thanks guys... i'm a grease monkey, not a computer geek... uploading pics on server, i think i've done that before...
i really didn't think scola would be this good this soon. how can morey not win executive of the year
As I have said, Fran is a brilliant and a very creative one. His latest piece just proved my point again: http://blogs.chron.com/franblinebury/2008/03/the_rocketburg_address_rockets.html March 12, 2008 The Rocketburg Address: Rockets 83, Hawks 75. One score (wins) and six weeks ago, our Rockets brought forth on this continent, a new team, conceived in Intensity, and dedicated to the proposition that all NBA teams are not created equal. Now we are engaged in a great winning streak, testing whether that team, or any team so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great hardwood floor of that winning streak. We have come to dedicate a portion of that hardwood floor as a final resting place for all of the previous losses and playoff failures of T-Mac, for the broken bones of Yao Ming, and for those who gave their careers in Rockets' red uniforms so that one day this streak might live. It is fitting and proper that we do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we can not consecrate, we can not hallow - this floor of basketball dreams. The hustling men (Luis Scola, Chuck Hayes, Carl Landry), living and of dead shooting percentages (Rafer Alston), have consecrated it, far above the poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what Dikembe Mutombo and teammates did here. It is for us the watching - and them, still playing - rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who have made clutch jump shots and played tough defense and made the unsung Shane Battier plays thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for the players to be dedicated to the great task remaining before them on the regular season schedule - that from these once-dead Rockets (15-17 on Jan. 2) we take increased devotion to the cause for which they have given their last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these once-dead Rockets shall not have died in Toronto and Philadelphia in vain - that this streaking, winning, white-hot team, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom from playoff failure - and that championship basketball of the people, by the people, for the people of Houston, shall not perish from the earth. ----- Abraham Dunkin, March 12, 2008
