Rough Night On The Hardwood (From My Perspective)

I was rather excited. For the first time on my brand new 40 inch HDTV, I was going to sit down and watch some basketball. Two games of interest to me were on. Duke happens to be my favorite basketball team (call me a front runner; however, the real reason I am a Duke fan is that my cousin was at Duke when I began to follow college basketball - so blame him for my love of the prepiest team in all of sports). So, I wanted to watch Duke vs. Wake and the Nets (can't call me a front runner) vs. Toronto.

I would describe the torture as follows: both of my rooting interests were down by double digits late in the game. As I flipped back and forth, both teams proceeded to make startling comebacks. As I deemed the Duke game more important, I decided to watch it through the conclusion and then flip back to the Nets game. I have a quiet smile on my face as Duke ties the game at 68 (I don't overreact to sports) and watch at Teague (on Wake Forest) misses a lay up to win the game. Gerald Henderson gets the rebound and is then called for a rather questionable traveling violation as he fell to the ground (I think he landed on a Wake player who had fallen on the ground in which case it should have been a foul on Wake - but now I am sounding like a typical Duke fan). Wake Forest then scored a go ahead basket with .8 seconds left on the inbounds play.

I then quickly flipped to the Nets game. They had also managed to come back successfully and had the ball for one last possession down by 1. Devin Harris makes a wicked move to get a wide open elbow jumper. I quote Harris, "I make that shot 98 percent of the time". Well, Harris came up short.

Now that is a rough couple of minutes.

I did not stay up for Federer vs. Roddick - but I love Roger so I was rather satisfied.

Yaros