I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT A LOT!

I LIKE IT, I LOVE IT, I WANT SOME MORE OF IT!

You just can't beat this time of year for hoops fans. It just doesn't get any better. I'm heading off to Nashville Thursday morning (if my ticket gets here tomorrow like its supposed to) for the SEC tournament. I figure I will at least stay through Friday night, which would give me 8 games to watch in 2 days, and more than likely at least 2 Razorback games. I will stay as long as the Hogs keep winning. However, if the Hogs lose to Florida Friday night, I'll probably head out early Saturday morning and start the drive to Little Rock to catch the 94' rematch state title game! Maybe I need to work a Grizzlies game in in Memphis this weekend too, you know, just so I can go for the hat trick (NBA, college, high school). Why not?!?

THE SEC Tournament & "The Goon"

Not real excited about Arkansas having to play Florida in the 2nd round. They are probably the team I would  least like to play in the SEC right now, even though they aren't red hot. They just have the most talent in my opinion. I would much rather play Kentucky, even LSU or Tennessee. Florida is going to be a hard game. I predict that the winner of the Arkansas/Florida game wins the whole tournament. The 1st round matchup the Hogs play with Georgia ought to be a cakewalk. A rough cakewalk that is! I'm predicting a fight in this game! I'm dead serious! These teams played the other day, and Dave Bliss of Georgia was throwing cheap shots and elbows the whole game. You can believe Bliss will be doing more of that Thursday night. Bliss is that "roid freak" that probably drinks before his games, and then goes out to the local laid-back pickup game and takes someone's legs out from under then on a fast-break layup. I predict in the 2nd half a fight breaks out between Bliss and Vincent Hunter. It will probably be Georgia's last game of the year, so Bliss figures he has nothing to lose, and will plant a few cheapshots in before the game is over.  I think one game, Bliss got 5 fouls in 5 minutes of action. They only put him in for one reason! ......as John Cheaney of Temple did last year, he pointed down to his big guy at the end of the bench and said, "bring in the goon"! The goon came in and fouled a guy real hard, and ended that guys career!  

AAAAA STATE FINALS - JHS vs LR Parkview

I've got mixed emotions about this one. When the team I was on won state back in 94' it was in Little Rock and it was against Parkview. The situations between the two teams are a lot alike! This team also lost late in the regular season like the 94 team did, and this team caught fire in the state tournament just like the 94' team, blowing everyone out on their path to the finals. JHS hasn't been back to the state title game since, and I don't even think they have played Parkview since (Parkview pulled a John Calaperi & quit scheduling JHS after we beat them 3 out of 4 over a 2 year period). I know if I end up driving over to the game Saturday, I will no doubt be rooting hard for JHS. It's impossible to pull for LR Parkview....afterall, they are an art school and get to recruit players/students(yeah right, they use it to get players), and they were a national powerhouse for way too long. They think they are bad cause they have the Globetrotter look going in there red, white, & blue uniforms with stars on the shorts. Let any high school get to recruit the best talent from a city of 300,000 and I bet they can come up with a good squad too..................on the flip side, if this JHS team wins. The 94' team will have been forgotten. We will be "a bunch of has beens".  Our championship team picture that hangs in the lobby of the gym, will get taken down, and probably moved into one of the Vo-Tech rooms where it sits on the ground in the corner of a classroom facing the chalkboard.  You know this team will get sweeter championship rings. You know Dr. Garner's gonna throw some extra jack in there to make sure their rings are sweeter and bigger than the Steelers Super Bowl rings! It's gonna make are 94' rings look like they came fresh out the bottom of the Cookie Crisp Cereal Box.  I wouldn't even be suprised that if JHS wins, and a week later I turn on the T.V. and see Matt Garner in a "I"m going to Disney" commercial! Wouldn't suprise me at all!...............so if JHS does lose, it won't be all that bad! HAHA!!

AA State Title: BIC vs Altheimer

That's right, BIC is playing Altheimer. I always knew there was an Arkansas school for the deaf, but I didn't know there was one for the kids with Alzheimers. Aight, just kidding!! Anway, I just wanted to mention BIC and Brooks Taylor because Steve Gibson loves his BIC basketball and his Brooks Taylor.

Is that Rod Smart or Brooks Taylor??!?!

STEVE IS SCHEDULED TO WORK SATURDAY

This is driving him nuts! He's hasn't missed a JHS game all year, and now they make the state finals and he has to work...... and he can't ask anybody to fill in for him because he already did that a few times last week so that he could drive to the state tournament and watch JHS play....... he had to beg another to cover his Saturday shift for him.  Why do I have the feeling, Steve is going to get desperate come Saturday morning and be "that guy" that calls in with the worst lie and most "I'm obviously lying" excuse ever invented. Surely, he won't use that "lets make up a dead family member" excuse!!!............on 2nd thought?!