The Sound Of Basketballs On Playgrounds And All...

Finally! A night where I was able to sit down and watch some basketball games. I was able to flip back and forth between the Nets-Cavs game on ESPN and the Spurs-Grizzlies game on Fox Sports Southwest. After that I was able to watch the tail-end of the Texas Longhorns and Arkansas Razorbacks game on ESPN 2, followed by the Mavs-Sonics game in the late slot on ESPN. It was a good night. And if you didn't know, the Nets, Spurs, Longhorns, and Mavs won. Isn't that simple? Anyway, I took some random notes throughout the night. Here they are:

• Mikki Moore looks like Spanish from Old School. If I ever meet Moore, I won't be able to live with myself unless I ask him if he trusts that I've provided him with enough rope so that his block will land safely on the lawn.
• The Grizzlies play a lot better than their record indicates. Although I'm going to attribute that to the fact that they now have Pau Gasol back in their lineup.
• The Spurs are quietly doing their thing this season. They are flying completely under the radar, they have the best record in the NBA and the best point differential and nobody is talking about them. They are right where they want to be.
• Jason Kidd probably has the best combination of reaction time and awareness in the league. It's amazing to watch.
• It's 70's night in Seattle? Where are the throwback jerseys? Where are the coaches in bell-bottoms? I remember when the NBA had "Turn Back the Clock Nights" about 10 years ago and the Sonics wore their old jerseys and George Karl dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Now those were the good, old days.
• Bob Hill's hair is in mid-season form.
• Speaking of hair, Mickael Gelabale from the Sonics has the same hair as MTV's Sway.
• I'm not totally sold on Kevin Durant yet. The potential is there (hate that word), he's got the size and athleticism, but I need to see more. He looks like a taller Josh Howard, which is a scary thought.
• In the first half, Luke Ridnour gets called for a foul because Jerry Stackhouse stepped on the back of his foot when driving to the basket. Didn't know that was a foul, I guess I'll have to study up on my rulebook this weekend.
• If the Sonics get the #1 pick in the draft this summer and take Greg Oden (which they should), they will have taken four straight centers with their first round picks over the last four years. Hopefully one of them will start to be of some use.
• With 8 minutes left in the third quarter, Johan Petro gets REJECTED (required to use capital letters for that block) by Devean George at the rim. Looked a whole lot better at game-speed than it did in slo-mo.
• Chris Wilcox would have a lot more points and rebounds in this game if he would just come down with a rebound and then go back up with it instead of trying to one-hand-tomahawk every ball that comes of the rim. As I write that last sentence, he finally converts one. Whatever.

So I finally got a good night of basketball watching in. And you finally got some game notes to read. We're all happy now aren't we? I thought so.