6 Thoughts
1) Taking care of business, easy win at home against Memphis. Up 16 at half, game never in doubt in second half. 38-32, 12 games left, keep on pushing, next goal is to get to .500. Not a compelling game, really, let's just breeze through this...
2) The Beaz Markie with a breezy 17 points, 9 rebounds, and one post-game visit to the Sunsport Winner's Lounge where we learned Mike prefers yellow mustard to spicy mustard, likes to do somersaults when he falls because it is easier to get up after rolling, and had no plans for after the game. Giggled a lot. Arguably was high.
3) Jermaine O'Neal missed the game with a sore hip. Enter...The Big Cat, Jamal Magloire! First double-double of the year, 10 points and 12 rebounds in 28 sweaty minutes. Found a soul mate in beefy Grizzly rookie Marc Gasol. Those two have similar absolute passions for banging into other large men in shorts...
4) Daequan Cook's shot is M.I.A. He hasn't broken 10 points in 9 games. He is the one pure outside shooter Miami has, but since winning the three point shooting contest at the All-Star Game he is just 36% on threes, and that includes one 6-8 outburst against Phoenix - that is pedestrian for him. He is seeing his minutes cut, which hurts Miami because they lose the best floor spacer to play with Wade, and lose their best on the ball perimeter defender. Daequan needs to get his swagger back somehow.
5) Memphis has Marco (Jaric) and Darko (Milicic). I am surprised they are not a lot better than 17-53.
6) Many people took the time to comment that yesterday's sixth thought resembled the plot line to the classic S.E. Hinton novel, and subsequent motion picture, The Outsider. That's a great point - I had never quite thought about that before, but you're right, there are a lot of similarities...A couple people wanted to know if I had really attended a Devo concert last weekend. Thank you for asking, but, no, I did not. A couple of factors at play here: 1) I don't think Devo is actually a band any more; 2) Devo is terrible.
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