Real Deal

He's had 2-3 posters already this season, and 3-4 others that were pretty damn close to being posters, if the player contested it or tried to take the charge. Griffin is going to be a power forward version of Dwight Howard, less defense and a far better offense. Dunk city, and the new Round Mound of Rebound. Watch out.

Welcome to the best.

When Jackson doesn't hold practice, Kobe goes and works out for six hours to fill up his routine. Six hours a day, six days a week, for six months a year, a specific workout routine he does mostly in the off-season. Let's not compare Kobe to Bosh, ever.

He won't let them chill? FIRE SPO!

Well, the Heat didn't even want him...and the Heat need all the bigs they can get.

The only good thing I've seen Barea do all season so far is throw that nasty lob to Chandler...but other than that, haha...

Everyone playing 10+ minutes per game is shooting over 45% from the floor OTHER than Ariza and Bayless. You don't see much of that in the league. You have to give props to their defense, though. While CP3's defense is top-notch right now, Okafor and Ariza have been excellent for them, especially Emeka (which is refreshing, because this is the player we hoped to see when he was in Charlotte, with another 9-10 PPG, of course). If Nash could win his MVPs for what he did while averaging just 15-16 PPG scoring (and I believe he averaged under 20 for his other MVP award) while not playing a lick of defense, CP3 should be a strong candidate for what he's doing.

I really have no idea why he was still shooting the ball. I know Harris was having trouble, but there are other options. Sadly, the Nets had a good opportunity to win this game. Millsap and Williams both struggled. The problem was that the Jazz weren't turning the ball over (they had like three or four TOTAL turnovers), and the Nets had more TO's than they did assists.

Wow times ten. I had no idea it was the other knee. Man, that's even worse than I thought. Hell of a task to come back from all of this and be the player you could've been without the injuries.

Kansas, because I am biased and I think they'll win every year.

Stick Gallo on the block, do whatever it takes to get Melo. If Denver still wants Gallinari, there ya go. Give them Gallo, Douglas, Randolph, Mozgov, whatever. The idea is to form that Melo-Amare-Chandler trio, and put a big and a point around them (Raymond works for now, but not in the future).

The injury tonight doesn't help his cause, either. It might be time to consider hanging it up, unfortunately.

Barea SUCKS. And what a screw-up by Dirk. That previous play that Kidd had (steal and save) was huge for Dallas, and set them up for a big play to the rim. I have no idea why Dirk threw the ball behind his back. Even if he was making a move to the rim, you don't do that as a seven-footer because you don't sit low to the ground (like a CP3) and you aren't exactly quick with the ball to begin with.

He's basically done, dude. I've seen him about four times this season, and in one game (don't remember which it was), he shot around 50% and grabbed a few boards, but in the others NOT including tonight (and he wasn't playing that well tonight, either), he doesn't get any lift on his jumpers, he doesn't have any lateral quickness, and he looks like he gets tired quickly. Not really sure how much more there is to say about him, honestly. He's better than Wilcox, White, Summers...but after that, I don't know. I would take Bynum, Maxiell, Charlie V, Gordon, Monroe and even Jerebko over him (if he wasn't injured)...and that's out of the bench players alone.

Wow.

I have a feeling you'll be rooting for us in a certain NBA Finals match-up...right?

I always tell myself that Kobe needs his rest, and it's always a good thing when he gets it...but damn, why can't he just score 50?

Sullinger would get killed at the three, especially when he's asked to defend guys like LeBron, Durant and Granger. He would have to shed a lot of weight and gain a ton of lateral quickness, because he's super slow right now if we're comparing him to other college SFs.

I want to mention Selby, but like Sean said, there's just not enough to look at yet. I have to see him this season before I judge how well he may do in the pros. Harrison Barnes is a great pick here. Kyrie Irving...I think he's going to be that type of NBA point that needs a good, demanding coach to tell him how he's going to play in a particular system. Otherwise, I'm worried that Irving is going to go into scoring mode, when actually, his best feature is passing the ball and getting his own looks when necessary. Sullinger needs to work on that defense, and this is a college big who has a lot of trouble around the rim, putting up shots against players taller than he is, although there aren't really very many significant players on a college level that can contest that shot of his due to his strength + wingspan. In the NBA? Big difference. Someone like Gasol (who is a seven-footer and has a long wingspan) will turn him into an irrelevant player quickly. Perry Jones isn't more NBA-ready than the top players in college basketball, but he has the most potential out of all of them, including Barnes. Terrence Jones is another to consider, but again, he may be in the same boat as Perry Jones.

Kobe with 31 points and 9 boards with four minutes to go in the third. I like aggressive Kobe. *cue white girl joke here*

I like how, when the Heat are losing, it's Spo's fault...but when they are winning, it's still Spo bashing time, and it's the big three getting it done. I guess Spo doesn't tell the team to go to Bosh this game (due to the Suns' size) and to contest everything on the perimeter all game long. It was probably Wade telling them that in the locker room, while Spo was getting a drink out of the water fountain. FIRE SPO!

This will be the death of the Suns. Steve Nash can't play big minutes anymore, and when the guys aren't knocking down threes, they will lose games. Live by the three, die by the three? Yes sir. Sadly, this wasn't exactly the problem when Amare was there, because Nash and Amare could play the two-man game, pick and roll and to the rim, but Hakim just isn't that guy.

I feel like a little too much weight is being shifted over to who is doing different things, and not enough about who is still going hard, period. Did you guys actually like Weezy's "revolutionary" music, when he decided to throw rap and rock into a box and shake it up? That [expletive] was garbage. It's cool to hear something different, but there's a reason why old hip-hop never dies. People complain about how rap needs to rise from the dead again...and a lot of it is directed to those current artists that go away from the trend, rather than stick with it. I always hear people say they want the old Eminem back, especially when he released Relapse (which sucked). Now, suddenly, they are looking for something different from him? He gets pounced on when he tries to sing, got criticized when he would take shots at people in his music, called a homophobe, called sexist, called out for piggybacking artists, and it never seems to satisfy anyone. Going, "Oh wow, that's something new, that's cool," it just doesn't make much sense when some of your favorite music was all produced a long time ago, duplicated over and over again by other rappers.

It's the system, it's Kobe, and it's Gasol. It gets players a lot of open shots. You saw the same thing with Trevor Ariza. Brown just didn't shoot well on a consistent basis last season because he was playing with a broken hand or thumb (don't remember which). It was a big reason why Vujacic was getting minutes, honestly.

Juggling between this, the banners, the team forums, board updates, and a few other things. Sorry guys, I'll get to it soon.