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Friday, May 13, 2005

An Irreverent Look at the Series

By Mike Wise

Send in the Terps

Alonzo Mourning flexed his manly biceps and pointed toward the heavens, just like the old days. That skinny runt Damon Jones even posed and preened toward the home team's bench after a devastating three-pointer.

Damon "D-Dog" Jones?

The Miami players are beating down the Wizards one lousy playoff game at a time. By Game 4 tomorrow night, it might be time to make a broom for the Wizards.

There is one last-ditch hope left, one strategy yet to be tried:

Pipe down, Kwame, it's not you.

It's the Maryland fellas.

That's right. Eddie Jordan has to ditch the game plan and go with what won this area its last ounce of basketball respect. More Juan Dixon. You've got to trust Steve Blake in his last days as a Wizard, if for no other reason than the kid deserves some major minutes to prove his worth in the free agent market. Laron Profit should get a run, too, because he also helped put the Terps on the map.

We know this is risky and might cut into the Big Three's minutes. But what would it hurt? If this city is going to see its greatest pro basketball season in almost two decades go down in flames, you might as well go down with hearts that burn to play this game more than any No. 1 draft pick will ever know.


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