NBA Dry Spell is OVER!

Last night was the season opener for the NBA, and we had two games on TNT, and another in the western conference going to occur. Game 1 was Boston vs Miami, the “aged” Big 3 vs the “OMG how did they do that” Big 3. I must say when Lebron came out and received such a negative reaction from the crowd, well I joined in.
The Boston Celtics won in, this Celtics team’s style, to grind out the game and make defense a tool that was vital for victory. No stats today, just my reaction to being so eager for this season particularly. Miami won’t play that bad against Philly tonight, but it was great to see how that pre-celebration party that Miami had when they confirmed Bosh and James, well now we can all say for sure that was premature. The one big problem that this team has, is there big man situation, and how nobody can generate offense down low, which means their inside out game is hard to come by. Defensively Miami is weak in the four and five spot, which will hurt them with bigger line ups like Orlando, Lakers, Boston, Dallas, Spurs, Houston, Portland, etc.
“OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”, “OVERRATED”. Now Boston fans, I first thank you for a great chant, and this will catch like wildfire to all arenas during a Miami game. I am not a Boston fan, but man did I cheer them on last night, and it felt good to see this Miami team pick-up its first dent in its armor.

The first game was good for the second half, but the second game was great throughout. Houston had Yao return to its line-up, and the Lakers hung their 16th championship banner. This game was well played offensively, and Rick Ademle did a fantastic job of keeping Houston in the game while playing with essentially two different teams, one with Yao and one without Yao. Brad Miller looks to be a great pick up for Houston, and Luis Scola had an impressive double-double and a beautiful fourth quarter. The game did not have too many low spots, as Houston showed how well they were prepared to ake on L.A. and Kobe, although had difficulty with his shot, still helped the Lakers win with some fantastic passes throughout. L.A. looks stronger than last season with Shannon Brown showing improvement, Matt Barnes playing hard defense off the bench, and Steve Blake running the point off the bench, while still not understanding all of the triangle offense of Phil Jackson.

I don’t like L.A. but it was great to see both NBA teams give the fans a treat after not seeing a real competitive game of basketball since late spring of 2010.
This night had a playoff atmosphere, and if these are the type of games that we can expect from all four of these teams, then what a fantastic NBA season this can be.
Here It Is & Remember If Shaq did damage down low against MIA, then imagine Dwight (this Friday)!!!