August 4, 2020

 

An early morning bus ride to the WWOS complex started off my day.  When I say early morning, I mean 8:00am. Today’s game with the Nets taking on the Bucks starts at 1:30pm so 8:00am is considered early morning, at least to most television people.  I love games that are played early.  I am an early riser so I would just as soon get my work out of the way then have the rest of the day off. I am clearly in the minority here.

 

Remember earlier how I ripped on the Nets and Wizards and Kings about not belonging here at the restart?  Today, the Nets ended up beating the Bucks.  Had the Bucks won, they would have secured “home court advantage” for the Eastern Conference Playoffs.  I put that in quotes because will anyone really have a home court advantage? Everyone calls this place home for the upcoming months.  They will receive the number one seed but hardly a home court advantage.

 

Milwaukee decided to rest their starters all or most of the second half, so Brooklyn took advantage of that and led most of the game walking away with a surprise win.  Why Milwaukee didn’t play to win I don’t know, but then again I am not the coach, I am a camera operator.  I am sure there is some sort of strategy here, but I like to win as much as possible.

 

The game and the day had nothing out of the ordinary.  Day becomes night, night becomes day, day becomes night, etc.  At least that is what is starting to occur now.  However, on the bus back to the resort, there was a great deal of lightning in the distance, and as we disembarked from the bus, thunder was audible at a pretty consistent rate.  The lightning increased, the thunder grew louder, and I was looking forward to a nice downpour during this late afternoon. It never happened.  Lots of thunder, lots of lightning, not much wind, and no rain.