Random Day One Overreactions

1) The Celtics are who we thought they were. They are going to defend. They are going to knock people on their asses. Unfortunately, they are also going to keep teams in games especially if Doc continues to give us more of the "oh shit" lineups with which he opened the 4th quarter (Rondo/Nate/Queesy/FFD/JoN) - they were one Ilgauskas questionably moving screen away from only being up 3 in a game they had more or less dominated.

2) Relatedly, as bad as Miami played last night (and it was really, really, bad. Everybody point and laugh at Chris Bosh, "superstar"), they were still right there because Lebron is just that good, and once Wade gets his sea legs, even good teams are going to have to play better than the Celtics did last night to get it done.

3) That said, the Heat made the cromagnon offense Mike Brown ran in Cleveland look revolutionary. And their interior defense is...not good. Again, everyone laugh at Bosh as the "anchor" of a defense. This team has holes, and unfortunately for them, those holes play very much into the hands of the other top teams (Magic, Celtics, Lakers). It's very possible that they are good enough in other areas to overcome this, but a lot of the "crown their ass" type stuff from the preseason will hopefully subside a bit.

4) Moving on to other games, Nic Batum! My man. Also according to BlazerNation, Wes Matthews justified the entire $30 million of his contract in one night. He was that good! Blazers 82-0!!!!111one!1!1!

5) Adelman needs to do a better job of managing Yao's mythical 24 minutes so that he isn't done with 7 minutes to go. Though to be fair to Adelman, it's possible he did it that way because Yao was A) in foul trouble; B) a foulbox so he was just going to play him until the inevitable hackfest. Houston's gunner guards (Martin and Lee, looking at you) should also probably recognize that 19 foot pull-ups with 16 on the shot clock are pretty bad shots when Yao is on the floor.

6) LakerFan continues to make my head asplode. Let the overrating of Shannon Brown, superstar, commence. That said, Steve Blake was a truly massive pickup for them. Even aside from the game winner (that pass was 147% intended for Pau, btw), the viable "gee, let's just let our PG torch Derek Fisher's corpse" has been taken off the table for an end of game strategy. Even though Fisher is going to keep his starting job, Phil Jax has already signalled that Blake is probably his finisher against teams with dynamic PGs.

What did everyone else think?