Three of the four undefeateds fell tonight, as the Heat were idle. Raptors went down by 9, Suns by 5, and the Pacers, who were without Artest, got blown out by 34 to the Clippers. Any thoughts on this? Anyone think these teams would last a bit longer before losing?
I was very shocked that the Clippers beat the Pacers. I thought the Pacers would win that game easily. But it was the other way around as the Clippers, led by Elton Brand, destroyed them. The Suns have been looking good as well with Steve Nash and Amare Stoudmire leading the way. I think the Heat will get to at least 7-0 then fall to someone. Dwayne Wade has been playing to well lately to bet against the Heat. The Raptors losing wasen't very surprising to me. I think that the other night when the Mavericks lost to the Magic was surprising as well. The Magic have beaten teams like The Bucks, The Hornets and The Mavs but lost to teams like The Wizards and The Bobcats. They play well in the big games but they get beaten by bad teams. Very Weird.
Pacers losing was very surprising. Especially at home to the Clippers. Raptors lost to the Sacramento Kings at Arco Arena, a winless team at that point, but they came back and beat the undefeated Utah Jazz at the Delta Center, a night after facing the Kings in Arco. Highly underrated team in the making here.
The only surprise was the Pacers losing to the Clips by such a large deficit, though it looks like they have some issues aside from injury to work out. Even though the Wade is having his way with just about anyone he wants in the league, I don't expect the Heat to get through the next few games. Not sure how they'll match up against the Mavs tonight, but they have the Spurs in SA tomorrow and the TWolves at Minney on Tuesday. Even though there are some obvious favorites this season, one thing I have liked so far is that any team is beatable on any given night. I know it's still early in the season, but there hasn't been a consistently dominant team so far. (SA lost to Sonics, Jazz lost to Raptors, Pistons lost to Raptors, etc.) It makes some of those more "trivial" games more fun to watch. (Your team vs Clippers or Golden State a few years ago, for example.)
Surprise surprise. The Suns and Raptors falling don't really surprise me, since they are not supposed to be top of the league material anyways, but the Pacers getting blown out at home really is a shock. Although Artest didn't play, you would think they were enough to beat the Clippers.
The one that didn't shock me at all was the Suns losing. I thought they were one of the more overrated teams coming into the year. A lot of people were hyping them up because of their backcourt and swingmen, but, the fact that they have no one outside of Amare to really play the post is going to hurt them this year. I think they could sneak into the playoffs at around a 6-8 seed, but nothing really higher than that. They have the potential, with all those shooters, to be a Mavericks type team, but, just like the Mavs in previous seasons, a lack of big men is going to hurt them. Because, quite frankly, you can't have Shawn Marion playing power forward once you start playing the big hitters in the Western Conference.
Well I was wrong because the Heat lost to the Mavs. Oh Well they still had a nice run. Dirk had an awesome game with 41 points and 10 rebounds! I was amazed that he was lighting it up! Anyways, nice win Mavs and keep it up!
The undefeateds are no more. Mavs thrashed the Heat tonight in convincing fashion. Dirk was huge, and aside from Shaq and Wade, there wasn't much else for the Heat. And even then, Shaq only got himself 30 minutes logged tonight, which doesn't help.
Man the undeafted streak lasted no time this year eh. And I'll say I'm not surprised with the Pacers losing but losing that bad yeah. But with Artest cd coming out on the 23rd of this month and J-Oneal and Rick not really trusting him. I'm pretty sure that affected the team a bunch.
I was watching ESPN and they had were interviewing Artest. He said that he might want to take a month off from basketball because he wanted to spend more time with his kids and work on his new album. Dallas rolling over Miami was great, this will probally be Dirks best season. For the Heat however, near the end of the game Wade suffered a sprained left ankle. Now Dwayne Wade and Shaq have to stay healthy or the Heat may be going cold.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Hoggamill:</div><div class="quote_post">I was watching ESPN and they had were interviewing Artest. He said that he might want to take a month off from basketball because he wanted to spend more time with his kids and work on his new album. Dallas rolling over Miami was great, this will probally be Dirks best season. For the Heat however, near the end of the game Wade suffered a sprained left ankle. Now Dwayne Wade and Shaq have to stay healthy or the Heat may be going cold.</div> Yes that is terrible, I REALLY hope Wade plays in the Spurs game tonight. The Heat will definetly need him. I was surprised to see the Heat lose to the Mavs though. The Mavs were on fire though. When a team has a game like that theres no stopping them. Once Shaq got his 5th foul that game was over.
