Here’s another quiz that came in from a Prelude to a Super Airplane reader:
Sigh…#5 was a yes or no question. Good job otherwise, although as a female in 2009, you can buy things for yourself.
I must throw big complimentary hand-waves here also, for the clear (and requested) mutilation of your copy of the book. You Kindle/iPhone people are missing out on the joys of destroying something so precious with your own two hands.
(If you have no idea what’s going on, go check out the quiz, as it’s part of Chapter 2, which is excerpted in full, right here on the online internet website.)
Okay, let’s get right down to it. I’ve gotten more “why haven’t you posted about LeBron’s shot” emails than I ever got about any single subject over at YAYsports!, and the readership here is like 1/100th of what it was back then.
The fact is, I didn’t post about their Game 1 loss, and so felt it only fair to not post about the Game 2 win, lest I be labeled something I don’t want to be, like a sports writer. Here are answers to all the general Cavs-Magic issues I’ve had thrown at me:
1) My reaction to the shot was eerily similar to my reaction to Jordan’s shot 20 years ago, which is actually one of my earliest vivid memories. Stunned silence. It was a total non-reaction, as I’d already gone into “Cleveland sports fan” mode, ie I’d thrown in the towel and allowed the emptiness to creep into my soul.
I’d actually popped off texts to @alexiskn and @ColleenBurns asking them in advance not to trash talk me, because of my broken heart and low self-esteem.
(Here’s my story of the moment when I first truly understood being a Cleveland fan, if you’ve never read it before.)
2) Yeah, I was wrong about that sweep. Now you can stop sending the hilarious emails where you remind me I called for a sweep.
3) If you’re blaming this on the refs…doesn’t really work. There have been too many calls for sure, but it hasn’t been one-sided, and if there were ever a year the league and 20 different companies are obviously pulling for two certain teams, it’s this one. The conspiracy would go the other way.
4) As you can expect, I blame most of this on LeBron. Forget his stats – I haven’t seen Angry LeBron yet, and he needs to realize and accept that they need him to go play inside. I know he hates it, but with no post presence, they’re finished. And wow – when Dwight Howard is in foul trouble, take it to him every single time.
5) Related to that, the two big leads were built by starting off the game going to Z. This gets him going, and also opens everything up. I said all year they wouldn’t win in the Playoffs playing outside-in against a good team, and that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.
I really have no true predictions for tonight, but I’m mentally prepared for them to lose in some horrific fashion.
