I Just want to say one thing...D-Wade Basketball!!!

Forget Kobe, forget Labron, forget everyone... Dwayne Wade is the best player in the NBA and he is proving it now. He is the effing man! Go Heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Andre dont hate!

A tale of two superstars, Mavs Dirk Nowitski and Miami's All-World guard Dwayne Wade

Miami was rocking, the mediots were talking, Dwade going to do the socking.

Stifling D-fense at the end was huge

But none bigger that this shot to send it to OT with 2 seconds on the clock.

We are watchign a legend in the making folks. Dont you forget that.

GET RAPED MAVERICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WE ARE COMING TO TAKE GAME 6!

Indomitable!

Heat to hot to handle, just look at the dancers.

If your 7 footer is looking up at a guard you know you have a problem.

GP looked like his former self when he hit the game winner.

Riley and all of miami at the edge of thier seats as GP does his thing above.

D-Wade eliminates all hope for Dallas when he breaks up this lob with 1 sec. to go.

HELP COMES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS...

I believe that when you reach hard times in your life, help is sent your way. Now I am not refering to conventional help. No one is going to materialize right before your eyes and save the day. But there is definitely something sent to guide you. You just have to keep your mind and heart open to them. Some can be very obivious and some can be missed very easily.

I recently got turned on to the muisc of a jewish/reggae/rapper Matisyahu and his music has really spoken to me. Its one of those things were you have a question or problem in your head and suddenly you hear the guidence towards the solution in a verse and its like wow! Its as if I had never heard it or if I had, I never interprented it in that way. The message in his music is positive and guideing and I really enjoy the realizations and conclusions it has helped me achieve. Now this is not all due to his music so dont think I am glorifying him or something along those lines, but if you have not heard him, I recommed you do. A song i really like is Warrior.

It all comes down to this point. We are not hear on this world to work for money and live to try and get by. We are hear for a much greater purpose, and throughout the generations we have lost touch with many things that could have helped us realize that purpose. For example our spirituality, the majority of today's youth population continues to decrease in spirituality. All they care about is the pop culture around them, thats all they know. They idolize thier favorite singers, actors, athelete etc. MAN in general needs something to believe in, a God if you will. Whether we think there is one or many, the history of humanity has demonstrated that every major civilization had a spritual belief in some form of god or another. How many countless spiritual lessons have been lost to the ages due to ignorance and the fight of others to prove that thier way is better than the rest. How different would this world be if the conquistadors had not destroyed the major native american civilizations? People that were light years ahead of the spaniards in astronomy, mathematics, etc. Who knows...

The human mind is limitless in its power. That power lies within us all and it only has to be taped into. But how? Thats the question right? How do we do it. Some say meditation, others say thier faith in God, the rest dont have a clue... I know there has to be a point in everyones life where they feel a void within. Now a days we look to fill it with all our material possesions, but is that ever enough? NO, no its not, aleast not for me. When I filled that void with anything other than god it felt unsatisfiying. I would have to go on to the next thing because the joy the previous one provided was short lived. Its a never ending quest to fill the void but it never gets satisfied. Not untill I realized that I am one with god. I have never looked back and I am a much stronger person today for it. So I thank god for all the direct and indirect help he has sent my way.

Closeing thought: Music is a powerful tool, use it wisely and with positive intentions and it can give sight to the blind (pop culture america & world)

Thanks for my life God.
Aldo J. Bendana Jr.

Looks like the Heat underestimated the power of the Dirk-Side...





Just like the US national soccer team underestimated the Chezck Republic today and got whooped 3-0. The begining of this sports week has sucked for me... Everyone is getting blown out! The both these teams(the Heat, Team USA) need to regroup and refocus themselves if they want to achieve thier goal of a world championship. The same goes for us fans, so I dont want to see any mopers and cry babies spreading the negativity. We got to believe and feed them positive engery. Lets Go Heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Lets Go USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw this on someones blog and it reminded me of whats important, so maybe it does the same for you guys.

TEQUILA & SALT

1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.
   
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.
   
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they dont like you.
   
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks of you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. You are special and unique.
   
8. Someone that you dont even know exists loves you.
   
9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
   
10. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take another look.
    
11. Always remeber the compliments you received. Forget about rude remarks.
    

And always remeber... When life hands you lemons, ask for TEQUILA & SALT and call me over!

(angry tortise) #'s 9,10

I have so much to say but i just cant put it in to words today. its kinda throwing me off right now. Its semi-irritating. Well i guess i will dedicate this day to reading others blogs.

Wow the Heat are very disapointing on Game 1 of the Finals. Need to learn to play against the zone, and go back to playing in the paint were we can dominate. Horrible performance.

Whats the deal peeps. I know I have been MIA lately. Dont worry I will be back with somthing new soon. In the mean time, here is an update on coaching flag football. My team is coming along nicely. We had our third game in 5 days and we currently stand at 0-3. But its cool cause these games are basically preseason since everyone makes the darn playoffs. So we let the kids now that there is no pressure and that we are just going to tweak the strategy throughtout the regular season so they can be ready to go come playoffs. We have not been able to practice much due to horrible game schedules by the commissioners office. We had a game on Saturday and then Monday and Tuesday. Thursday will be the first practice since the first game. Let me tell you that now that I have seen my team and its pros & cons, I will be drilling all practice long. We need to work on a couple things. The first Game was ok, we did not capitalize on goaline situations going 1-3, but the defense played decent. Final score 8-6, they got a two point conversion and we missed it. The Second game was against the orange team which appear to have the white reincarnation of barry sanders. The kid can flat out run, and has that ability to change directions without loseing any speed. They beat us 21-7 but it was not as bad as the score makes it seem. Thats the best team in the leauge right now and they all have been playing together for years. The team is progressing quickly. Yesterday was the 3rd game and the best defensive wise. They scored on an error by one of my safteys. I had instructed him to stay in his zone to avoid any chance of the runner cutting back to the open side of the field but he bit towards the middle and sure enough the runner cut back and took it to the house. But that was it for them. Nothing more than three and outs for the rest of the game. I blitzed the shit out of that team with my corners and they had no answer. Unfortunately the offense continues to struggle in the red zone and we missed a couple chances to score. But the key is the progression of the kids. Its like nite and day since the first time we worked with them. Things are definitly looking positive.

Close minded people and the sad but true outcome.

Have you ever gone through the experience of haveing tons of friends in your network, to one day coming to the realization that your network looks like the rival network portrayde on the Verizon wireless comercials. I am sure the feeling sucks. I mean you were once a person with connections to everyone, everywhere you went and suddenly its gone. Well thats sort of what happens to closed minded people in my opinion. If they dont see eye to eye with someone for some reason, they just burn the bridge. I known plenty of people like this, including myself. I must say that I believe I have gotten alot better but I tend to fall back on my old ways sometimes with some people. The key to getting better though is to realize they way you are. Let me probe the mind of such individuals by giving thier main view of the subject.
Ex.

"Someone did such and such to me, why should I try to fix the relatationship if they dont."

This is the common type of response or main train of thought of the persons I am refering too. I know there are people out there that really suck, and I am not implying that you try to do something about those type of people, but if its an old or close friend, and if all of it comes down to some type of misunderstanding which is usually the case, then I think that this train of thought is just a way to self-inflict problems and pain into your life. I have had a couple occasions where this has happend to me and have tried to fix it, but it was like talking to a wall. To top it all off, I make the mistake of getting very angry due to the frustration it brings. I dont understand how to break down those walls of iron clad will! How do you show what you truely mean when you dont have the means or the audience to do it? Thats the million dollar question. I will have to get back to you guys when i figure it out. I will end this by saying that people need to experience life and what other people (friends) have to offer, and you cant do that if you are living inside of your self-erected iron wall enclosure. If you dont you are most likely to suffer a long lonley life behind the iron clad door of your ego.

A moment of prayer and silence for the victims of the earthquake that struck Indonesia.


May they be at peace, May thier hearts remain open, May they awaken to the light of thier own true nature, May they be healed, May they be a source of healing for all beings.

Can you feel that HEAT ! The Pistons can! (Right Andre)

The Heat take thier 3 games to 1 lead to Detroit to try and seal the deal.

Wade County was rocking after this spectacular drive by Dwayne Wade.

The bench celebrates thier teams efforts.

This play was one of the most beautiful/ugliest plays ever!
The deisel gets to truckin.

Miami's Super Men #1

La Pachanga!!! somewhere near The world famous

Well i cant wait till this weekend. We are heading out to Isla Morada for Memorial day weekend. Every year Hundreds if not thousands of people come down to party harder than ROCK STARS at the one and only TIKI BAR. Saturday is the crazy day and Sunday we will head out to Rodriguez key for a well deserved R & R. Let the good times roll.

UPDATE: IT WAS EFFING GREAT. I PASSED OUT AS USUAL AT SOME POINT IN TIME, BUT IT WAS A HELL OF A GOOD TIME.

Its Official!

This week marks my first flag football season as a coach. I figured i would start with flag football to get my feet wet and then move on to tackle. Mike "the turtle dove" Gutierrez and myself are the co-head coaches and we are going to start practice some time later on this week. I will take defensive coaching duties and Mike will handle offense, but we will both be involved on both sides of the ball. Time to make a name for myself. They say defense wins championships but Aldo coached defenses establish dynasties.

I'M EFFING SINKING!!!!!!!!!!ARG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The start of todays day has blown! I feel like if I am in quicksand. The more I fight the more I sink in it.

Update: It turned out to be a good day and i am thankful for all i got.

A Basketball critic on the 305 Boyz.

Luis " the high flying rat" Bendaña:

Pros: Good ball handling & Penetration. Solid short and mid range shot. Solid runner in the lane. Solid rebounder. Solid post game. Good initial effort but must improve conditioning. Good quickness when fresh.

Cons: Inconsistency, must improve court awareness and passing. Has tendancy to push off on rebounds. Needs to improve conditioning. Needs to work on switching off of picks. Needs to learn to move without the ball instead of giving it to some one so they can take on the entire defense by themselves, like he just tried before he got tired and passed. needs to work on cuts to the basket since he is more of a slasher.

Mike " the sea trutle " Gutierrez

Pros: Good accuracy and range of shot, good court awarness, good passing. Good offensive awareness and play execution.

Cons: They dont call him a turtle for nothing. must improve initial quickness and conditioning. needs to be more consistent on the boards, needs to develope a first step. Must improve defensive awareness and quickness. needs to move with out ball on cuts and rolls to the basket

Alex "Master of Disasters" Niemoff-Arvesu

Pros: Great post presence and hustle, Great effort on defense, Good defensive awareness. Good rebounding. Block shot specialist.

Cons: Needs to imporve Offensive awareness and passing. Needs to work on finesse moves in the post since he preferres to power it in. Needs to improve his short and mid range shot. Needs to improve on defensive switching after a pick. Would do well to develop a short hook in the lane. Needs to work on pick and roll and cuts to the baskett when he does not have ball.

Albert "Stars in your eyes" Castro

Pros: Good initial quickness and first step. Good ball and head fakes, Good accuracy and range on shot. Solid court awarness. Solid post skills.

Cons: Needs to improve stamina, and regain old quickness and form. Needs to improve passing.

Adri "my balls are on fire" Castro

Pros: Good fakes and takes to the basket, good rebounding, solid shot blocking, solid defense.

Cons: SLOPPY AS FUCK, needs to take it up stronger, needs to improve passing, needs to penetrate and dish. Needs work on switching of the pick.

Vince "sure shot" Perri

Pros: Good hustle and intesity, solid in defense, has good range and accuracy on shot.

Cons: Looks like a boy among men with his 5'5' height, needs to impove offensive awarness and passing.

David "livin in the past" Rodriguez

Pros: Good ball handling, good ball control, Solid rebounding, good ball fakes, solid quickness.

Neg: Lack repituar of moves besides usual perdictable move, needs to work on left hand. needs to work on defenseive awareness. Needs to improve passing and cuts to the basket. Needs to develop a jump shot to keep defenses honest. Needs to stop smoking ciggarettes and cock.

Aldo " My head will crack Cranium" Bendaña

Pros: Good offensive awarness, good post presence, solid rebounding, Good short and mid-range shot, Good court awarness. Solid defense

Cons: needs to imporve post game, pick and roll actions and cuts to the basket. needs to improve on boxing out and rebounding. Needs to develope a left dribble and work on the right to improve quickness. needs to work on switching of the pick. Needs to improve first step and ball fakes. Needs to work on the spin move and layups when playing with mike G. Needs to develop or should i say wants to develope a outside shot. needs to improve passing.

Miami is #1


#1 in ROAD RAGE! What a surprise right? Shit, anyone in Miami could have told them that. Its the only U.S. city I have driven, where you absolutly have to be an A-hole to get by. I have a daily struggle after work at around 6:00pm to try and get on the expressway ramp to the 836 from 72Ave. Its the norm around these parts, there is no surprise. I predict that in about 10 to 20 years they are going to come up with a survey that states that driving in Miami makes people more prone to dying of a heart attack in thier cars. Well atleast we have something to brag about to New Yorkers.

First images of 9/11 Pentagon attack



The first images of the pentagon attack on 9/11 were release today. It is a photo slide show of still frames that show the plane coming into the picture very low to the ground. If it didn't seem as if it were going very fast, you could mistake it for a car. You cant really make out a plane. Its just a glimps of the front of something. We all know that amount of disinformation out there, and I just dont buy all the crap that the people in control feed us. Why does it take untill today for these people to release a 5 frame slide show? Makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about it. Well, what can we do? Just keep putting the peices together in hopes of one day getting to the truth. Click the link on the word pentagon at the begining of this post to see the actual slide show.

Coming together nicely.


Looks like the heat were just messing with us all along. Atleast thats what appeared to be the case. Who was that #8 out there? It sure as hell was not the Twan old. And what about the worn out Glove? He is starting to come around, and if he can consistently hit that 3 ball, the Pistons will be in for a rude awakening. But the thing that I am most excited about is that it finaly seems as though all the players are realizing what Pat Riley invisioned all along. Its as if they started out square pegs in a round hole and suddenly morphed into round holes. Dwayne Wade seems to have lost his tentativeness twards the basket and has got that fire in his eyes again. He is going strong to the basket, and getting people involved when they try to double him. I think establishing himself first is the key and then start drawing defenders and dishing for easy baskets. I think that this team will suprise many if they keep it up . Go Heat!

Jordanesque?




Not quite, but it is sure fun to think about it. The kid they call the Flash, is he for real? I think so, and I think he is going to be terrorizing this league for a long time to come. As far as Basketball skills go, Dwayne Wade is among the best if not the best in the entire league. Now this is were all my pro-Labron & pro-Kobe make belief readers come in and argue. You can argue about this, Kobe was never the player Dwayne is today at the same age. Kobe throughout the years became what he is, but Dwayne has had IT all along. He reminds me some much of this one player. Someone who's name i dont like to speak off when comparing a player, but they are just so similar. Granted Dwayne needs a couple more years in the league, but once he gets all the nuances and develops that three point shot that eluded Jordan for half of his career, he will be unstopable! This kid can only stop himself, skies the limit. So you heard it hear, in about 10 years, we will be asking who is the next Dwayne Wade.

BETTER GET THAT "W"

I dont care what style, color & shape. Just get the damn "W" tonight.

Go Heat!!!!!!!!!!!!