And Then The Roof Caved In

Through the better part of three quarters tonight in Philadelphia, the Sixers were actually doing what their record, if not their recent head to head results, said they could do: hang with the Miami Heat. To my eye, they actually looked like a better team, in that their ball movement was better, their ability to handle the ball was sound, and they held the lead nearly as much as the Heat did. If the Heat didn't have Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole hitting from beyond the arc at historically unsustainable levels (they combined to go 6 for 8, when they are much more likely to go 2 for 8... and every time the Heat started to pull away, my laundry snapped right back into it. Jodie Meeks, who looked lost and overmatched last year in the playoffs, was stepping up into his threes and looking confident, and when Meeks is good, this team can be very, very good. I was enjoying the game a lot.You know, kind of like the first three quarters of four out of five playoff games last year. Which ...