A few things on a few things:

The Grizzlies really impressed me last night…after they really frustrated me last night. For the love of Pete, SOMEBODY hit a free throw! But to see this team – this Young team – be down by 19 points with 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter and be able to send it to OT was good to see. And to keep the intensity up through all 3 OT periods was great. Kyle Lowry impressed the heck out me! That guy looks like he’s going to be something in the NBA! Coming from absolutely nowhere to be in the middle of the paint fighting for rebounds almost every time there was one to be had…nice to see that kind of effort. Rudy Gay looked really good, too. Looked a little timid at times – maybe a little unsure of himself or his shot, but other times he looked amazing! And too see the stat boxes filled with names like Gay, Lowry, and Warrick gives a lot of hope that maybe the season won’t be as bad as I originally thought. Of course, it is only one game – and it was the Knicks, so we’ll see in the long run if I should quite so upbeat about a one point triple overtime loss.


“With the 20th pick in the 2006 NBA Draft, the New York Knicks select Renaldo Balkman.” BOOOOOOOO!!! That was the scene at the draft…and after watching him last night…BOOOOOOOO!!! He’s like a one-man wrecking crew out there. Fouling and Hacking and whatnot – I don’t think he could have looked more out of place if he were in a tutu and clown makeup.

And finally...

Enough with how great the Chicago Bears are already!! Yeah, they’re 7-0. And in the NFL there’s something to be said for that – but it’s Arizona’s own fault that Chicago didn’t lose that game. To get to 7-0, they’ve beaten the Packers, Lions, Vikings, Seahawks, Bills, Cardinals, and 49ers. And for the record – those records are 3-4, 1-6, 4-3, 4-3, 2-5, 1-7, and 2-5. 7-0 vs a combined 17-33. Shut up about how good the Bears are! Being a dominant team in the NFC doesn’t make you a good team. It makes you better than the rest of NFC…and you don’t have to be good to better than the rest of the NFC. Just look at New England’s dismantling of Minnesota AT the Metrodome as proof of what a REAL good team can do.