Everything I wanted to say….

Hairston might push Finley for minutes, don’t you think?

  Impressive. If this keeps up, saying Blairs ceiling is Paul Millsap will be severely underselling the rook…

Highlights anyone?

Interesting that everyone thought the Spurs would pick Chalmers but we went for a heralded guard from a very famous school in George Hill from IUPUI. In this game, the Heat guard sort of outplays our backup PG. Sort of, because he played more minutes too.

So… the guy in the highlights called DeJuan “Heavy D”. Where did that come from? I saw it here too, somewhere.

The last sequence in DeJuan’s layup, the one where it looks like he kind of lands on his right hand while doing a semi-split? That blew me away. Is he a ninja or what?

Blair is for real!

Why can I pay to watch Summer League online, but preseason which is 100 times more important and better basketball is impossible to see!?!?! I hate the NBA sometimes.

Its kind of scary that Blair is only 20 years old.

Does anybody know why Haislip didn’t play tonight?

I’m liking the 28 points, but not so much the 4 rebounds, ah well.

Who got offended?

cant wait till they play memphis.

blair is gonna own the crap outta thabeet in the pro’s.

BTW, in anyone else here weirded out by the position of Ian’s left arm/hand in the photo above? If his arms flail around that wildly, I think we’ve found the reason for his foul troubles.

Hey all…yet another close one, but happy to see the win tonight. The Blair kid had another good game, I see, and I was wrong about who the top contributor would be, once again!

so i expect hariston to be the last man standoing…jerrels is good m.williams in this past few games hairston just tops him….malik shows defense which is more important than scoring…second is thathe can score at ;east 4-6 pts off the bench plus a block and a steal if his with us?wow….blair…his greatness will continue i guess his taking revenge off those teams that didnt pick him…second i hope,blair,as being underrated will prove everyone that he can be the rookie of the yr…hmmm…22 minutes he can get 19 reb(it depends if shots,opp,doesnt fall)but hey why not 22 minutes 10 pts,10reb,1 blk,0.5 stls 3 ast?he proved it that he can do those things in limited minutes.

Man I was at the game last night and let me tell you…Blair = legen…wait for it….DARY. And clearly Pop doesn’t care about winning preseason games, as we were down 13 in the fourth and Parker and Fin were still sitting. It’s a good test to see what the young squad can do and they definitely didn’t disappoint. Jerells looked pretty good as well. He hit his FT’s (let’s not even mention Blair at the line :-\. I rolled my eyes a number of times, he was 6 for 10) and looked pretty comfortable on the court. Total opposite of that…? Marcus Williams. Williams looked especially uncomfortable on the defensive end, and looked lost a couple times like he was playing a cross between zone defense and man defense.
I don’t think Blair will really eat up into Finley’s minutes, as was mentioned above, Pop will likely insert him as a spot up shooter when we need some quick points. He knocked down some solid shots.
Speaking of minutes, it’s also clear that Hill has secured his minutes, no questions asked. He shot 5 of 7 for 12 points in 17 minutes and he was another one that was not inserted when the Spurs were down 13 in the fourth.
Jones picked up 3 fouls with only 2 points and did not prove his worth defensively. He played lacklusterly and I was pretty disappointed.

Miami didn’t have the greatest squad, but Daequon Cook did knock down a couple of wiiiiide open 3’s, and Chalmers was great.

In general I think our defense kind of lacked. The numbers might say one thing, but there was a real lack of energy on the court with our backup squad, until we were in deep doodoo. Some Heat players got wide open looks and took a bunch of uncontested shots. Other than that, I’m freaking excited for these guys, Blair especially.