Back home with a 2-2 record - considering three road games at three 50+ win teams from a season ago, Boston, New Orleans and Dallas, you'd take this start. The next four games are against teams which failed to make the playoffs, but if you said that to Mike Brown, he'd just say we're not looking past the Bulls...period. It's that hammer swing at a time that will serve this group well...and so is their defense. I thought the effort in Dallas was there for 48 minutes.  This is a championship defensive team, when everyone is on a string as they were against the Mavericks.

Ben Wallace is having an impact again, not only rebounding, but with his toughness, and everyone else is following suit. Delonte's length was in full display with those three steals in the opening quarter, and the Cavs never looked back. Offensively, this team will find ways to score, as it did against the Mavericks and Bobcats.

But I must admit, the highlight of my trip to Big D wasn't Wally's baseline drive and crush, or Ben's two handed rejection of Dirk Nowitzki, or even LeBron's repeated touches in the low post. Nope...it was meeting Mike Brown's sister-in-law after the game. You see, she is the identical twin of Mike's wife, Carolyn. I knew they were identical, but I became a babbling fool, when introduced to her, because Liz is AN IDENTICAL TWIN, to the point she even sounds like Carolyn. I'm sure I wasn't alone in this mis-identicification, and I'm sure Liz and Carolyn probably played tricks on teachers in school along the way, but you had to see it to believe it!!! 

If you are old enough to remember the old TV commercial for the double mint twins, for Wrigley's gum, Liz and Carolyn would give them a run for their money. They would fit right in for twins day in Twinsburg.  Every time I see Mrs. Brown at The Q, I will now pause, turn my head, and say hi...Carolyn?