I’m sitting here watching Game 3 of the Miami – Washington series as I write this column and am amazed that it’s actually a good game – the Wiz are up by two at halftime. Oh, by the way, Shaq didn’t suit up for the game. This might actually turn out to be a competitive series if Shaq doesn’t play the rest of it…and Ashton Kutcher might have actually won an Oscar if he had any talent.
But I digress. Was it just me or was the first round of the playoffs great? Not to bring up the old stuff, but other than the Rockets losing in Game 7 to the Mavs and the Celtics rolling over and dying after blowing out Indiana in Game 1 (of course the abysmal discrepancy in free throws during that series might have had something to do with it as well), there were no major surprises in the first round. Yours truly went 6-2 on my First Round predictions…I’ll take that any day.
While I’m just about as sad that the Rockets lost Game 7 as when Pam Anderson decided to leave the cast of /Baywatch/ (a sad, sad day in television history), I must say, the potential I saw in Yao, Tracy and the rest of the Rockets team has me very much looking forward to the 2005-06 season.
Oh, one last thing before we get to the Top 10 list. The Rockets season might be over, but that doesn’t mean that The Database Guy (yes, I just referred to myself in the third person) is taking any time off. No, you won’t find me going off to Tahiti this summer to warm my buns and drink frozen drinks with little umbrellas in them (have fun Cat and Steve). I plan on staying in Houston, working on my office tan and cranking out new Top 10 lists for all of my devoted readers. Be looking for some fun, random columns this summer like the Top 10 NBA Players Most Likely to Play Themselves in NBA Live, the Top 10 Things Shaq Might Do in the Off-season, and a few columns devoted strictly to one of my favorite topics: movies. If you have any suggestions, send them to dbguy@rocketball.com
Now on to the Top 10 List: Being that there are still three more rounds in the NBA playoffs, I’ve decided to give you my Top 10 predictions for the rest of the 2005 NBA Playoffs. Enjoy.
Dramatic themes often include current issues,
societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial
prejudice, religious intolerance (such as anti-Semitism), drug
addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power,
alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness,
corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women or other
explosive issues of the times.
These films have successfully drawn
attention to the issues by taking advantage of the topical interest of
the subject. Although dramatic films have often dealt frankly and
realistically with social problems, the tendency has been for
Hollywood, especially during earlier times of censorship, to exonerate
society and institutions and to blame problems on an individual, who
more often than not, would be punished for his/her transgressions.
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