Guy Berger

Impressive play, great D by Detroit. Looks like SS owes Jim another CD. Guy

Great game so far. By the way, it looks like I might be right with the following prediction:

I think the league took issue with Wallace's silly conspiracy theorizing, not with Shaq's garden variety complaints about the refs. Guy

Prediction: assuming Wade is not a complete cripple tonight (he WILL play regardless), we may see something like the Jordan flu game or the Isiah Thomas ankle sprain game. Guy

7 out of 10 ESPN writers are picking the Pistons for tonight's game. Tradesports (online betting markets) are calling the Heat 11-9 favorites. Guy

Keith Jarrett is playing at Carnegie Hall one of those days. (I don't know which, but I should -- I have tickets somewhere!) The Motian/Frisell/Lovano and Rite of Strings trios are sharing a double bill at CH around that time too. Guy

Alright, I picked up CV and Tribute new (for $11.50 and $21 respectively). I'll be on the lookout for a relatively cheap copy of Dance... Guy

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Any recommendations for these (aside from the most recent one)? A lot of them seem to be out of print domestically so I want to narrow down my choices before paying $20-25 a disc. The ones I'm especially interested in are Conception Vessel, Tribute and Dance. Guy

Chen's a really nice guy. I saw him give a seminar on the paper mentioned in the article and it was interesting. He has a whole cottage industry of papers on various species of monkeys, and he wants to do research on more primitive primates. I'm not sure how valuable this research is as "economics" (you could make some arguments that it does) but it is interesting. If you have some spare time and want to be amused, go to his website and watch the quicktime video of the capuchin monkeys trading coins for food. Guy

It's a team sport, Guy. One guy alone means nothing. That's what makes the Pistons so tough. The Pistons are unusual in that they have a collectively strong starting 5, none of which are superstars or (with the possible exception of Big Ben) irreplaceable. On the other hand, without Wade the Heat offense completely breaks down since he's the only guy on the team who can routinely drive to the basket. I think the "no Wade in game 7, no Heat victory" is a safe, rational assessment. (I agree with you that those are the breaks, though.) When healthy and putting up his regular season numbers, you might be right. But I think at this juncture Wade is more important to the team than Shaq is. Guy

Last I recall, the Pistons only had to play the Lakers in the playoffs last year, not any of the other teams that were better than them. Guy

At the very least, the Spurs, Wolves and Lakers (possibly the Kings too) were better than the Pistons last year. Sometimes the best team in the NBA loses due to bad luck (the Spurs against the Lakers last year), and sometimes it's an attitude thing (why the Lakers lost in the finals). Guy

Of course, if the best player in this series isn't playing tomorrow then the Pistons will win game 7. Guy

4th or 5th best Guy

Wade not playing, Shaq hobbled... Miami is in trouble unless Wade plays, and plays great, in game 7. Now, if they somehow manage to injure Duncan, the Pistons might actually win the title. Guy

Arrgh... I'm looking at a cart full of OJCs and trying not to click "pay". Guy

Has anybody tried to put the ignore function on themselves? Will the board implode?

A few DVDs of the 1967 and 1969 quintets have been posted on DaD -- I prefer having only the audio, so I haven't downloaded them, but I'm sure they're pretty cool to watch if you're into that sort of thing. Guy

It's not safe to make such an assumption. The vetting only means that these guys weren't displeased with anything that was in the bio. Guy

If it wasn't so over-the-top I wouldn't have said anything. But last night, when he rebounded the ball, held it out to show off, and then had it stolen by a Piston -- how lame can you get! Guy

Is Gabor Szabo on these albums? ← Szabo should be on most of the Chico albums and on Lloyd's first album. Lloyd's second album for Columbia was with Herbie, Ron and Tony IIRC. Guy

By the way, does anyone else agree that Alonzo Mourning deserves the "Biggest Tool of the 2005 Playoffs" award after that rebound=>turnover near the end of the game? Guy

I think you'll dig it -- the first two discs especially. Byablue's been growing on me as well. Guy

ESPN says he is questionable for game 6. I assume as long as the injury is minor and the pain isn't too bad, he'll play. But it's a lucky break for Detroit when they desperately need it. Guy