THE LOOK was a little more frazzled than normal, the hair more mussed. Brett Brown met the media before Friday's contest with the Miami Heat and he looked as though he had already seen Dwyane Wade throw in 30 points (Wade scored 21 without playing the fourth quarter in a 112-102 Miami win).
That is where Brown is: sometimes bordering on insanity, most times hiding it with an enormous amount of inexplicable optimism for a team that fell to 8-54 with the loss.
Lately, the former seems to be outweighing the latter, and with good reason. Friday, he was informed before the game that the two big men he is trying to mesh were going to be sidelined.