And this is a good picture.

Ugly bastard.

That’s really the only shortcoming we have on Tim Duncan after the three-time NBA champion scored 23 points, dished out eight assists, and grabbed nine rebounds in route to a 103-92 victory in Game 2 of the NBA finals. Leaving him half-way to his fourth title and most likely another NBA finals MVP award.

In what can only be describe as a, “Who the fuck cares,” NBA final.

(that is of course is you are lucky enough not to live in San Antonio or Cleveland).

After Game 2, I thought to myself, “OK, that’s the worst it can get.” But suddenly, when the 2nd quarter buzzer sounded last night, I felt like Helen Keller’s parents when they thought she was only blind.

A 58-33 San Antonio lead. And complete depression because football is still a few months away.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are embarrassingly over-matched. In every way. Lebron did have a better game, scoring 25 points on 9-21 shooting. Along with 7 rebounds and six assists.

But for Lebron, that’s a “good” game. I stressed in Part I: If Lebron’s not enough…, a “good” game, a “good” series from Lebron, will produce a cluster of brooms that will most likely smell like shit seeing that they’ll be coming from Mex…..excuse me, San Antonio. And so far, it’s, Game 1- bad and Game-2 good. Which has led to back-to-back losses by an average of 10 points. And if it wasn’t for a 4th quarter outburst by Cleveland (when the Spurs cared as much as I did), that average would be a lot worse.

It only took four minutes into the 1st quarter for Gregg Popovich to realize he would have an easy day at the office, after Cleveland’s best shooter, passer, rebounder, defender and slasher went to the bench with two fouls.

Ha, who said Eric Snow? Good one.

After Lebron was forced to sit for the better part of nine minutes in the opening period, San Antonio took advantage of the JV and beat them around like a pledge during hell week.

You would think when Lebron reentered the game, it would even out a little bit. Nah. Actually got worse. It just made me ask myself this question over and over again,

“How the hell did they beat Detroit?”

How!?

On a bright note, Drew Gooden and Daniel Gibson had another solid game, scoring a combined 28 points, on 12-24 shooting. I know, it’s funny, because those numbers just seem so average. And they are. But that’s the best Lebron’s got.

For example, (And for the record I know the dudes hurt, but still, if he’s playing, he better play)Larry Hughes. Overpaid, can’t hit a shot to save his life, slap me in the nuts Larry Hughes. Even though he played just 20 minutes last night, that’s 20 minutes to many. In the NBA finals, Hughes has scored 2 points, on 1 of 10 shooting. You know what’s sad? If you add up those three numbers (2, 1 and 10) it doesn’t even add up to the amount of money in millions Larry is getting paid this year ($15 million). He has scored ten points or fewer in nine out of the last ten games. Again I know that the string of bad games occurred after he was injured, but it’s not like he was averaging 30 before that.

The Big Three for San Antonio was again good enough to grant San Antonio a relaxing second half. Outscoring the entire Cleveland team 43-33 after two quarters. Led by Tony Parker’s 30 points, the Big Three combined for 78 out of the teams 103 points.

The series has been a complete joke up to this point. It’s over. It will be fun to see how crazy the Cleveland crowd is, though. Also, if you have time. Check out the message boards. It’s always amusing to see what the fans of a team getting their asses kicked say after a game. I can’t wait to see the, “It’s going to be too rowdy for the Spurs.” “The same thing happened last series against Detroit. We’re fine.” “Lebron won’t lose at home.” “The role players, while not great, play considerably better at home.” “The Spurs will probably take them lightly now, since they have a two-game lead.

Blah. Blah. Blah.

Lets give them a break though. They are from Cleveland. And their basketball team instilled a bunch of false hope in their minds, which, when you’re from Cleveland, will only lead to consummate misery.

Sadly, it’s something they are all too familiar with.

Spurs suck.

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