I didn’t think it was possible for me to hate the Spurs anymore than I already did, but after attending day 2 of the NBA finals I have found even more reasons to hate. I have never seen a group of fans more lame than the 18k packed into the AT&T center. They were very loud when the PA announcer told them to, but I don’t think I heard one bit of spontaneous noise the entire game. When the game got close the announcer had to tell them to get loud every 5 minutes or they would be dead silent. This is the NBA finals, you should be on your feet screaming your ass of for 4 quarters. Their dancers did a choreographed dance to “Ice Ice Baby”, and for some reason the decided it would be a good idea to randomly blare music in the middle of plays.
Ice Ice Baby
It would have loved to see the Cavs take down that game just to see the looks on those people’s faces. It was basically just a bunch of rich white people who came just because it was the thing to do, and not for the true love of the team. Mike Brown could not make that a reality for me as he really gave the game up with his first quarter strategy. Hmmm Lebron gets two fouls early, so not only does he bench him for the whole quarter but immediately puts in a line up that had 0 scorers. When I saw that happen I told Jared that they would be down 15 by the time that lineup was off the court, well I was wrong they were down 17.
The 2nd half was a lot more interesting when they finally realized that Lebron driving every play and either drawing a foul or kicking it out to someone who could make a 3 was the correct strategy. The AT&T center was located in the low economy area of the city and as we slowly made our way down that street everyone was out in front of their tiny houses making noise and celebrating the victory. The people who weren’t at the game jumped into their cars and started in impromptu parade. I really wish those people had a chance to go to the game. The people who couldn’t afford it were the true fans and the ones who really should have been in the arena; it would have been a great atmosphere if they had been.
The plan for Monday was to play poker all day, but the hotel’s internet didn’t work. So, we just hung out at the river walk for a while, saw the Alamo, and relaxed. There was a bomb ass steak house near the hotel and we ate like a 6 course meal there.
We saw what had to be the most awesome restaurant of all time on the way to the game, so we had to eat there before we left on Tuesday. It was called “Tanks Chicken and Waffles”. For $2.75 you could get a giant waffle and a fried chicken leg. We went there pretty much as a joke, but it actually turned out to be quite delicious.
Delicous
After almost running out of gas (there are like 40 mile stretches of nothing in this part of TX) and the road being blocked by a helicopter air lifting someone from a nasty accident we ended up stopping off in el Paso tonight. This is the only high way I have ever seen in the US that has an 80 m/hr speed limit, it was pretty sexy. The original plan was to drive to Phoenix tomorrow then the grand canyon Thursday, but we need to get our WSOP fix in soon so we’re just going to do the 11 hours there tomorrow and skip everything else. We’ll probably grab a hotel on the strip until we get the house on Saturday and hopefully the cash games and satellites will go well so we can get into a bunch of events.
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