1,000 Times Two, Twice

So TigerBlog has been watching a show that pretty much everyone he knows has already 1) seen and 2) raved about.

The show? 

"Game of Thrones."

He tried it once before and didn't make it past the first 10 minutes of the first episode. This time, he's gotten into it quite a bit. In fact, he's all the way through the first six seasons.

To be honest, he wouldn't put it in the top 25 of his all-time favorite shows, the way so many others would. He would say that its strength is in the imagination of the person who created it, and by doing so created an entire world and even different languages within that world.

And what is the language the Dothraki speak? It's an actual made-up language of 1,700 words. Now that's attention to detail.

The show is incredibly gory. It's almost like someone decided to have an egg timer, and when the sand ran out, someone gets stabbed through the skull. 

On the other hand, the battle scenes are incredibly well choreographed. They're astonishing, actually. TB watches them an wonders how they ever filmed them.

There is very good character development, and the show clearly takes chances and does the unexpected. There are beautiful scenes of natural beauty. The winter scenes make you feel the actual cold.

Maybe the expectations were too high, given what everyone has said about it. There are also a few too many characters to keep them all straight, and it gets very confusing at time. That said, he is glad he's watching it, and he wants to see how it all turns out.

Also, general rule of thumb so far - don't mess with Cersei Lannister or Daeneyrs Targareyen. It won't end well for you. 

One of the people who recommended it to him is John Mack, the 2000 Roper Trophy winner after a Princeton career that saw him win 10 Heptagonal titles. He swears by the show.

Mack also pointed TB to a tweet Saturday from Georgetown's Director of Athletics Lee Reed:

Wow, you don’t see that often. Two teammates scoring their 1,000th point in the same game! Congrats @JuggyBlair147 and @JamorkoP1 👏🏾👏🏾🏀💪🏾👊🏾 @GeorgetownHoops @GeorgetownHoyas @BIGEASTMBB

— Lee Reed (@HoyasAD) February 13, 2021

Reed is right. You don't see that too often.

At Princeton, though, it's happened twice for the women's basketball team.

First, it was Kate Thirolf and Maggie Langlas, who both did so in 1999, in Hawaii of all places. Then, four years later, Maureen Lane and Allison Cahill both did it, this time at Yale.

That's twice that two Princeton women's basketball players reached 1,000 career points in the same game, in a four-year span.

That information should be familiar to you, as TB has mentioned it several times before. As Reed's tweet suggests, it's a rarity that it happens, so it really sticks out when it does. And to have it happen twice is extraordinary.

TB most recently wrote about it this past fall, when he was writing a "Going Back" series here. If you recall that, TB took events that happened before the word "blog" even existed and wrote about them as if he had been writing TigerBlog when they had.

He did some games he'd attended. He did others that went back pretty far, all the way to the first football game, for that matter.

He did this for a few weeks and then bailed on it, since it wasn't clicking the way he wanted for some reason.

Still, he does think about what it might have been like to have had a blog to write for his entire time covering sports. More than that, he thinks about what it would be like to have an archive of blogs going back a few decades, instead of just the 12 years or so. 

He uses the blog archive a great deal to remind him of things he's written or to look up facts. Or, sometimes, it's just good to go back a year, or five years, or 10 years or whatever to see what the story was that day.

Also, it's good to know when he's repeating himself. Sometimes, if it's been a few years, he's okay retelling a story.

Or, if it's compelling, or becomes newsworthy again, like in the case of the basketball teammates who reached 1,000 points together. 

Congratulations to the two Georgetown players who did so (Jahvon Blair and Jamorko Pickett).

The four Princeton women's players would like to welcome you to their club.