I had the pleasure of hearing Hubie Brown utter the phrase "the painted area". Aural bliss for any basketball fan. Also, there was a good ol' knockdown-dragout basketball game at the FedEx Forum. It'd be quite possible to talk about this game until dawn...but I've gotta ride 40 miles then work seven hours tomorrow, so a teeny bit of brevity will have to play into this discussion. Impossible to condense into a few thoughts...but here's my best attempt... MARC GASOL PICKED A WONDERFUL TIME TO COME OUT OF HIS SLUMP. Okay, that's it...bedtime. Just kidding, but the Grizzlies obviously came prepared to see just how far they could push the mismatches they knew they'd find in that fabled painted area, and push they did. Over and over again. Gasol had 24 points, with half of those coming from the foul line. That is a Gasol game, no doubt about it. Due to foul trouble along with a complete inability to stop Marc, the Knicks threw four or five different defenders at him, including the venerably irritating Rasheed Wallace (who did the best of the bunch, channeling his inner '04 Piston with a great combination of footwork and Bowen hands). Conley with 16 and 8 and only two TO's. That contract doesn't look quite so bad now, does it (it actually didn't at the time)? Huh. Zach Randolph had 20 and 15. Hey..is that a yellow orb rising in the eastern sky? It's hard to say much about ZBo's performance from