When Eric Musselman and his staff carefully pieced together this USC team through the transfer portal last spring, the lineup announced Tuesday night ahead of the Trojans' 88-71 win over Maryland was probably not what they had in mind. Ryan Cornish, the Dartmouth transfer starting at one guard spot, didn't scratch the rotation until December. Kam Woods, the other starting guard, wasn't even enrolled at USC until late last month.
The most notable development from the Miami Heat's 120-119 win over the LA Clippers, which moved the Heat to 4-3 on the season, is that Erik Spoelstra has gone small once again. After playing around with Nikola Jovic and Kel'el Ware to pair up with Bam Adebayo, Spoelstra went back to his preferred method of three guards on the court with Andrew Wiggins and Adebayo as the two "big" men.
