[Editor's note: I'll be checking in while taking it easy in the Lowcountry, but coachk has stepped up to fill the void and continues to hit it out of the park in the diaries. I'm pulling up his comments on the game last night. My only comments are, make the bad man stop. I guess I'm just warming up the beach for the Pacers because they'll soon be joining me on vacation.] Loved the start, rough second quarter. Granger hit the bunny to make it 32-30 Pacers, but then the game (and playoffs) slipped away as the Magic went 13-0 over the next four minutes.  Even this optimist is at a loss for words this morning.

So, moving on....

.....as Mike Wells writes, the losing is wearing on JO and he might want to play elsewhere next year.  Similar sentiments from Paul Pierce in yesterday's Boston Globe.

I'm always struck by the stories about the superstar on a bad team who wants to move to a contender -- even moreso when implicit in the story is the suggestion that the superstar "deserves" to be on a winner.

Who says?   Why is the superstar more deserving to play for a winner than any other player?  Why aren't similar articles written from Jeff Foster's point of view, or Brian Scalabrine's? Losing doesn't bother them? I just find it curious.

Ok...the LoNny belongs to Cornrows. I intruded yesterday.  For the rest of his swing, I'll stick to lines that are more loony than LoNny.  I might never find a line more enjoyably loony than Cuttino Mobley's last night.

26 points and nothing else.  Not an assist, rebound, steal or block. Not even a turnover. Did he throw a pass? Was Elton never open in the post?? Mike Bibby missed 9 threes. Not one bounced long and into the Cat's paws? I don't want to see a single highlight.  I much prefer the vision in my head of the Cat standing on the wing, flinging three's, then standing there and watching the play go the other way.

Oddly, he had 5 fouls. At first, I assumed that they came at the end when the Clips had to foul. But the Clips won the game! Maybe the Clips had fouls to give, so he gave them. Maybe he got bored and tripped guys as the ran past. Who knows. I'd hate to learn that he bothered to contest a shot or something. Someone needs to alert the Sports Guy. He'd come up with a name for a line like this.

26-0-0-0-0.

Now that's loony.