Almost two weeks without a post. Dusty and I can't complain about having readers if we don't write anything. Especially after a crazy two weeks in the Association that we have not adequately addressed. The Kidd trade... The Cavs trade... The fact that Pheonix looks lost with the Big Washed Up... Mike Bibby to the Bandit's hood ornament... Today...
We start with today. Why? Because I write this and it hurts. Catharsis. The Rockets are on a twelve game winning streak, hopefully we still get the penthouse streak. I think the number has something to do with Yao going down with an injury we didn't even see in a game. A broken foot because of a stress fracture at a young age when you rely on your feet to make a living is not a good thing. It's weird, I have felt really strange about this winning streak for the entire time... I just didn't want to get excited. I started to think maybe it would be OK to get excited about the Rockets. We were overcoming the failed signings/trades for the artist formerly known as the franchise and I'm Mike James bitch! The guy that people have (wrongly) complained about being too soft for years effectively called out his team. We made reasonable trades. Bobby Jax for a week rotation player and one that doesn't play at all for a guy that looks like the second part of a point guard tandem that doesn't make me feel like I have to let everyone know that Rafer (despite this great stretch) kills us late in games. We got the most underrated dunker in the game. Birthday cake has a great amount of talent. Maybe we can find a way to use it since Adelman has been getting the most out of young players. We started rough, but we were coming on strong. I didn't want to believe it. I was getting there. I was Wiley Coyote about to go for the Road Runner's jugular, and now I am wearing an anvil and my head is buried in a brick wall. I was actually wondering if it was bad that Dallas was closing in on Magloire. We would be better of playing small ball with Landry and Scola on the floor.
Mike Bibby went to the Hawks. A trade the Hawks had to make up for screwing up every decision concerning a point guard for the last half decade. Wait a minute was this a good decision. Mike Bibby is the worn out version of Chauncey Billups. Great contract coming out of a great post season, overrated from there on out for the most part. Both are very good players, considered to be good clutch guys, but both are not nearly what their rep would suggest. Bibby is being brought in to make up for the worst draft day decision since Darko, on par with the Kwame pick, maybe even Sam Bowie territory. Bibby isn't bad, but I would rather have the Williams or Paul. The Hawks finally made a trade, but it might have been a day late and a dollar short. I don't know that more than twelve people in Atlanta actually noticed anyway. If you land a point guard in a city of 3 million plus and no one cares, did you actually get one?
Speaking of broken down point guards... The Ponies got their Kidd, and yes I realize that riding a C.S. Lewis pun to this point has to be really annoying. My employers live to annoy the shit out of me with references of the same type, I subject you to such in order to maintain my sanity. There isn't much left. Back to Mark Cuban's little pony, the Mavs haven't looked that smart for making this trade to this point. Maybe they needed a shot in the arm to get the city involved, but the reality of the situation is that the few Mavs fans I consider basketball fans haven't lived in Dallas for a long time if ever. People in Dallas may have noticed, but they had to google when Kidd played there last and why it was a big deal that he was coming back. Shit, I still haven't analyzed the trade. The Mavs should have kept Devin Harris and got a vet that played shooting guard or center that could have inspired change without giving up rotation players. A classic Cuban move that looks great, but will cost so much that you resent hom for making it until it just doesn't work, just like you said it wouldn't. I know that was a spectacular run-on sentence. Comma splice like mutha. Fragment. Anyway, don't look for Kidd to grow a floppy haircut and make Dirk feel warm inside. You sent you meal ticket to the desert...
Speaking of the purple people, Pheonix has taken a short term hit with the Shaq trade. Yes, Shaq scoring 7 and grabbing 10 is worse than the Matrix doing the same. I don't blame Phx for ditching him, but I bring in AK instead. Shaq has the pedigree, however he has been washed up since he got to Miami. This is the midlife crisis move of buying a shit used Porsche instead of a slightly used BMW. Miami wouldn't have won the title that year if the East didn't suck, and the Mavs didn't have the constitution of a ten year old on December 26th who just watched their Christmas puppy get hit by a Prius and die slowly. Was that over the line? Phx and San Antonio and/or LA might be an interesting series because of the rivalry, but I don't see Phx having fixed any holes other than making some of the ones they had slightly smaller in the mental category. Other than the fact that Kurt Thomas is a better defender than Shaq. Where is he now? Ask Dusty, he might know. Anyone who comes out of the West wins a chance, but a puncher's chance is just that.
Now to Bron. The Cavs get Wally, the worldest biggest clock that runs slow now, and Delonte West. Wally shoots better than Donyell. Big Ben is more reliable than Drew Gooden at his specialties, and West, though questionable at times, is a better point guard than Larry "I duped everybody" Hughes. They got better. To continue the car analogy: They didn't have to get much better to make Lebron happier, but would you be happier with three new Camaros or a Ferrari? Camaros aren't terrible if you have a mullet, but a Ferrari when you already have one is a lot cooler than three Camaros. Lebron and any other guy who demands a double team would have been an impressive team. Lebron and three more guys who make you play one on one honestly instead of running a lax zone is better than what he had. Lebron and another guy who confuses other people would have been crazy. Maybe a big trade wasn't possible this season... I used elispes gratuitously in this post...
The Captain signing off for now...
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hmmmm.... i think that the kidd trade looks better after the last game than it did at first. he is still so the best passer i have ever seen.
this post season will be ridiculous with the crazy draft that is upcoming as well as the insane free agent market... who will opt out?> who even can make a WAGER at who will be good next year?
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