Game #82 New Jersey Nets 86 - Miami Heat 94

Well that's a wrap.

82 games down and a record of 47-35, which is in the vicinty of how the Fourth Degree called it at the start of the season. The regular season didn't quite go the way that many of us expected but what the hell.

The Miami Heat are in the mix as number 5 seed matching up against their nemesis, this term, the Boston Celtics who finish in the 4 spot. Boston definitely have the drop on the Heat....finding ways to win in every regular season game....cleaning up the series 3-0.

The main difference has been Rajon Rondo and efficient and safe as he has been there is no way on this green earth that Carlos Arroyo can keep him in front of him... Mario Chalmers either. I kind of like the talk that Dorrell Wright may be utilised to put the hammers on Rondo a bit....that may just work. We'll have to wait and see.

I feel that there may just be a glimmer of hope over seven games.

I didn't think it was very smart of Michael Wallace to promote the idea that the key to the series could be the Beasley-Garnett match-up....oh dear....that just isn't helpful from a Beasley point of view....Garnett on the other hand will be licking his lips. You've got a developing talent against a wealth of experience....it could go either way and if I were Michael Wallace (which I'm not) and rooting for Miami ( which he is ) I'd have left that one alone and just watched it pan out....

You look at the Boston side and you just know that there are individuals there who aren't shy in the clutch...Pierce, Garnett, Ray Allen, Rondo, Rasheed....boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

However they don't have a Dwyane Wade and if he can light it up and drag the others along with him we could be in for a tasty series. I'd love to see us win and am backing the Heat to do so BUT if we are to be "one and done" let's, at least,  go out fighting.