Bob Ryan Also Sucks – 4/24/09

The Dan-Bob Ryanessy Experiment produced three columns and a blog post over the weekend. Let’s get this zinger train a-rollin’!

Blog post first.

(Bob’s bloggy thoughts in bold, my blahzay bla in plain.)

Never Saw It Coming

It was just –BOOM- and my face exploded..

Maybe you knew. I sure didn't.

I didn’t know they put cheese in bottles now. Will wonders never cease!

I wasn't surprised the Celtics played well in the United Center on Thursday night. I thought there was a pretty good chance they'd play a solid game, but it never entered my mind the Bulls would come up so amazingly small.

The arena was cold, alright?!!

Common sense dictated that the Bulls, having played so well in Boston, being so full of confidence, and backed by what was sure to be a boisterous home crowd in what was being billed as the biggest professional basketball game in Chicago since Game 2 of the 1998 Finals, would ride the tide and come out strong.

Huh, never would have guessed the phrase ‘common sense’ was in Bob Ryan’s lexicon. Never saw it coming.

But this was a wire-to-wire beatdown. The Celtics played better defense, sure, but the Bulls were incredibly tentative and extremely sloppy with the basketball, and the Celtics made them pay.

I hear Chicago had to call the game into the police afterwards and report it. But c’mon, look’t the way they were dressed. They were askin’ for it..

You can't hand the ball over to Rajon Rondo in the open floor and not expect to get burned. The Bulls did not seize the moment.

They did not carpe the diem.

They could win Game 4,

Oh, they did..

but the Celtics have done what they needed to do already.

Win a game.

Paul Pierce earned his money. That was a bravura performance by a star who played like a Star. Big Baby played another sensational game. I was happy when he accompanied Ray Allen from Seattle on that draft night deal, but I certainly didn't think he'd get this good this fast.

You became good too fast! Slow down your goodness!

But the most interesting development of the evening was the play of Stephon Marbury, who really helped the cause when it was still a game.

Oh? The guy you shit all over in your last column? That Stephon Marbury?

If this is the way he's going to play ...

We'll see about that.

And, yet another meaningless dig at Marbury. Bob Ryan: Class Act.

Meanwhile, I can't tell you how much I admire Gregg Popovich.

Whoops, what?

Yes, I've seen teams come back from 26 in the second half. I've even seen a Sixers team come back from 31 down to beat the Celtics -- in Boston. But Pop knew that particular game against Dallas was over, and he started coaching for Saturday. Pop is the NBA's ultimate pragmatist,

You take that back!

and he is also the NBA's best coach, period.

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Just a short little chunk of Bob Ryany thoughts following Game 3. A slight flip-flop on Marbury and a random paragraph on Gregg Popovich.

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