Friday, November 12, 2021

.530

A sports spectator (and speculator) knows both freude and schaden. They are the Siamese twins of the behavior and so on the same night that my beloved Pittwon their tackle football game my “Heats” lost their third straight and fourth in five games against the “Clippers” in LA. Also a close game, 112-109. I recognize a sometimes-pattern from seasons if .530 past with the “Heat”, the big early lead squandered. Last night it waa 15 after 1Q. The overarching pattern is the perennial, this is the start of the eighth year of this perennial’s bloom: this is a team that wins at a .530 pace and is now 7-5. Oh, there will be a deviation by the standard from one year to the other but on average winning 53% of its games year in year out is what this team has been for seven years and what it is rounding into in the eighth.