Tuesday Morning Thoughts: Wolverine

The girl in Wolverine.

Random and short. Wolverine movie, Bears and last thoughts on Bulls.

1. Don’t know why, but I watched Wolverine this past weekend. Not bad, but not good either. But I think the moderately attractive (with Hollywood relativity) brunette in the movie (I just think she could have been more attractive) should have “mind warped” Striker to help heal Wolverine and/or fill in the gaps in his memory instead of having him walk a very long time.

2. From all accounts the Bears really, really like the players they got in the draft. As if Ron Turner is going to talk negatively about Iglesias or Johny Knox. I wonder if Turner is really thinking, “Shit, we don’t have any good WRs on this team and Johny Know would have a hard time playing in the Arena league”.

3. The Celtics, to make up a word, VETERINIZED the Bulls. The Celtics were slower, less athletic and overall weren’t as good as the Bulls. But, that didn’t matter. They played smarter when it counted: they knew how to pick on a bulls defensive matchup (which is pretty easy when you have Kirk Hinrich guarding Glen Davis), knew when to drive to the hoop to get a foul (which pretty much happened every time Paul Pierce drove the lane), and knew how to get looks at the end of games (which the Bulls couldn’t do. Think the Brad Miller/Salmons play that Vinny drew up that resulted in, well, nothing).

4. One player can make a difference. Imagine if KG played this series. The Celtics would have won in 5. But, imagine if a healthy KG or even Chris Bosh played for the Bulls. We win that series in 5. One could argue that we are one post-player away from competing for a title.

5. While I can’t stand Rajon Rondo, he outplayed Rose this past series. Granted, he has a few more years than Rose. While Rondo didn’t light up the scoring sheet the last 2 games he had assist totals in the high teens. Pretty impressive. But, I have a strong feeling that Rose is only scratching the surface with this talent.

I hope that Orlando dominates the Celtics just so I won’t have to see Perkins’ ugly face again.