Just a few random thoughts after catching Wednesday's NBA action.

Houston at Golden State

Someone in the Houston Rockets organization, coaches, teammates, friends or even family members...someone needs to tell Yao that the "Big Chinese Man raises his arms to draw a charge" thing dosn't work. Yao, your 7' 6". When a 6 foot point guard barrels into you, just knock him on his butt and take a real foul. They'll learn not to try to posterize you everytime your in the circle, especially when they get an elbow or a forearm in the nose. All in all, you might even get the block. How often do you get the charge anyway? C'mon man, use your height to your advantage.

And speaking of height, well done on showing how flawed Golden State's defense is against a low post threat. Yao was man handling the Warriors in overtime. Even Ryan "Opey" Bowen was showing up the Golden State big men. But Yao, 12 for 18, 30 points and 16 rebounds, was killing the GS Defense. Golden State has to find a way to hold an opponent down in the final minutes. They can't rely on making jump shots all the time.

Quick one liners

Ben Wallace needs to keep the red goggles, ala "The Milkman" from the movie the Super. I couldn't help but laugh when Chauncey Billups was quoted on ESPN.com saying that Big Ben looked like "Blankman". Someone had to have taped the pregame locker room conversations for the Pistons......you know that all of Big Ben's teammates were scoring on him.....even Darko was taking shots!

Somebody needs to let Kobe know to lose those god awful shiny purple shoes.....oh, and I know it's been said before, but, lose the tights too, Robin Hood.

AK47 is finally in the groove, 21pts, 16reb, and 8 count em' 8 blocks! Now all he needs is a team.

I just read that Chris Paul was left off of the Allstar ballot. Thats a shame. The rookie of the year deserves a heavy dose of write ins. Hackers, on your mark.........

Can any team out there stop Allen Iverson? Allen's averaging 34ppg. He had 39 last night on 15 of 30 shots. Just a couple years ago they were saying that he's getting older and losing his step. Last year was a career year. This year, he's blowing last year's career year out of the water.....I'll have what AI is having.

What's better right now, the Nike commercials featuring the Lebrons? Or the TNT Thursday commercials featuring Ali G?......Such a tough call. Both are funny and clever. And who woulda thought Lebron could pop and lock so well! He keeps it up, he'll be the MP3 of the league for sure!