How to Recover From Being Posterized

   Last week wasn't Brandon Knight's week. After bruising his ego by getting jammed on by Deandre Jordan in the Dunk of the Year, Knight sprained his ankle the next game, increasing his unwanted trending time by another day. But lucky for Knight, it's a new week, and there's a new victim. He goes by the name JET. 

   Jason Terry and LeBron James are not friends. Terry was the cockiest member of the 2011 Mavs teams that beat LeBron in the Finals and just this week he said that he wasn't impressed by anything the Heat have done. So of course it had to happen this way. Wade had to steal that ball from Terry, flick it to Chalmers, who passed it to Cole, who lobbed it up to none other than James. 

   Thanks to ESPN we know the rest. We know that Terry was standing under LeBron when he threw down a monster dunk, leaving Terry on the floor and LeBron standing over him in what is surely one of the most badass dunk reactions in recent memory. 

   Terry is not the same guy as Knight. With his history against LeBron, he can't send a tweet that makes light of the posterization. So how can he recover? The way I see it, he had four distinct choices. 

   1) Dunk on LeBron: Straight up payback here. Obviously difficult with LeBron's athleticism coupled with the fact that Terry doesn't really dunk.  

   2) Retire: This may help people forget about Terry faster. Then he will be relegated to YouTube's obscurity, a la Alton Lister. 

   3) Hope: Hope that ESPN just loses interest in covering the best team/player in the game. Then Heat highlights/replays won't be shown as much. 

   4) Perform: Have a big series against Miami in the playoffs. Although this in no way guarantees a win (ask Jeff Green), this will gain him some national TV respect and also give Celtic faithful some silver lining in Terry's overall disappointing season.      

P.S. You impressed yet, Jason?                                                                   

   

LeBron Making It Look Easy

   Okay, the Heat scraped by an undermanned Celtics team last night, but it's amazing how once the Heat came back in the fourth, no one was shocked when LeBron hit the go-ahead jumper with 10 seconds left. Much has been made of the Heat's 23 straight wins, LeBron's mini-streak in February and Wade's killer March, but we don't hear about LeBron's late game heroics.  

   After he smartly drove to the lane for a legit game-winner against Orlando two weeks ago, LeBron hit another game-winner and no one was surprised. With his high shooting percentage, especially from three, LeBron is starting to climb up the clutch rankings, statistically and not. With all the improvements he's made after the 2011 Finals debacle, you'd think that more would be made when it finally clicked for LeBron. Well, it's sure clicking now. And LeBron is so good, we barely noticed.