Here we go again...

At the risk of segregating and boring the crap out of some people...

Photo of the year?
which would you have picked?
VS

Hmm...as a Knicks fan, I'd say little Nate on the left but as a man with a tremendous respect for those that play D...=S...incidently, the Big Ben rejection on Shaq won photo of the year on NBA.com.

The wonders that is Foxtel has finally delivered, with three matches across four days, I managed to catch them all. =D Just some random thoughts on what I saw and the new season in general...

• What the hell is with the free throw shooting? It's worse than ever...
• The new zero torelance rule has it ups and downs. It's good they're cracking down, but why take away the emotion?
• LeBron James, is an offensive force. That man is un-guard-able. His D and free throw shooting however...
• Chicago looked good on D beating Miami by 42...but then have lost two in a row...what the?
• Apparently back-to-back games are more difficult then ever. Boy, do teams struggle on the end of them...
• Odom, is just playing nuts at the moment...even WITH Kobe...

Just a concluding point: What do people think of technology in sports?

I refer to the use of technology to make correct calls, etc. (The third umpire in cricket, the red-eye thingy at the tennis, the shot review in the NBA) I think it's good to a point. It slows the natural flow of the game down and takes aways some of the human element of the sports. But it is effective to use, to check last second shots and stuff, nothing else. I'm really on the fence about it, because I hate it when bad calls by the referees are used as an excuse for a loss. But if the technology is fully implemented, it will slow down the game. =S

Signing off...