Good Guys vs Bad Guys
When I was 11 years old, a live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit theaters. My two brothers and I, immediately after seeing it the first weekend it was released, convened to the backyard and proceeded to beat the holy hell out of each other with various objects, including but not limited to, whiffle ball bats.
It's been 17 years since this happened but I'm pretty sure we took turns being Shredder's foot soldiers (bad guys) and the Turtles (good guys.) Big surprise, but whoever played the role of foot soldier absorbed a sizable beating.
note: we did the same with G.I. Joe. No word on if we'll duplicate the backyard brawls after seeing the upcoming movie.
That is until sides were switched and he who did the beating now became the beatee.
Skipping over violence in society and the strange, homosexual undertones (get your head out of the gutter, sicky) of the last sentence, I can't help but apply the same dynamic to the Suns game last night.
The first half saw the Nuggets as Leonardo and his band of merry mutant turtles, beating the crap out of the mindless foot soldiers (I guess that puts George Karl in the role of Splinter...not sure who is uglier) at every opportunity. The Suns were helpless to defend against the Nuggets and their arsenal.
But a funny thing happened at halftime, almost as though the teams decided to switch roles and make it the Suns turn to dominate. This is about as silly an analogy as I've ever made but how else to explain the Suns' offensive explosion and the Nuggets seemingly rolling over dead?
Whatever the reason, it was incredibly exciting to see Steve Nash and LB soften the Nuggets up so Amare and Shaq could hit them low over and over again at will.
Matt McHale of Deadspin and most notably Basketbawful makes a great point about tonight's game...Coach D played only seven guys last night and with the second of this back to back in Denver, the Suns will surely be gassed. I'm not sure what will happen tonight and I highly, highly doubt it will be nearly as fun to watch as last night's game but you never know, the Nuggets might be down for another game of good guys vs bad guys.
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