6 Thoughts
1) First of all, I just watched an NBA team score 86 points in double overtime against a team without its three best players. The Nets really earned their 12-70 record this year. Second of all, the Heat won the game when Yakhouba Diawara banked in a three - his first of the year, which isn't hard to believe because he has only played 40 minutes and scored one other basket all season. Thirdly, Jesus, I don't know - but that was something. I don't think it was good, but it sure was something. Also, if Wade, Udonis, and Jermaino didn't have to play tonight, I don't know why I have to write this blog.
2) Well, it's Boston in Round 1. I feel more comfortable against Atlanta myself, but the Heat, although they sat their best players, didn't blatantly tank the game, which would have earned them the Hawks. C'est la vie - both teams won more games than the Heat did, so get your mind right, and take your best shot. Game 1 will be either Saturday or Sunday in Boston.
3) Jax interviewed Jermaine O'Neal before the game - he is still on "vacation," but says he will be ready for this weekend's playoff game. Jax told the audience that Jermaino would be on the bench tonight, wearing a nice suit and looking good as he always does, but did NOT mention epaulets. I am not saying I would call out JO on the epaulets - I mean did you see the punch he laid on the fan in the Indiana brawl? - but I like to think Jax is better than me.
4) Eric and Tony were geeked up tonight, rooting for Carlos Arroyo to claim the assist-to-turnover ratio "crown" tonight, which he would have done with a turnover free game. A first quarter transition bounce pass to a loping Michael Beasley was kicked out of bounds by Beas, and Eric and Tony noted with discernible consternation that Carlos was hit with the turnover instead of Mike - which meant that Carlos needed six assists to nudge into the ratio lead. By the way, yes, this is a somewhat meaningless accomplishment - I mean, the accomplishment is not turning the ball over all year and getting a lot of assists. There is no trophy for having the best ratio, or anything. I mean, at least not one that Eric and Tony don't have made for him. Anyways, the second quarter starts up a few minutes later and Eric reports that in between quarters, the turnover was re-assessed to Beasley. Odds that Eric accosted the official scorer? Either 99.9% or 100%. Moments later, Arroyo travelled in the open court - turnover. The basketball gods, man, the basketball gods. Anyways, nothing is better than Eric keeping track of records - he hasn't been this geeked since Anthony Carter hit a three pointer on the last possession of a game like a decade ago to extend the Heat's consecutive games with a three streak alive at about 10,000 games.
5) Best thing about the Nets? Pretty tall.
6) Okay, last regular season # 6. We're not going to get all weepy; we're not going to reminisce; we're not going to say how it was a great season, or blah, blah; we're not going to thank people, especially not our readers; and especially not our readers who write in to say we are idiots; and especially not the one reader who blamed his relationship troubles on the blog, and called us idiots, and then stopped reading the blog! We're not even going to make a "Kumar leaves his White House job joke" - okay, a quick one, with no set up and no punctuation: He was upset about the passing of the health care bill and standing up for what he believes in as a champion of democratic principles the rules of Congress and capitalism No he needed to make another movie about smoking pot By the way thats the same reason Sarah Palin quit as Governor of Alaska except instead of making a movie about smoking pot she is traveling around the country getting paid for sucking on poor white trash tea baggers' asses...What we are going to do is list the five best tv sitcom sidekicks ever, from 5 to 1.
5 - Kramer
4 - One of the gay dudes from Will and Grace (for political correctness)
3 - George Costanza
2 - Norm from Cheers
1 - Schneider
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See you this weekend in Boston. Could be the last four to seven games Dwyane Wade and/or Udonis Haslem ever play for the Heat. That's sad. Let's hope they go out with an upset series victory - I think if the Heat win the series, Udonis should shave his head. Going to see what I can do about that. Until then: four wins away from Bald Udonis.
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