So far during the NBA playoffs there have been several games that the scores have been what you could say were blowouts. If you look back at the history of sports a blowout in one game does not necessarily correlate to a win in the next game. Some cases it does not even suggest that you will even when the series in which a blowout occurred for the team winning the blowout.
Just maybe the best ever game six blowout in the 1960 World Series the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-3 to even that series at 3 game a piece. All three wins by New York were by ten runs or more. Game seven is the famous Bill Mazeroski's homerun in the bottom of the ninth to beat those hated Yankees. The blowout didn't help in game seven.
One reason in baseball is that old saying that momentum is only as good as the next starting pitcher. What about basketball? Just this week the San Antonio Spurs drubbed the Oklahoma City Thunder 124-92 in game one of their series. After a few days off from the last series San Antonio played perfect basketball and the Thunder never had a chance.
New game and a new night the Spurs didn't play nearly as well as the first game and after one of the most unusual finishes ever in a basketball game the Thunder won game two 98-97. The finish to this game rivals the 1972 Olympic finals when the Russians beat the Americans after the refs replayed the final second seems like five times until the Russians won.
What happened to make the Thunder play better and what happen to the almost perfect basketball that the Spurs played in game one? Was there any doubt that the Spurs would comeback and put up a great effort in Oklahoma City after the Spurs felt robbed by the refs in game two?
So why is it that some days you get up and feel great and the next can't hardly put one foot in front of the other. Back in my disc jockey days I went to work one day with the flu and felt awful and could hardly hold my head up. I could not wait for my show to end so I could go home and go to bed. I received several calls from listeners about how funny I had been that day. Even when my shift was over and I went to the office to tell our manager I had to leave he said to me that I had been rocking and he never suspected I was sick. I don't remember one thing about that day other than the agony I was in.
There are all kinds of situations when players were sick they played some of their greatest games. Michael Jordan playoff night comes to mind when he plaster 50 points in a game.
I know on certain night teams biorhythms just don't mesh and when that happens when another team is doing everything right it leads to terrible games. Then the next night whether a team felt embarrassed by their performance or the winning team takes the pounded team too lightly a reversal happens and that team that was hapless one night is a winner the next night.
Why does that happen? It's sports
Sunday, May 8, 2016
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