| Show CHUCK FULL OF SPORTS By Charles Barnard Sports Editor Co-Editor liz I must have dozed off A few weeks ago I wrote about yawning after watching some of the basketball playoff games Well after Thursday nights Jazz game against the Lakers I finally fell asleep Now I will be the first to admit that there has been some great games so far farin farin farin in this years year's playoffs but game three of the Jazz Lakers series was one of the worst games I have ever watched in my life To be precise the first half was I dont don't know what happened in the second half because that first half put me to sleep The Jazz have never looked so bad Was this the great team that won 64 games There was a time lime in the first half that the Jazz were shooting 8 How bad did it get At one point Hod Rod announced that the Jazz were shooting 12 2 1 When was the last time you heard a team shooting 54 2 1 Or how about 64 3 2 But hey when you are only shooting 12 that extra half makes a big difference And then there was Karl Oh Karl Malone our wonderful most valuable player Can any anyone one say for 2 On Thursday night Karl could not hit the broad side of a battle ship let alone a barn bam Sorry I am still trying to wake up It was not only the oh I mean Jazz that played awful on Thursday The Lakers also did their part in making me fall asleep It seemed like the only thing they could do was foul Here a foul there a foul every where a foul foul You know they must have been playing really bad if the Jazz are shooting under 10 and they are still in the game If I were writing this weeks week's Sign of the Apocalypse it would not be that the Jazz shooting percentage was lower than the BYU basketball teams team's winning percentage okay it was not that low but that the Lakers did not beat them by 50 Where are the great games I watched one of the Suns games and it was the most exciting games I have watched in a long time It was a game that went back and forth forthright forthright forthright right to the end but it was more than just a close game It was just plain fun to watch There was a time in the game where the Suns had four guards and andone andone andone one forward in their line up It was a type of basketball that I would call run and gun You dont don't t fall asleep in a game like that You dont don't even want to go to the fridge because you are afraid that you might miss something exciting There was everything in this overtime game It even had Rex Chapman hitting one of the best shots I have ever seen in my life After he hit it I yelled so loud that I woke everyone in the house up I was yelling and I am not even a Suns fan It Itis Itis Itis is that type of excitement that I want with the Jazz games If Thursdays Thursday's game put me to sleep then Saturdays Saturday's game acted like my alarm clock Even though I did not get the chance to watch the game I did listen to the majority of it on the radio It sounded like it was a different team teamon on the floor wearing those Jazz uni uni- forms After shaking of the Sports Illustrated curse Malone was 40 points is a great way to tomake tomake tomake make people forget about a for 20 game And how about Bryon dont call me Byron Russell He was on fire If game four was an alarm clock I must have just hit the snooze bar Now it is on to game five The big question in my mind is that will my alarm clock finally wake me up or will the Jazz put me to sleep once more |
