"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
12 November 2005None of that tedious defense stuffA lot of shots taken, and a lot of shots made; it's just that Dallas made a couple more of them along the way. Mavericks 109, Hornets 103. This moves the 4-2 Mavs ahead of the 2-3 Bees in the Southwest Division. Next game: at Miami on Tuesday, before returning to the Ford on Wednesday to play Denver. (McDonald's has a promotional deal; they ask, presumably rhetorically, "Are the Nuggets Chicken?" Now that's irony.) Later: The Oklahoman notes that the game was a sellout, even with both OU and OSU home football games the same day. Posted at 9:34 PM to Net ProceedsIs it just my imagination, or are you really getting into the old roundball? Posted by: Vickie at 6:40 AM on 13 November 2005Serious novelty value here, what with (1) an actual NBA team (2) just down the street. This is not something one tends to find in sleepy little prairie towns. A contributing factor, of course, is the sheer irony of the Bad Weather Capital of the World picking up a major-league franchise, albeit temporarily, because of really bad weather somewhere else. And really, "temporarily" is the operative word here. There's a sensation around here that we are being tested, to see if we really are the hotshot boomtown we'd like to think. (Let's face it, for a city of 530,000 and a metro of a million and a quarter, we do a pretty good job of staying off the national radar.) Personally? I used to fall asleep between the World Series and March Madness. For me, this is perfect. |