41.   And Tim Duncan, Popovich said, is only now starting to play like the player who was arguably the best in the league two years ago.

42.   And the Mets have played like wannabes.

43.   And Woods proved again that nobody plays quite like him.

44.   And, finally, playing like one.

45.   Any wonder his team played like it was in the haze that surrounded the Coliseum?

46.   And, he said, he played like the Lacher of old.

47.   Antoine Walker stopped being a future All-Star and played like a current one.

48.   As a sophomore, he waited his turn to play like most underclassmen.

49.   As dramatized by two actors outfitted in unwieldy spandex-like garments holding vibrating sensors in place, it played like a parody of a porno flick.

50.   As it is, the film plays like a collection of duet-acting exercises.