6 Thoughts
1) Three-mendous! Miami makes a season high 14 triples, including a franchise record 8 in the 4th quarter. Stay even with Philly for the 5th playoff spot, 41-36, 5 games to go. It's late, I'm exhausted, second game in a row without M.Minutos, on assignment in Milwaukee, let's roll through it...
2) Like I said, it's only a matter of time before James Jones busts out...Broke open a close game with three straight triples early in the 4th quarter, pushing the lead to 9, and effectively putting the game away. He missed his other four, but still, in those two minutes, he was smoking hot.
3) Also hot in the 4th quarter with 3 threes of his own - DWade, who made 4-7 threes, 15-17 free throws, and 3-6 twos to finish with a very effective 33 points.
4) Thunder Yak Diawara started in place of Udonis Haslem, out for the rest of the regular season with stitches in his thumb. Recently we referenced a "mutant strain" of Heat fans who were complaining about Erik Spoelstra's treatment of Mike Beasley. Those were harsh words, and it was wrong to use them. There have been times where we at Dos felt Beas should play more down the stretch of games, specifically when Haslem was nursing his bad back and the Heat were struggling to score. One of those fans is Dos' second reader from Scotland, "Faither," and he has a Heat blog of his own, which is, by the way, far more professional and competent than this site. Here's a link: http://miamiheatseason2009.blogspot.com/. Exchanged comments with him before the game and he successfully predicted that Coach Spo would start Diawara instead of Be Easy. Spo's rationale was that he didn't want to break up the rotation, that he wanted to keep Beasley in his normal spot so that the rotation was not too jumbled. Faither believes that Spoelstra has a specific agenda to keep Beasley down and retard his progress. Toward what ultimate end, I am not sure. But this isn't even a criticism of Faither - he has an absolute passion for despising Erik Spoelstra, and that's cool. It certainly is a unique take, and we welcome creativity above all else at Dos Minutos. On this night, in this game, at this defining moment of the Heat season, everything was fine: Thunder Yak made 4-9 threes of his own for 16 points in 29 minutes, and Mike dropped 13 points and 5 boards in 25 minutes. Even better for the rookie - he really moved the ball nicely, including one genius drop-down to a cutting Jermaine O'Neal for a layup. Four assists for the rookie - that's progress...
5) A fourth quarter conversation between Heat broadcasters Eric Reid and Tony Fiorentino revealed that Eric has an absolute passion for watching college lacrosse on tv. Ugghh. That's it - just, ugghh.
6) Well, it's spring time again, and that means it is time for "Dos Minutos' Annual Top Ten English Guys." The rules, as always: 1) you must be reasonably famous, so personal friends do not count; 2) we give precedence to English guys, but reserve the right to use anyone in the current or former British Empire if we run out of names; 3) in the case of a tie, preference-wise, the more "English" guy wins. Here we go, from 10 up to 1:
10 - Daniel Craig, the new Bond. Could rank higher - not totally sure he is English.
9 - Classic 80's hip-hopper Slick Rick. "Once upon a time not long ago, when people wore
pajamas and lived life slow..."
8 - Pete Townshend.
7 - Prime Minister Tony Blair. Think he might not be PM anymore, in which case this slot goes to the current PM, and Blair falls to 7, and Slick Rick gets knocked out if Daniel Craig is English, stays in if he isn't.
6 - Clive Owen.
5 - Phil Mickelson.
4 - This is where it gets tough, because you start to run out of people. I am going with Guy Ritchie here.
3 - Naomi Campbell. Hot, black, and bitchy...and English.
2 - Madonna.
1 - For the 12th year in a row, the Most Admired Dos Minutos Englishman: Hugh Grant! It was a landslide again, by the way!
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