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23 && 33 for 10 && 15

04 Friday Jul 2008

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I’ve been on a funk (well, sort of) lately. I dunno why — can we just blame STRESS just like the old times? Work, work, work. Ugh. I haven’t been updating myself with the STORM, too. That’s almost blasphemous in my world. Tsk tsk tsk.

So, anyway, I still get to listen to games but without the proper attention that I used to bestow on my favorite team on earth. And it’s not helping that we’re sort of sucking on the road (thank goodness for the 9-1 Home record or else we’re toast). And it also sucks that the SpOrks are on top of the Western Conf (wait, lemme check … oh hell no, they still are on top boooo!). Oh well, at least we’re still above .500 and are sitting at 3rd.

The last game I listened to was against the New York Liberty this morning. LJ lit up for 33 points (wooohoooo LJ!) on 12-for-20 shooting, grabbed 5 boards, blocked 2 shots, and swiped one ball. Birdy also played awesomely. She scored a season-high 23 points and assisted 6 shots. Swin played another solid game, scoring 8 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. Swoopes had 9 points, 6 assists, and 7 rebounds. Yo Griffith had 4 points, 7 boards, and 4 steals.

The Up-Sides:
– LJ’s offensive flow has returned.
– Team has more rebounds now.
– Sue — oh Sue, keep that killer offense going. Downright awesome.
– That killer pick-and-roll is just, well, a killer. Pick your poison – LJ or Sue? Tsk.

The Down-Side:
– OMG, the bench?! The bench is missing! (I didn’t concentrate enough on listening so I dunno if they brought some hustle on the court that’s not reflected on the score sheet though).

The Game:

Score: W 81 — 74

[22–14][29–24][15–11][18–22]

Player of the Game: F Lauren Jackson (12-20) 33 Pts, 7 Rebs, 0 Assists

Box Score

Recap

Others:

– The SpOrks lost wahahahaha. To Minny. Good on Seimone Augustus, Candice Wiggins, and company. Yay.

– We’re facing Minny next though. Uh oh. Haha. Oh well, go Storm!

– What the hell? No photos of the game on the Yahoo Sports gallery?! Weird.

Whew!

08 Sunday Jun 2008

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After that nightmare back-to-back road trip (which included a loss to Detroit because of Katie Smith), we finally got some sort of revenge.

(7-2)
1 2 3 4 Total
Detroit 13 15 19 20 67 Final
Seattle 19 21 17 18 75

(6-3)

STAT LINES:

G SUE BIRD — 14 pts 8 asts 3 rebs

F/C LAUREN JACKSON — 24 pts (9 of  11) 6 rebs 5 asts 3 blks

G/F SHERYL SWOOPES — 15 pts 2 rebs 3 asts 2 blks

Wooohooo! Good on Birdy for that dagger three (woohoo Birdy!). At least they won. I can now start my day. 😀

Birdy in 2008 US Olympic Team

01 Sunday Jun 2008

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Okay, so Birdy’s expected to be the starting point guard of this year’s squad. The first 9 slots, as announced, are as follows:

– C Lisa Leslie (L.A. SpOrks) — Ugh.

– G Katie Smith (Detroit Shock)

– G Sue Bird (Seattle Storm)

– G/F Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury)

– F Tina Thompson (Houston Comets)

– G Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx)

– C Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky)

– F Candace Parker (L.A. Sparks)

– G Cappie Pondexter (Phoenix Mercury)

USA has won 5 of 6 gold medals, the latest was Athens. But it shouldn’t be guarantee enough because Australia’s Opals are the fiercest ever — led by Captain Lauren Jackson. Russia (with Becky Hammon) can also be a huge problem, I remember them beating USA in the semis during the last World Championships.

Revenge Woohoo

01 Sunday Jun 2008

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SEATTLE @ SAN ANTONIO (May 24, 2008)

Score: 72 — 87 (Loss)

— I missed this one because I wasn’t able to go home from Aileen’s Welcome Party in Bubaigawara. Good for me, at least I was spared the stress.

SEATTLE vs SAN ANTONIO (May 30, 2008)

Score: 78 — 57 (Win)

Player of the Game: F/C Lauren Jackson, 28 points (10-16), 3 rebounds.

— I actually forgot about this game. Haha. I woke up around the second quarter and immediately tuned to the dotcom audio. They said there was gonna be a webcast but it turned out they were just pulling my leg. I hope they archive it, though. It was a pretty awesome game by LJ. 😀

STANDING: 4 — 1 0.800 (2nd West)

UP NEXT: Houston Jun 1 2100H EDT

Opening Night

18 Sunday May 2008

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(0-1)
1 2 3 4 Total
Chicago 18 17 12 14 61 Final
Seattle 16 13 25 13 67

(1-0)

OMG, I LOVE SWOOPES! The defense is just way awesome. LJ was ice cold in the first half — missing everything! The Storm couldn’t buy a single bucket and it looked like Chicago might win the game. And then Swoopes stole all those passes and the game just went into a different direction. Hell yeaaaaah!

One thing — wahaha, palpak pa rin ang bench! Imagine, with 2 minutes left, we were up 15 and then the starters went out, tapos the Sky cut the lead down to 6? My Gaaaaaad!

LJ’s stats look a little, I dunno, mortal. Come on, feel the rhythm, super-aussie! We gotta get you back to Superwoman status, ASAP!

Anyhoo, top performers for this game:

Bird – 13 pts, 7 asts
Cash – 13 pts, 8 rebs, 3 asts
Swoopes – 6 pts, 4 rebs, 2 asts, 3 steals
Griffith – 8 pts, 7 rebs
Jackson – 14 pts, 6 rebs

Other games on opening night:

(1) LA 99 – 94 PHX
[LA] Candace Parker with 34, 12, and 8 asts.
[PHX] Cappie Pondexter with 32, 3, and 7 asts.

(2) DET 85 – 66 HOU.
[DET] Katie Smith with 21 and 3 dishes.
[HOU] Tina Thompson with 17, 8, 2 asts.

(3) CON 100 – 68 ATL
[CON] Whitmore with 22, 10, and 3 assists.
[ATL] B-Money with 19 and 7.

(4) IND 64 – 53 WAS
[IND] Katie Douglas with 24, 7, 3.
[WAS] Sanford with 14, 11, 1.

(5) SAC 73 – 64 SA
[SAC] Williams 13, 7.
[SA] Young 22, 4

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Weeee! Next game is on a Wednesday. Argh, I hope I can still listen AND work.

Official Seattle Storm 2008 Roster

17 Saturday May 2008

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Seattle Storm Starting Five
Storm Starters
、ESue Bird, Yolanda Griffith, Lauren Jackson, Swin Cash, Sheryl Swoopes 、E/p>

NUM PLAYER POS HT WT DOB FROM YRS
8 Kimberly Beck G 5-8 125 12/27/1985 George Washington R
10 Sue Bird G 5-9 150 10/16/1980 Connecticut ’02 6
2 Swin Cash F 6-1 162 09/22/1979 Connecticut ’02 6
0 Shyra Ely F 6-2 182 08/09/1983 Tennessee ’05 3
4 Katie Gearlds G-F 6-1 184 10/26/1984 Purdue 1
13 Yolanda Griffith C-F 6-3 188 03/01/1970 Florida Atlantic ’93 9
15 Lauren Jackson F-C 6-5 187 05/11/1981 Australia 7
26 Florina Pascalau C 6-4 187 01/19/1982 Romania R
43 Ashley Robinson C 6-4 180 08/12/1982 Tennessee 4
9 Kelly Santos F 6-3 188 11/10/1979 Brazil 2
22 Sheryl Swoopes F 6-0 145 03/25/1971 Texas Tech ’93 10
30 Tanisha Wright G 5-11 165 11/29/1983 Penn State 3

BECK IS IN! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

(Storm waved Doneeka Hodges-Lewis and kept Beck and newly-arrived center Florina Pascalau).

Alright, just have to get that out of my system.

Storm 2008 Roster

13 Tuesday May 2008

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Waaaah — ang tagal mag-announce ng cuts. So anyway here’s my blah-blah-blah about the whole thing:

、ESURE-AS-HELL LOCKS 、E/p>

① Lauren Jackson and Sue Bird — ‘Nuff said. All hell will break loose if Seattle ever releases these two. Fresh off a successfull overseas season in Russia, LJ and Birdy should be back and ready in green before opening night.

② Swin Cash — She’s looking and playing great and is almost back to her pre-ACL days. I wasn’t really thrilled initially with the Storm signing her but I think Swin’s gonna be a big factor in days to come.

③ Sheryl Swoopes — I was initially awed when the Storm signed Swoopes. I mean, she is an All-Star, an Olympian, an All-Decade Team Member (wait — we had all those in Bird and Jackson). But Swoopes was also rumored to be retiring soon. And she’s got quite a number of minor injuries *every* game so far. But I think she’s also a great scoring threat and if she takes care of herself well enough (no major injuries please), she’s gonna be a huge part of the puzzle. Plus it doesn’t hurt to have a sort-of Assistant Coach in uniform.

④ Yolanda Griffith — Enough gas in the tank, I think. Without Janelle Burse (Jones Injury) this season, she’d have to be responsible for many minutes in the 5 spot. I’m not yet sure how Agler would rotate the players but with her, Swin, A.Rob, Kelly Santos, and of course LJ, our post is certainly not thin.

、EOF COURSE THEY’RE IN 、E/p>

①　Katie Gearlds — KG might have been a bubble player for a while (I read about the “white on rice” thing that Agler told her several weeks ago) but judging from her performance in the Indiana Pre-Season Game, she’s definitely in.

②　Ashley Robinson — Pretty solid on both ends of the court. Yo can certainly need a reliever like her for the 5 spot.

③ Shyra Ely — Huge improvement and great defense.

④ Kelly Santos — I’m not really familiar with her and I haven’t seen her play yet but I read some favorable feedback about her in SF.org so I guess she’s okay.

、EIN THE BUBBLE 、E/p>

① Tanisha Wright — Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that she’s improved (heh) and whatever and her defense is good and her shot is good, too, but SHE IS NOT A POINT GUARD demmit! She’s prolly a decent SG/SF, at best.

② Kimberly Beck — Now, Beck is a Point Guard, albeit a traditional one (pass first, shoot second). There’s positive feedback about her all over sf.org and she’d be a solid back-up to Birdy. I hope Agler keeps her.

③ Daphanie Kennedy — Betty Lennox Jr., according to Scotts Game Report. Hahaha. Okay, we all know I’m not really partial to Betty. I think Kennedy’s out.

④ Kristen O’Neill — I’m not really sure. Is she competing with Gearlds for the same spot? She’s scrappy, she’s got great baller IQ, but with KG’s performance, it doesn’t look good for this UW stand-out. I wish Agler would keep her though.

⑤ Hodges Twins — I don’t even want to elaborate. They’re experienced but I’m not really comfortable with them in Storm uniforms and they haven’t shown any impact in the games. I hope Agler doesn’t stick with the vets and chuck these two out.

MY PICKS => Beck, one of the twins, and Wright (I knoooowwww … tssss … basta di siya back-up PG ah!) I want O’Neill in too, but I’d be very happy if Agler keeps at least one rookie. Come on, masyado na geriatric ang Storm!

Spartak Champs Again

11 Sunday May 2008

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Sue Bird, Lauren Jackson and the rest of Spartak totally decimated their Russian Championship opponent CSKA Moscow 101-63 to take this year’s trophy.

As expected LJ led the charge with 30 (on 8 of 10) and 5 boards. Birdy who was perfect from the field with 13 pts. Benchies Tatiana Schegoleva added 20 points and Tina Thompson 19.

This win makes it a Double-Championship Season for Spartak. They also won the Euroleague Championships earlier this season.

Box Score here.

Game Vid here (just wade through the alien~ish letters).

[Golden Week 2008] Lazy Saturday

03 Saturday May 2008

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this is just an attempt to wade through the sabaw that’s currently occupying the space in my cranium. oic while my brain is vacationing somewhere.

it’s a very lazy saturday — start of the much awaited golden week, actually. no jap class because our rakista pasyonista lola sensei is off to god-only-knows-where and no tennis-slash-whatever thing because the weather got screwy. i don’t have any back-up plans. tssss.

i have nothing to do. and no one to talk to. well, scratch that out, there are people everywhere but i just wanna keep to myself for a while and mull over some thoughts (after-shock from last night, i guess).

alright, so i’m actually following a storm pre-season game in sacto now but there’s no audio and it’s really hard to get yourself into the game if you’re just watching the scoreboard and the play-by-play. plus birdy and lj aren’t yet around and *ugh* i’m just so lethargic this morning.

wait, omfg, why is sacto leading? grrr. we were on top just a few seconds ago.

i didn’t see swoopes in the line-up. she’s not playing, i guess. swin’s been in there a time or two. k.gearlds, come on, show us that smooth shot. yoyoyo griffith, cool, you just tied the frikkin’ game. now, i know that brian agler doesn’t care about winning just yet and he’s trying out combinations blah blah blah but wouldn’t it be nice to see a WIN this early? and yeah yeah yeah, i get that sue and lauren aren’t still around, as well as jb, but hey, a little enthusiasm wouldn’t hurt, right? (i will not mention tanisha, i will not mention tanisha, i will not mention tanisha — gad, why on earth is she still in a storm jersey?).

swin just fouled someone and we’re now down 2. and now the rookie beck just fouled some monarch again. anubuzz.

amfufu, down 5. swin just turned the ball over. oh come on, swin! team timeout.

what to do what to do what to do?! might head out to some park to play volleyball with laizee. and i’ll prolly take noodles with me so i can finally take a shot of those (oh wait, a gearlds three! yey!) flowers (or damong ligaw) along the road heading to the nagayama-eki.

argh, this game is just too long. i’m already hungry. 55-55. who scored? who scored? damn html play-by-play is not refreshing. oh, wait, two free-throws for beck.

amf. (sacto) tangela “pocahontas” smith fadeaway. lech. come on, swin, katie, yo, ANYONE! bawiiiiii! alright, swin scored a hook, but a monarch had a jump shot, swin had a layup, and the same frikkin’ monarch had a jump shot again. amfufu where’s your defense, storm? and what the bloody hell — pocahontas for another jump shot. grrrrr.

oh wait — why on earth am i live-blogging an exhibition game anyway?

2 more minutes and then hello lunch! gearlds missed a three, shyra ely rebounds and then turns the ball over. a cash turnover, a pocahontas steal, an a.rob foul. i can’t wait for this game to be over. i’m really hungry. and now we’re down 8. two lawson free throws. team timeout short.

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i’ll peel my butt off my chair for the meantime and will just update this entry when i see the score later. gotta scourge for food.

just a random (yeah, right, random) thought:

ano ba ang tamang sagot sa tanong na “ano ang wala?“?

[#]: anong meron?
[~]: wala.
[#]: anong ang wala?
[~]: hala, papano ba sasagutin yang tanong na yan?

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oh, waittaminute, we were down 8 and now we’re just down 2? woohoo @ beck for that three. 15 seconds left. why isn’t there no frikkin’ audio?!

down four on kara lawson’s free throws. are we dropping two games in a row? find out later.

kennedy for three! down one now. but oh no, beck fouled someone. please let not someone be kara lawson.

(why on earth am i so invested in a preseason game? because i will miss the opening game, that’s why! stupid check-up, stupid lungs.)

six seconds. down one.

beck fouls again. pocahontas misses the first ft but sinks the second. we’re down two. 4 frikkin’ seconds. i wanna eat naaaa!

oh. it’s over. 68-70.

whatever. let’s move on. the world is still turning.

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speaking of the world is still turning shit, i remember reading a thread in peyups.com and i picked this little nugget from there:

[+] axis ka ba?
[-] huh?
[+] kasi sa ‘yo umiikot ang mundo ko eh.

what the hell di ba? sarap batuhin ng sapatos — ay no, i will not insult my shoes that way. will find another object to throw na lang.

amfufu.

osha, (late) lunch na.