…got against Belinelli? Rhetorical question, I know, since you laid it out pretty starkly.

I’d disagree primarily that he has low hoops IQ and poor court vision. Since he started getting minutes he’s been more or less the most dynamic playmaker they have on the floor. He’s pulled off some exquisite passes, not just passes into pressure, but whip passes from inside-out on dribble penetration. He’s been making smart decisions about to where and to whom he’s passing the ball, which is something we typically lack.

His shot selection isn’t what I’d consider prototypical or ideal, but he balances it nicely. He did have some bad takes last night, but he also made some very heady plays, the bank shot in front of Garnett near the end in particular. He went 0-3 on a string of three pointers after that, but considering his play up until that point, I couldn’t fault the first two. The first he was riding a high, and I believe in feeding a hot hand. The second he was pretty wide open (although I was at the game, so I don’t have a replay to watch) and I remember thinking it was the smart shot. The third he shouldn’t have taken.

I didn’t get to see it on TV, so I couldn’t see if those offensive fouls he drew were flops. I did see clearly that Allen was beating him pretty ragged, so even if they were exaggerations, I’d rate them as deserved.

I am going to try to think about Tim K as a situation comedy. I do love the descriptions of him running from here to there to bring us the verbatim transcript of some important press conference or interview. I’ll try because you are having more fun reading him than I am, and are managing to put all his weak suits in perspective. I just have trouble working all that anti-Nelson meanness into the script. A good eipisode, though, would be for Timmie K to have a press conference and answer questions about his report on the Jax-Nellie problems. At the end he could declare he was moving to Illinois to run for governor because it doesn’t matter in that job if you telll the truth or not and someone has suggested to him that it does in the one has. “I meant no harm. I just didn’t know,” he can say.