Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 8:51 am  |  25 responses

L.O.N. — Blame It On The…

Va-a-a-a-a-an Gun-dy.

by Shannon Booher

Line Of The Night AKA Near Larry Bird Of The Night:

Paul Peezy — 19 points, 9 boards, 8 assists, 2 steals

It was Peezy’s turn to put in a Rondo-esque all-around game, and the resulting win may prove to be the turning point of the series.

Worst Of The Night:

Dwight Howard — 12 points on 10 shots

Well, at least Doug Collins must have been a little happy as he averaged more than a point a shot — the holy grail of stats for Collins. Maybe the Magic can still rally, but their post-game comments had the feel of a team that had it’s heart torn it oStan Van Gundyut. Rashard Lewis essentially calling his teammates stupid, and then Dwight Howard was damn near Jamie Foxx on the mic, singing: “Blame it on Dwight, blame it on the Skip, blame it on the Va-a-a-an Gun-dy.”

Contraction Club Of The Night:

Houston Rockets — 78 points vs. the Lake Show

And a 40-point shot to the dome, kid. The Lakers arguably came out of this game looking worse than the Rockets, though. This is, um, fairly solid proof that Game 4 was a complete and utter “mail it in” situation for the Kobettes.

6th Man Of The Night:

Starbury — 12 points, 2 assists

A rose by any other name… would smell sweeter? Same output as Howard, and yet we are praising him? Bottom line, Celtics go the Disney World facing an elimination game and everybody over in the Magic locker room is whistling Dixie if Starbury doesn’t keep the C’s in the game, early in the 4th quarter. So maybe Howard should have been singing, “Blame it on the he-e-e-e-e-ead tattoo.”

James White with a little Playoff run, and it was not pretty. 0-6!!!!!!… Danny Granger wins Most Improved Player… Charles Barkley in that space helmet over the weekend was priceless… Mr. Cuban — the apology was most likely well-intentioned — although we can’t lie, it smacked of, “well shucks, I guess I really have to do this now, even though I’m not feelin’ it” — but do you really have to continue to twist the knife with the repeated “when the series comes back to Dallas” jabs? We love you, man, but this ain’t you…

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  • Cheryl Posted: May.13 at 9:00 am
    Does anyone else think SVG is done in Disney? Dwight threw him under the bus last night, saying SVG’s rotations are “not what championship coaches do”. Wow. He’s right, but he’s due a look in the mirror as well.

  • Cheryl Posted: May.13 at 9:02 am
    I mean, championship centers demand the ball in the 4th quarter. You know, in case I wasn’t clear…

  • Nw09 Posted: May.13 at 9:21 am
    Bwahahahaha!!!@ Blame it on the Va-a-a-a-a-angundy whew!! That was funny.

  • Co Co Posted: May.13 at 9:29 am
    I agree totally with your second comment Cheryl.

  • AlbertBarr Posted: May.13 at 9:42 am
    “Blame it on the Va-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-gundy”…awesome.

  • Moose Posted: May.13 at 9:48 am
    Cha-Ching!

  • Darksaber Posted: May.13 at 10:20 am
    Totally luv the “Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol” references in this L.O.N. Nice one. So what exactly did Dwight say to the press about his coach? And Rashard? Chemistry sure is an elusive thing in teamsports, eh? Oh as for the C’s! way to MAN UP AND EFFING PLAY!

  • vannshy Posted: May.13 at 10:26 am
    Dwight’s post-move makes Glen Davis looks like Hakeem

  • Blinguo Posted: May.13 at 10:31 am
    Panic Van Gundy. Marbury shook the whole Orlando team with his late on fire escapades. And you couldn’t hate on him either, unless you’re some monster, since he didn’t do it and showboat like he was Eddie House or something. Nor did he have to petition demonstratively for any foul call when Dwight tried to bump him off the layup.

  • Bryant Posted: May.13 at 11:17 am
    Championship centers can defend Dwight Howard straight up. There’s one championship center in this series, and his name is Kendrick Perkins. Superman can have the ball in the post when he demonstrates the ability to either a) pass out to a wing player or b) score over Perkins. Five baskets, all of them putbacks or dunks on fast breaks, amiright?

  • TADOne Posted: May.13 at 11:44 am
    Wait, Rashard Lewis more or less called his teammates stupid? What exatly did he say? I’m just asking because I haven’t seen his quotes.

  • Darksaber Posted: May.13 at 11:53 am
    Same question here. What did Shard say? i have no info on this. Come on Ryne, send out your detectives. We need soundbites, video, quotes…

  • tenorca Posted: May.13 at 12:13 pm
    I was really hoping the title was a Milli Vanilli reference, but no. Disappointing.

  • Cizzo Posted: May.13 at 1:51 pm
    The players got to make in game adjustment plain simple, the coach can’t coach and play too but everthing is all good when they got the lead though!!!!!

  • Blue Posted: May.13 at 1:59 pm
    Gotta love Paul Pierce’s Line Of The Night being considered Rondo-esque…that’s too cool.

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  • Shannon Booher Posted: May.13 at 3:03 pm
    Rashard said something to the effect of: “The other team is smarter than us”. Can’t find the exact quote, but they were talking about it on Inside.

  • Sparker Posted: May.13 at 4:11 pm
    he just can’t… he just can’t… he just can’t control his mouth

  • TADOne Posted: May.13 at 4:32 pm
    Well, if that is what Rashard say, he is correct. I mean experience=smart in the playoffs. The C’s have been there, done that. Funny thing is, Rashard was more or less talking about his “stupid” play down the stretch.

  • Anton Posted: May.13 at 4:41 pm
    Rashard Overpaid Failure-of-an-All-Star Lewis: “We feel like we’re a better team, don’t know if we’re a smarter team”

  • ciolkstar Posted: May.13 at 4:43 pm
    I like Shard, and I really want him to succeed but sometimes he just doesn’t look like he plays that hard. Him and Joe Johnson have such smooth games that they seem to put themselves to sleep during crunch time. The Magic need someone to step up and right now (without Jameer) they just don’t have “that” guy.

  • sam Posted: May.13 at 5:34 pm
    that part about blame it on the head tatoo was lame but the rest was nice…..C’s gonna advance

  • Donn Posted: May.13 at 6:25 pm
    If they end up losing this series then i say the Master of Panic, Ron Jeremy, is gone….at least he has his other career to fall back on…

  • Dacre Posted: May.13 at 10:54 pm
    Who Donn?

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