Running Diary Nets/Heat Game 4

First Quarter:

12:31 Miami wins the tip; Udonis Haslem makes a jumper, bad start.

12:32: Richard Jefferson missed his first jumper. Jason Kidd goes over and politely reminds him that shooting is not his strength. On the next possession he pulls an anti Vince and appropriately drives to the basket and lays in an easy one.

12:34: Jason Collins takes a charge as  Dwayne Wade barrels into him.

Has there ever been a more unknown who has played in this many playoff games? I mean this guy guarded Shaq and Duncan in consecutive NBA finals in his first two years in the league. He has been the starting center (I don’t count Todd McCullough he played the first 5 minutes and then never re-entered the game) on two NBA finals teams and four or five playoff teams and I don’t think 95% of NBA fans would recognize him.

Note that may interest only me: He has an identical twin brother who is also in the NBA, used to be in Utah but now I don’t know where he is. If I were commissioner for the day I would make a rule that starting with the 07-08 NBA draft you can draft identical twins as a package. Solely to keep them from switching identies like some crazy Mary Kate and Ashely Olsen movie.

Side note: While I was writing that last part Vince gets the rock under the basket and instead of going up strong he tries to lay it in, and misses. Why am I still surprised when this happens?

12:35 Jason Kidd gets the rebound and throws it down court to a cherry picking Vince Carter. Without any defense he confidently dunks it.

12:39 First commercial break, a chance to catch up on my writing, this running diary thing is hard I better pace myself or I won’t make it four quarters. Score Miami 14 NJ 16

12:43 Coming out of the commercial break Vince shoots an air ball three……is there a reason he doesn’t drive to the basket?

12:44 Walton mentions the Clifford Robinson “incident:.

12:44 Shaq picks up offensive foul number one. Collison has now forced Wade and Shaq into offensive fould, I wonder how many he’ll get today.

12:45 Vince Cater misses another jumper. Note I just copied that line I will paste it in from now on to save from retyping.

12:46 Vince Carter has the ball stolen which leads to Antoine Walker draining a three. How many turnovers does Vince have in this series? 30?

12:50 Nets come out of a timeout and get an easy score. Why is this surprising, shouldn’t this be the norm if you have 3 minutes to prepare?

12:51 Antoine Walker takes and misses a bad three in transition. Bill Simmons would comment about how often he hated seeing him do that when he was with the Celtics. As a Nets fan I have always loved seeing that happen.

12:52: Alonzo Mourning just made a shot and got booed. He then put his hands up to his ear in one of those ridiculous things

12:53: The Nets have John Thomas on the line. Who is John Thomas? I don’t know but I just heard that he played two regular season games for the Nets after being out of the league for four years.

12:54 Vince Cater misses another jumper. Wait no no on that didn’t happen sorry force of habit. Carter instead threw a hideous pass to “John Thomas” and it was a turnover. Why is our all star and supposed best player trying to pass it to a guy who has been out of the league for four years?

12:55 End of the first quarter, Nets 24   Heat 27

At the end of the game the full running diary will be posted on my blog at money4medschool.com. I am posting it here in hopes of getting some constructive criticism. Please keep in mind that I am writing this as the game is going on and I still need to go back and correct it. Thanks!

Date
Sun 05/14/06, 12:01 pm EST

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