"It was hard to tell what the Trail Blazers were more impressed with Saturday night: Andre Miller's 52-point outburst in a 114-112 win at Dallas, or his reaction to it.

"That is one dude who does not care ... anything it takes to win, that's all he cares about,'' Martell Webster marvelled. "He came in here like nothing happened.''

"Yeah,'' LaMarcus Aldridge said. "He's in here acting like he had 10 points. I'm like, 'Andre, how about some emotion? How about some excitement?' He said 'We won.'''

In a nutshell, that's Miller. Quiet, confident, unselfish and about the team.

His performance - 22-of-31 from the field, including his only three-point attempt - was amazing as it was varied.

His first shoot was horrible, missing everything except the other side of the backboard.

But then he started hitting mid-range jumpers. Post-ups. And then it became drive after drive, some of them finished with brilliant english off the glass.

But the one that had everyone talking afterward was the running right-handed hook shot in the lane with 14.5 seconds left in regulation that tied the game at 103.

It was Magic Johnson against the Celtics in Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals."