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In the immortal words of Tom Berenger and reminded to me by my friend Stuart Hacket: There's only one thing left to do. Win the whole FREAKING THING!
That's right. What? You all thought we were just gonna stroll into a series with the Spurs, the evil empire of the NBA and just have it handed to us on a silver and black platter? Would that have been nice? Yeah, but you know what, nice guys who take nice things FINISH FREAKING LAST.
Here's the nuts and bolts folks - most teams/towns that are STARVED for a title seem to have to go through HELL AND BACK to get that first one. Remember how AWFUL games 3-5 of the World Series was? Remember BYung Young Kim? Remember how AWFUL the eighth inning of Game 7 was? Remember how the Sox were down 3-0 to their most hated team and the evil Empire? Both us and the Sox came back from UNBELIEVABLE odds to win titles and they literally had to go up against history, horrible play and everything else. THAT'S how you seemingly have to win a title and apparently, it's the same way we're going to have to.
I can hear the naysayers now. Oh, that's baseball. It's different. Shut your damn pie hole and realize the universe is changing, at least for this calendar year, typified by JANUARY FIRST, where a little run and fun team that nobody believed in took a commanding lead against the big, rough and tough Oklahoma Sooners - it was amazing and then reality caught up and Oklahoma ended the dream scoring on fourth down to take the lead... UNTIL THAT FREAKING TEAM FROM BOISE SAID SCREW YOU! WE WILL NOT RIDE SILENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT. They fought and clawed and on 4th and Mile, they ran the most ridiculous 50 yard flea-flicker to send the game to OT, where again, reality reared it's ugly head as Adrian Peterson scored a TD on the first play - what did Boise do? Did they lie down like dogs? No - they said SCREW YOU AGAIN and got within one on a freaking Tackle eligible play and then WON IT WITH A STATUE OF LIBERTY TWO -POINT CONVERSION! THEY NEVER GAVE UP.
I can hear you now - that's college - it's different. But then three weeks later, we saw the NFL's equivalent of Spurs-Suns in the AFC TITLE GAME: PATS V. COLTS - Run and Gun contenders versus the Old Guard Champs. And what happened? The Colts went down 21 points. Did they give up? Did they surrender? No, they said SCREW YOU - WE WILL NOT LOSE THIS GAME and they roared back with one of the greatest comebacks of all time and stormed through the rets of the playoffs, finally winning the Super Bowl.
So what's next? We've had college football's version of the Suns winning an improbable game. We've had the NFL's version of the Suns winning an improbable title - IT'S FREAKING TIME FOR THE FREAKING SUNS, THE NBA'S VERSION OF THE SUNS TO WIN A FREAKING TITLE.
NOTHING WORTH HAVING COMES EASY. In fact, from the stuff above, we've seen that the GREATEST things in life come from the hardest circumstances possible. This IS one of those times. This is where LEGENDS are born.
In Game 5, we saw the Suns do their best 300 impression, battling for their lives, seemingly overcoming every obstacle and almost pulling out a miracle until they just couldn't do it anymoreand like Leonidas and his boys, Nash and his boys ultimately went down. But what happened after that? Word spread of the heart and fight those 300 men put up and reinforcements came to the Spartans, just as ****ing reinforcements are coming for Game 6 and we aren't just going to sit back, we are GOING TO TAKE THE WAR TO SAN ANTONIO AND FINISH OFF THOSE DOUCHEBAGS JUST LIKE THE SPARTANS DID TO THE PERSIANS!
Then, it all comes home, where the power of the MVP AND HELLBOY (and DB) will not let us lose.
I guaranteed Game 4 (albeit, I hedged before the game like a complete wuss) - and now I'm guaranteeing the series. WE WILL NOT LOSE. NOT TO THIS ****ING SHWAG ASS SPURS TEAM. OUR MOMENT OF GREATEST GLORY IS COMING AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT. Cheap Shot Rob, Hodgey Head Bruce, David Stern... NOTHING.
WE WILL PERSEVERE. WE WILL PREVAIL. AND WE WILL SHOCK AND DELIGHT THE WORLD TOMORROW NIGHT AND BEYOND!
GAME 6 - ALL OR NOTHING!
That's right. What? You all thought we were just gonna stroll into a series with the Spurs, the evil empire of the NBA and just have it handed to us on a silver and black platter? Would that have been nice? Yeah, but you know what, nice guys who take nice things FINISH FREAKING LAST.
Here's the nuts and bolts folks - most teams/towns that are STARVED for a title seem to have to go through HELL AND BACK to get that first one. Remember how AWFUL games 3-5 of the World Series was? Remember BYung Young Kim? Remember how AWFUL the eighth inning of Game 7 was? Remember how the Sox were down 3-0 to their most hated team and the evil Empire? Both us and the Sox came back from UNBELIEVABLE odds to win titles and they literally had to go up against history, horrible play and everything else. THAT'S how you seemingly have to win a title and apparently, it's the same way we're going to have to.
I can hear the naysayers now. Oh, that's baseball. It's different. Shut your damn pie hole and realize the universe is changing, at least for this calendar year, typified by JANUARY FIRST, where a little run and fun team that nobody believed in took a commanding lead against the big, rough and tough Oklahoma Sooners - it was amazing and then reality caught up and Oklahoma ended the dream scoring on fourth down to take the lead... UNTIL THAT FREAKING TEAM FROM BOISE SAID SCREW YOU! WE WILL NOT RIDE SILENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT. They fought and clawed and on 4th and Mile, they ran the most ridiculous 50 yard flea-flicker to send the game to OT, where again, reality reared it's ugly head as Adrian Peterson scored a TD on the first play - what did Boise do? Did they lie down like dogs? No - they said SCREW YOU AGAIN and got within one on a freaking Tackle eligible play and then WON IT WITH A STATUE OF LIBERTY TWO -POINT CONVERSION! THEY NEVER GAVE UP.
I can hear you now - that's college - it's different. But then three weeks later, we saw the NFL's equivalent of Spurs-Suns in the AFC TITLE GAME: PATS V. COLTS - Run and Gun contenders versus the Old Guard Champs. And what happened? The Colts went down 21 points. Did they give up? Did they surrender? No, they said SCREW YOU - WE WILL NOT LOSE THIS GAME and they roared back with one of the greatest comebacks of all time and stormed through the rets of the playoffs, finally winning the Super Bowl.
So what's next? We've had college football's version of the Suns winning an improbable game. We've had the NFL's version of the Suns winning an improbable title - IT'S FREAKING TIME FOR THE FREAKING SUNS, THE NBA'S VERSION OF THE SUNS TO WIN A FREAKING TITLE.
NOTHING WORTH HAVING COMES EASY. In fact, from the stuff above, we've seen that the GREATEST things in life come from the hardest circumstances possible. This IS one of those times. This is where LEGENDS are born.
In Game 5, we saw the Suns do their best 300 impression, battling for their lives, seemingly overcoming every obstacle and almost pulling out a miracle until they just couldn't do it anymoreand like Leonidas and his boys, Nash and his boys ultimately went down. But what happened after that? Word spread of the heart and fight those 300 men put up and reinforcements came to the Spartans, just as ****ing reinforcements are coming for Game 6 and we aren't just going to sit back, we are GOING TO TAKE THE WAR TO SAN ANTONIO AND FINISH OFF THOSE DOUCHEBAGS JUST LIKE THE SPARTANS DID TO THE PERSIANS!
Then, it all comes home, where the power of the MVP AND HELLBOY (and DB) will not let us lose.
I guaranteed Game 4 (albeit, I hedged before the game like a complete wuss) - and now I'm guaranteeing the series. WE WILL NOT LOSE. NOT TO THIS ****ING SHWAG ASS SPURS TEAM. OUR MOMENT OF GREATEST GLORY IS COMING AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT. Cheap Shot Rob, Hodgey Head Bruce, David Stern... NOTHING.
WE WILL PERSEVERE. WE WILL PREVAIL. AND WE WILL SHOCK AND DELIGHT THE WORLD TOMORROW NIGHT AND BEYOND!
GAME 6 - ALL OR NOTHING!
