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Say bye to college ball! Hello NBA Power Rankings!
Wed, Oct 1, 2008 by Purple and Gold
College basketball is already over and allow me to offer my deepest congratulations to Ateneo and San Beda for making their chief financier, Manny V. Pangilinan, squirt an orgasm like he was 18. Good Job to Ateneo for breaking the seemingly unbreakable 14-year curse and sweeping the De La Salle Green Archers in their best-of-three Finals series. Thanks to Rico Maierhofer's mysterious middle finger that bedazzled the referees. La Salle was clearly outmatched and outplayed by the Eagles who had considerable help from the three blind mice that is on the picture to my right. Speaking of something in threes, congratulations to the San Beda Red Lions as well, for bagging their third straight championship. I hope you beat Ateneo's arses in the Champions League. Or if you won't, we'll gladly do the honors. San Beda got a mini-scare against the resilient Jose Rizal Bombers but the Lions took care of business and won Game 3 convincingly. Congrats to the Bedans for their well-deserved three-peat and congratulations to Sam Ekwe for being the best import.
Congratulations to both of you but from this point forward, this post has got nothing to do with you Eagles and Lions because it's time for NBA MANIA again! Alright NBA junkies, time to fantasize about your idols again. That sounds dirty but really what I'm referring to are the Fantasy Leagues which just opened again and it's the season for the NBA and everything NBA!
ESPN has already released its first set of Power Rankings for the NBA and we, the editors of The 15th Parallel feel that we need to also make our own Power Rankings of sort because we feel that making such hullabaloo is cool and articles like these will help establish our credibility, increase our site hits and the volume of hate mails that come at our inbox every six hours. The primary basis of this Power Ranking is a combined mix of Mark Stein and our opinions -- meaning, from the amount of NBA YouTube videos that we watch for every team and the quantity of NBA highlights that we jack off to for every team or every player, especially Kobe Bryant. That's right, that is how objective and well-researched we are for these first Power Rankings of The 15th Parallel. The Boston Celtics whupped the asses of my Los Angeles Lakers last year (well because Bynum wasn't there to flat-iron them) and the Lakers are looking for sweet revenge this year. However, there are several contending teams in the East and in the West that are also looking to prevent a rematch of last year's final. These teams are the old faces -- Detroit, San Antonio, Phoenix, New Orleans, Cleveland, Houston, Utah, and some other new faces. So here we go with the first NBA power rankings of The 15th Parallel!
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Jvee Casio's final stand as a Green Archer
Thu, Sep 25, 2008 by Purple and Gold
It's not everyday that La Salle sees a player as gracious on and off the court as Jvee Casio. The Green Archers have been known to the outside world for bringing in bad-boy bruisers in their lineup, who are typically viewed as ones who try to taunt, trash-talk and outsmart their counterparts in ways that their opposition would not like. The most recent examples of these bruisers and trash-talkers would be Joseph Yeo, Mark Cardona and Ryan Araña. We may love them Archer Fans but these Archers are vilified by many rivals, especially the one engorged in blue and white. Truth of the matter is, they hardly like any UAAP player who puts on a green and white jersey with the words La Salle in trademark Old English text.
And then came Joseph Evans Casio from San Beda High School who, back in 2003, was tasked to anchor a team that was rookie-laden and still suffering from the pains of not achieving the coveted five-peat championship that they lost to the rival in blue and white. I remember seeing him first in a game in 2003 and when I look back from his rookie days days in 2003, he has really come a long, long way. He's been also through a lot of wars and epic battles. He won the Rookie of the Year award despite being under the shadow of much-touted rookies such as his guard archnemesis Chris Tiu. He was one of the keys in the miracle run of the Archers back in 2004 and he hit one of the shots, a three pointer, that defined his UAAP career as a clutch performer in the UAAP Finals against the FEU Tamaraws in that same year. That shot of his even strengthened my fanaticism and adoration of the talent and the composure that Jvee Casio has.
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Wed, Oct 1, 2008 by Purple and Gold
College basketball is already over and allow me to offer my deepest congratulations to Ateneo and San Beda for making their chief financier, Manny V. Pangilinan, squirt an orgasm like he was 18. Good Job to Ateneo for breaking the seemingly unbreakable 14-year curse and sweeping the De La Salle Green Archers in their best-of-three Finals series. Thanks to Rico Maierhofer's mysterious middle finger that bedazzled the referees. La Salle was clearly outmatched and outplayed by the Eagles who had considerable help from the three blind mice that is on the picture to my right. Speaking of something in threes, congratulations to the San Beda Red Lions as well, for bagging their third straight championship. I hope you beat Ateneo's arses in the Champions League. Or if you won't, we'll gladly do the honors. San Beda got a mini-scare against the resilient Jose Rizal Bombers but the Lions took care of business and won Game 3 convincingly. Congrats to the Bedans for their well-deserved three-peat and congratulations to Sam Ekwe for being the best import.Congratulations to both of you but from this point forward, this post has got nothing to do with you Eagles and Lions because it's time for NBA MANIA again! Alright NBA junkies, time to fantasize about your idols again. That sounds dirty but really what I'm referring to are the Fantasy Leagues which just opened again and it's the season for the NBA and everything NBA!
ESPN has already released its first set of Power Rankings for the NBA and we, the editors of The 15th Parallel feel that we need to also make our own Power Rankings of sort because we feel that making such hullabaloo is cool and articles like these will help establish our credibility, increase our site hits and the volume of hate mails that come at our inbox every six hours. The primary basis of this Power Ranking is a combined mix of Mark Stein and our opinions -- meaning, from the amount of NBA YouTube videos that we watch for every team and the quantity of NBA highlights that we jack off to for every team or every player, especially Kobe Bryant. That's right, that is how objective and well-researched we are for these first Power Rankings of The 15th Parallel. The Boston Celtics whupped the asses of my Los Angeles Lakers last year (well because Bynum wasn't there to flat-iron them) and the Lakers are looking for sweet revenge this year. However, there are several contending teams in the East and in the West that are also looking to prevent a rematch of last year's final. These teams are the old faces -- Detroit, San Antonio, Phoenix, New Orleans, Cleveland, Houston, Utah, and some other new faces. So here we go with the first NBA power rankings of The 15th Parallel!
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Jvee Casio's final stand as a Green Archer
Thu, Sep 25, 2008 by Purple and Gold
It's not everyday that La Salle sees a player as gracious on and off the court as Jvee Casio. The Green Archers have been known to the outside world for bringing in bad-boy bruisers in their lineup, who are typically viewed as ones who try to taunt, trash-talk and outsmart their counterparts in ways that their opposition would not like. The most recent examples of these bruisers and trash-talkers would be Joseph Yeo, Mark Cardona and Ryan Araña. We may love them Archer Fans but these Archers are vilified by many rivals, especially the one engorged in blue and white. Truth of the matter is, they hardly like any UAAP player who puts on a green and white jersey with the words La Salle in trademark Old English text.And then came Joseph Evans Casio from San Beda High School who, back in 2003, was tasked to anchor a team that was rookie-laden and still suffering from the pains of not achieving the coveted five-peat championship that they lost to the rival in blue and white. I remember seeing him first in a game in 2003 and when I look back from his rookie days days in 2003, he has really come a long, long way. He's been also through a lot of wars and epic battles. He won the Rookie of the Year award despite being under the shadow of much-touted rookies such as his guard archnemesis Chris Tiu. He was one of the keys in the miracle run of the Archers back in 2004 and he hit one of the shots, a three pointer, that defined his UAAP career as a clutch performer in the UAAP Finals against the FEU Tamaraws in that same year. That shot of his even strengthened my fanaticism and adoration of the talent and the composure that Jvee Casio has.
Read more »
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