why Kobe Bryant is the wrongful MVP on the Association.    

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College Wolf and Bonk's first Co-Podcast Ever!!!!!!!

Unfortunately we are not bringing everyone our first co-podcast under better circumstances, such as a Celtics series clenching win, but we'll have to make due. The Boston Celtics lost a heartbreaking Game 6 tonight down in the dirty, dirty ATL to the Hawks, 103-100. CW and Bonk have all the hard-hitting insight and analysis coming through your speakers. It looks like the series will be heading back to Boston on Sunday. As a bonus, we've got analysis of the last first round games, as well as predictions and insight for all the Round 2 matchups. Check us out.

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T-Wolves -vs- Seattle Supersonics (3.14.08)

BOXSCORE:

http://www.nba.com/games/20080314/MINSEA/boxscore.html

 
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So I was going to watch the game last night and do one of my typical "Musings of a Wolves Fan" articles.  However, that was not going to be happening since apparently college hockey takes precedence over the NBA.  Granted, it was a playoff game going into overtime... but still.  How many people watch the NHL, let alone college hockey?  I was going to say something about the low viewership ratings, but then again, multiple Wolves telecasts have recieved less than 1 market share this season.   For the record, 1 market share is only approximately 16,000something people.  So, it's not the like the Wolves have been attracting huge crowds either.  Even with all that said, I can't believe we were forced to watch college freakin hockey last night instead of the Wolves.  The game tonight against Portland isn't on TV (and I knew that), so it was doubly pissing me off.  Also, some posters in the forum informed us that apparently they couldn't watch the Wolves game last night either, even on DirectTV League Pass.  I'm no technician, but I'm about 99.999% sure that was directly related to the fact that I was sitting at home in my living room trying to stay sane while watching nearly 30 minutes of exceedingly boring overtime college hockey.  In the downtime between the first and second overtimes of the hockey game, they showed the Wolves game on a very small picture in picture.  The other box on the screen besides the Wolves?  A screen showing the fans sitting in their seats waiting for the second overtime to start.  What a complete farce.  Couldn't they have just shown the Wolves game fullscreen for the 15 minute overtime (or however long it is?) 

When the el-lamo college hockey game was finally over, it switched over to the Wolves with about 7 minutes remaining in the third quarter.  At this point I was half-awake and it was extremely tough to really get into the game, being that I had missed the first 30 minutes.  I didn't focus on the game as raptly as I typically would, because I was undecided about whether or not I would actually do this article.  The more I got thinking about it, the more mad I was that we missed so much of the game for some lame college hockey game.  Also, there is no game on TV tonight... I might write my congressman. 


The game was somewhat close what I finally got to start watching.  Personally, I didn't think a whole lot of defense was played in the second half, but from what I read by one of our forum posters and a short game recap, apparently the first half was the "no defense" half.  Still, the teams scored a combined 117 points in the first half compared to 120 total points in the second half.  It doesn't look like there was much defense being played at any point in the game.  It wasn't long after I started watching in the third that the Wolves pulled away.  The Sonics were in foul trouble and we were abusing them at the free throw line.  The Wolves attempted 16 total free throws in the third quarter alone.  According to the recap, the Wolves scored 10 straight points from the line at one point.  The Sonics made a half-hearted comeback attempt at the very end of the game, getting within 5 or so at one point.  Typically I wouldn't have been worried about that, except they did come back and beat us Sunday night under the exact same premise.


With the win, the Wolves no longer have the worst road record in the league... and also avoided a season sweep by Seattle that would have been the first in 11 years.

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Blogger MVP/ROY Rankings Round 8

TWolvesBlog was honored to host this round's NBA MVP and ROY Blogpoll. The rankings are comprised of votes by a highly esteemed panel of bloggers who throw darts to determine their picks every two weeks.  Points are granted for each vote in a descending scale thus a first place vote in the MVP rankings counted for ten points, second place was good for nine points, third place counted for eight and so on. In the ROY rankings a first place vote counted for five points as only five rookies are ranked.  Second place gets four points, and so on.

Our esteemed panel:

College Wolf from TWolves Blog (Bonk from TWolvesblog is voting and commenting in my stead for this edition, being that I am running things.)
Lee and Dave from The Dream Shake
David from 20 Second Time Out
Adam from Raptors HQ
Spartacus from 3 Shades of Blue
Seth from Posting and Toasting
Don from With Malice...
Tom from Sactown Royalty
Josh from Dinosty
Steve and Tom from CelticsBlog
Mike from Bullets Forever
Ben from Third Quarter Collapse
Jeremy from Pick Axe and Roll
Brett from Queen City Hoops
The scholars from We Rite Goode
Matt and Corndogg from Hardwood Paroxysm
Tom from Indy Cornrows
Jeramey from The Bratwurst
Ricky from Sixers 4 Guidos (He tried to participate but his votes/emails kept getting swallowed up in a mystic blogospherial void.)

The man, the myth, the legend... Alex from Brew Hoop

MVP voting is done on a 10 point scale, for the rookies its 5 points.  We had a total of 20 participants for this eighth edition.

To check out previous rounds of voting, and the results:

Round 1: Hosted by Brewhoop
Round 2: Hosted by Clips Nation
Round 3: Hosted by 3 Shades of Blue
Round 4: Hosted by Sixers 4 Guidos
Round 5: Hosted by Pick Axe and Roll
Round 6: Hosted by Hardwood Paroxysm
Round 7: Hosted by Celticsblog 

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  College Wolf's Open Mailbag...

I’m stoked to be bringing this to you all again. Thanks in advance to everyone that submitted questions for this edition of the Mailbag. Keep em coming and I will gladly answer. Anyhow, as usual there is a very diverse variety of topics from: HOW do we improve this team’s future, Does Chris Richard have a place in our team’s future, Foye or McCants, Big Al vs KG, NBA2K 2008, Baron “The Bearded One” Davis, the hotter supermodel, and… Who Wins a Timberwolves Royal Rumble!  Until next time…

Feel free to leave any comments and/or email me questions for the next Mailbag. ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )  

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