General game-day thoughts/comments

[atlwarrior]

I found Steve Francis! Man he used to be one of my favorites. He still is. I hate to see he and his career had to come to this. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Steve-Francis-checks-into-Chinese-game-with-iced?urn=nba-297966

[[Q]]

holy crap it was a great game. i was misinformed where the seats were. they weren't on the baseline, but on the sideline about free throw line area on the camera side of the court. 5 rows back. blake griffin is a savage. gordon was sick. the only thing that i didnt like was that it was a 20 point game for most of the 2nd half so the stars didnt play much at the end. oh and i think darko got hurt in the early minutes

[The X]

Some random thoughts:

- Drew Gooden seems to be kryptonite to Andrew Bogut's game. I'm sure some sorts of stats back this up.
- Sean Marks plays, Bogut plays poorly.
- Sean Marks is the first guy giving a high five either on the court of off it. It's great for Portland's team morale.
- Nice to see Paddy Mills getting backup minutes in Portland.
- I'll admit I was wrong about Matthews. I thought Blazers wasted their MLE on him.
- Blazers seem better without Roy, more free.
- Blake Griffin, a potential All-Star in his rookie season
- Nice to see Dallas win.
- On that topic, I'm surprised to see San Antonio-Dallas 1-2 in West. Not surprised they're good, but a bit better than I thought at this stage.
- Nice to see Acie Law repping Texas A & M. I like Law since his stellar Big 12 days, but like many of the guys I like in college (e.g. John Wallace), they just don't pan out in the pros.

[[Q]]

yeah i dont know about gooden & maggette they just aren't skiles type players like mbah a moute and ilyasova are. still havnet figured out the bucks yet.

[kibaxx7]

Vujacic played 30 minutes for the Nets

No surprise for that. He's a scorer with a good touch at the 3pt. line. I'm pretty sure that the Nets will give him that much playing time again in their future games. But I hate that guy!!!

Lol, yeah he's a nice scorer and can score 3pt with ease, but he hasn't played for the Lakers in months, practically. That's why it surprised me for him to get 30 mins right in his first game.

Arenas, J-Rich, Turk losing to the Hawks...

[Houndy]

Mavs baby, beating the Heat again

[Martti.]

I'm not terribly fond of Dallas.

[shadowgrin]

Dallas is not terribly fond of you either.

[Lamrock]

Dallas sure got their revenge for the Heat stealing the 2006 NBA championship in a series that made the 2002 WCF look fair by beating them twice in the regular season.

[rise]

CHA vs. OKC

WTF is Matt Carroll starting at SF? He's a guard. Why start Matt Carroll when you can start Derrick Brown or McGuire?

In fact with Wallace out, I'd go with:

Mohammed
Thomas
Diaw
Jackson
Augustin

Diaw is really a small forward.

Also Kwame Brown is starting at center and Mohammed is coming off the bench

[Lamrock]

Maybe they're starting Carroll at SF now so that they can start Perry Jones there later.

[rise]

The way things are going, it wouldn't surprise me.

I really do NOT want Wallace shipped out.

[Phil89]

Low scoring game.

[rise]

Yeah, well Charlotte's never really been known for our offense.

[|)e8*]

CHA vs. OKC

WTF is Matt Carroll starting at SF? He's a guard. Why start Matt Carroll when you can start Derrick Brown or McGuire?

In fact with Wallace out, I'd go with:

Mohammed
Thomas
Diaw
Jackson
Augustin

Diaw is really a small forward.

Also Kwame Brown is starting at center and Mohammed is coming off the bench

Ak47+ Okur for Nazr and G-Force?

[rise]

Hell Fucking No.

I'd have to think about Nazr for Okur for a bit (would probably go through with it), but Wallace for AK47 is a NO. Plus Kirilenko's contract is fucking ridonkulous.

[|)e8*]

Yeah, but he is in his last contract year.

[rise]

True, but Wallace shoudln't go oanywhere!

[Lamrock]

Wallace has been garbage this season and the LOLcats are going nowhere. Only reason to keep him around is because his poor performance may be a fluke and that he is the only original 'Cat left.

[rise]

He's been injured off and on throughout the season, he's just tried to play through it.

He's had good nights mixed in with bad nights. He hasn't been garbage, and my LOLcats are getting nowhere because we have no Felton, Tyson Chandler's gone to Dallas where he'll likely become an All-Star (quote me on that) and we got Eduardo Najera (who we don't play, thank god for that ), Matt Carroll (who should play more but doesn't), and Dampier (who we dumped and now plays for Miami). Now you wonder why we suck this season?

[Lamrock]

Charlotte has sucked because their offense has continued to be atrocious, and also because for some reason or another, they stopped playing good defense. The "magic" that got such a mediocre squad 44 wins is gone, and it seems Larry Brown has quit on the team.

I suppose it's hard to win when your leading scorer is also your worst rotation player.

[The X]

What's that I hear? Drew Gooden does not play, Bogut goes 7/9 from field & hits all of his free throws & Bucks win by 19 points in LA. It's called the Gooden Factor Addition by subtraction.

Plus chucker Brandon Jennings is injured, which is always a good thing. It meant that the more efficient Boykins gets some play. Funny that Sit's favourite midget burned the Lala's

[NovU]

Lolz at Lakers, thought they were close to being at full strength now with Bynum back in the line up. Still looking forward to Christmas match up versus the Heat.

[shadowgrin]

Lolz at Lakers, thought they were close to being at full strength now with Bynum back in the line up.

They did? Proof or ban.

[Houndy]

Mavs ripped off the LOLcats. They're plain turrible