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February 3, 2007

Sonics Lose, Bulls Gawk At Dance Team

And here I thought I was going to complain about Ray Allen getting snubbed for the All-Star Team

I expected that today's post-Sonics-game post would be go roughly like this: Ray Allen got totally screwed out of the All-Star game because he's not flashy enough and, as a result, I am beginning to believe that the national sporting press really does have a big-market bias and that no one cares about C@L and the Pacific Northwest. I would emphasize my point by pointing to his stats over the past month: 30.4 ppg in the month of January (26.7 ppg for the season) on 49 percent shooting, 42.3 percent from three, and 4.8 assists per game. I would say that it's all the more impressive in the context of Rashard Lewis's absence and the fact that other teams realize that Ray is going to take pretty much all of the shots in the fourth quarter (he's been torching people regardless). And I would complete the story by discussing the huge game that Ray had against the Bulls -- just to prove the doubters wrong.

It didn't really go like that.

Ray had 29 against the Bulls, but it was on 28 shots (9 for 28 for the game), and he really couldn't get anything going in the fourth quarter. I thought his new orange shoes (below) would give him special powers, but it didn't so much work out. The Sonics lost, and they went relatively quietly.

Tip of the cap to Kirk Hinrich (star of both my imaginary basketball teams, The C@L SoonToBeOkies, and Bobby Porntastico, respectively), who was up in Ray's grill all day and clearly had him him off his game. While it's always charming to check out one of your imaginary basketball dudes in person, I would have preferred if Hinrich would have been less effective at playing great defense off the ball, since it (a) is pretty much the reason the Supes lost and (b) you don't get any imaginary basketball points for fighting through double screens.

So instead of talking about the game (which was mostly unremarkable), I'm going to make fun of the Bulls. You know how people complain that sometimes NBA players don't seem to be completely focused on the game -- even when they're playing? Right. So there's a timeout midway through the fourth quarter, which means a TV timeout and some on-court interlude entertainment. In this case, the Sonics Dance Team. And instead of huddling to talk about basketball, the Bulls opt to just shamelessly stare at the Dance Team: