21.   He gets to be John Calipari watching his team dismantle Georgetown.

22.   He had to watch a team abandoning the strategic principles that had succeeded all year.

23.   He has not bothered to watch other teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs, although he did speak to his brother Wednesday.

24.   He is watching a team of volunteers from the Fellowship Baptist Church of Rome, Ga., build a new home on the spot where his old one stood.

25.   He watched a team that almost never practices more than an hour.

26.   I do know after watching this team the last two weeks, that few of the players know anything about winning.

27.   I hate watching other teams in the playoffs.

28.   I want to watch this team.

29.   In between handshakes, Miller watches the team and worries about starting goaltender Stephane Fiset, who injured his knee the night before in Anaheim.

30.   In the role of ego manager stands the diminutive and dour Jeff Van Gundy, the coach who watched his team through dark circles this preseason.