last night I spent at least an hour watching basketball player mixes on YouTube. Seriously, we just kept throwing out all-time names - Dominique, Larry Legend, Clyde the Glide, Larry "Granmama" Johnson, MJ, Karl Malone, Charles "break your fingers with a block" Barkley...and the beat goes on.

Here's a couple of the best I found last night:



First off, Bron-Bron is just filthy. He's just doing this for his own amusement in warm-ups. This is what would happen if he entered the Dunk Contest in LV...



Spanish Chocolate, Sergio Garcia, in action for Spain over the summer. Kid needs to get that three-ball working for the Blazers on a regular basis, he's already got the speedy dishes under control.



Chuck, the round mound of rebound. As alluded to above, it's not the dunks that are best - though the explosiveness is ridiculous - but his blocks. Good god. Watch a couple of the taunts afterwards too, lol.



Clyde the Glide, Portland's finest. Free-throw line dunks just never get old, too. I want one of the old Blazer Drexler HWC jerseys like nobody's business, I love the old wordmark.

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I only watched the last five or six minutes of the second half of the Oregon-Georgetown game, but damn, I was impressed. We were playing some ridiculous defense - without any big men! Against a team led by a big man! Mind explode! Now we're 6-0, and I think we should be able to clear out the rest of our out-of-conference schedule. God, we could be ranked soon. I can't handle this, I just can't. Pac-10 games are going to rock.

We accepted the Las Vegas Bowl bid, and will play BYU on December 21. Should be an exciting game, and certainly going to Vegas is better than going to El Paso, Texas.

Blazers play the Magic tomorrow at home. Can't remember the rest of their schedule, but I'm still happy with their play after watching (briefly) the game against Indiana. How we can stay in a game shooting less than 40% is....absolutely incredible. We're losing, but not because we're a sopping mess on the court, but through inexperience.

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