Monday Morning Review Feb 5th

Superbowl:
There were a lot of good things and bad things about the Super Bowl. The best thing was that Manning finally won, so now sports reporters can stop saying that he is a choker. The Bears, however, looked horrible. Their defense wasn't that great (just as we though), and Rex Grossman looked like a highschool quarterback with his 2 horrible fumbles from snaps and his two lobbed and poorly thrown interceptions. Good thing, Vinatieri missed a field goal, furthering my point that he is overrated and not more clutch than an average guy. Clutch is kicking a 54+ field goal every year and winning games with big kicks like Josh Brown. What's so clutch about making 3 sub 30 yarders and missing a 36 yarder? Nothing. Bad thing, Hester returned the first kick for a TD, which made him look good, but he only made a slight shift to the right. The Colts special teams was just awful, and the Bears blocking set up Hester's play. Good thing, with a Super Bowl like that, the Seahawks, who played poorly most of the season, could have definetley won it all this year. Bad thing, they didn't win it.
Huskies:
Pretty bad week. We barely beat a team that was 0-9 in conference play and is now 0-11, then we get throttled by Arizona. I don't mind losing to good teams, but I don't want to get killed by them either.
We beat ASU 66-61, but sucked a lot in the 2nd half scoring only 22 points to their 40. Brockman, Dentmon, and Hawes are the only people who really played well. We outshot them 47% to 34%, outrebounded them 32 to 25, and only had 4 more turnovers than them, and we still only manage to beat them by 5?
Against Arizona, only Artem Wallace played well, making 6 of 6 fgs. As a team we shot 38% while they shot 57%. No single player killed us on Arizona, but lucky for them, they had a freshman named Jordan Hill come out of nowhere and post 16 points 8 rebounds and 5 blocks in place of the struggling Jawann McClellan. I knew we'd either win big or lose big in this game because Arizona was struggling, so they were either going to turn things around or continue sinking in their ship full of holes. Unfortunately they decided to put it together against us and this might cost us our tournament berth. Sad that just 3 weeks ago we were ranked 24th.
Sonics:
We went 0-3, so with Durant exploding his last to games, this is good news I guess.
The first game, we lost at the Mavs, who along with the Suns, are playing on another level. Ray Allen went off for 35 6 7, and Collison got 19 9, but not much else good happened. Austin Croshere played a lot because Josh Howard's wife had a baby, and he killed us. He;s always had talent, so I don't know why they play him so sparingly, but he scored 34 points in 24 minutes of 7 of 10 3's and 11 of 14 overall.
We then lost the next night at Houston as expected. McGrady torched us for 36 9 and 5. Ray Allen matched it with 36 6 and 5, and Collison chipped in with 25 and 17, but no one else reached double figures in points while the Rockets had 5 others reach double figures. To add further insult to the team, we only shot 8 free throws, which is pretty pathetic. You could probably just drive to the basket 10 times and flail around like Manu Ginobli and get 4 calls for 8 free throws.
Friday night, we lost to Chicago at home. Ray Allen had 29 points on 9-28 shooting and Collison had 20 12, but besides solid contributions from Ridnour and Wilkins no one else did anything. The Bulls simply had too many guys scoring against us, with Deng, Hinrich, Gordon, Nocioni, and Duhon scoring in double figures. It's easy to lose often when all three teams that played against us shot better than 50% and shoot about 2x as many free throws as you do.
Sonics looked bad, but this year's draft is the deepest and best at the top since LeBron, Darko, Carmelo, Bosh, and DWade, so I guess if we were to suck, this would be the year to do it. I still think we should trade Watson, Wilkins/Gelabale, Wilcox, Sene, and 1st round pick for Gasol or Kirilenko and crap, but oh well, I guess he might not be enough to send us over the top, even though a lineup of Ridnour, Allen, Lewis, Collison, and Pau with Wilkins and Petro coming off the bench sounds pretty good to me.
NBA All-Star Game:
So a big fuss was made about Carmelo not making the All-star team as of yet. So he's averaging 30 points a game, big deal. He missed 15 games for fighting! All he does is score, and he's not even that good/efficient at it. You know who else didn't make the all-star team? Elton Brand, Josh Howard, Zach Randolph, Baron Davis, Ray Allen, and Deron Williams. Most of them didn't even miss games, and all of them are playing pretty damn good. ESPN has a poll (http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/polling?event_id=2767) on this, and one of the questions is who least deserves to be on the team: Marion, Boozer, or Parker? It's obviously Parker because he's just not that good in the first place, and Boozer and Marion are both phenomenal players have great years. But my question is, why isn't Allen Iverson on this list? He's a horrible shooter, a selfish player, and he isn't needed on an All-Star team.
The biggest beef I have is the labeling of positions. The starting guards are Kobe and Tracy, both of whom could could play the 1,2,3 but happen to play the 2 and 3. The starting center deal is still in turmoil with guys like Duncan and Gasol not eligible to be voted in as a center. What they should do, and this is really obvious, is insert Nash for Yao in the starting lineup. Then the lineup would be Nash, Kobe, Tracy, KG, and TD, which would probably be the best lineup you could have except for Dirk.