For those keeping track of Martin-Evans Vs. Planet Earth, by the way, Evans looked just fine all game, Martin looked invisible in the first quarter (0-1 in six minutes, two early fouls), brilliant in the second (10 points on 4-6 shooting in 12 minutes), iffy in the third (five points on 2-6 shooting in 12 minutes) and just plain bad in the fourth (0-4, including a blown open but off-balance lay-up and three missed threes, in nine minutes). In the end, for the pair: 47 points, .543 eFG, 13 FTAs, nine assists (eight of them from Reke), five turnovers (four of them from Reke). That sounds OK to me. Not what we're looking for from the pair, but I'll take it.

I guess, in the end, I'm like Of Course They Lost!, not Oh My God! Another Loss!. The team overachieved for a bit, and it's certainly underachieving a bit now. But we all know it's not about this year. It's about tomorrow, always tomorrow. I saw enough good in Evans, in Hawes, in Greene, in Casspi to keep off the ledge. If you're building a castle and a band of marauders steals some lumber in the cold of night, you don't throw your hands up and cry for mercy. You get some more coddamn lumber, and you assign a night watch, and you build that ufcking castle.