If there is one thing thats great about watching the NBA, it's watching it on TNT.

I watched Houston beat Dallas in a great game tonight.  Both teams played tough, but Dallas just doesn't have enough heart to pull it out.

Both teams had great playmakers.  T-Mac at times put Houston on his back and rolled with it, including hitting the deciding shot of the game with 2.2 tics left.  Yao Ming is simply an offensive monster when he wants to be.  There's no question he's the heir apparent to Shaq.

For some reason, Dirk Nowitski has simply been off in this series.  He had a good fourth quarter in this game, but he's been nonexistent in the seven quarters prior to that.  You can tell Mark Cuban is frustrated at the way his guys are playing.

One guy that might be gone in the offseason is Keith Van Horn.  He had a good third quarter, but he looked lousy down the stretch, including not picking up McGrady on the winning jumper off the Yao Ming pick.  Magic Johnson (I'm about to clown him in a second) felt it was due to Van Horn being an "offensive player", but that's garbage. 

First, this isn't football.  You have to play on both ends on the court at all times; in fact, the biggest problem Dallas has is that they don't make defensive stops.  Second, it wasn't like it was a complex play.  All Yao did was set a high pick - a play they killed the Mavs with all night - for T-Mac to come around and shoot the 15 footer.  Switching off to the ballhandler is something you learn to do in middle school.  With only eight seconds left on the clock, you can't afford to give a sharpshooter like T-Mac that kind of space.