Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The summer leagues

Don't matter and tell us very little. Enjoy them if you wish, but it's rookies and 2nd-year players against scrubs and never-will-bes. Competition that's about as weak as what they faced in college. The games have no limits on fouls and are played more to acclimate rookies to a system than anything.
In 2006, Randy Foye was the summer league star. In 2007 it was Marco Bellinelli. In 2008, not only was Jerryd Bayless unstoppable, Derrick Rose was disappointing. It takes rookies awhile to adjust to the league anyways. They can't be expect to be the player they'll eventually become in 6 games with a team that will be radically different when the season starts.
Enjoy the games as a fan, but don't read too much into them.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Suns

They sure like to draft brothers of great players.

Danny Green to Cavs

This could be a steal. Green is the same type of player as Terrence Williams. That "new prototype" I mentioned. The guy who comes in with the combination of 3-point shooting and great defense. This type fits in perfectly with a superstar, because his offense is effective, but not the least bit intrusive on that superstar. Vitale predicted a San Antonio-Cleveland finals in 2010 during the telecast. I see little reason to doubt that.

Blair to the Spurs

The Spurs are notorious for trading their picks, so don't put this down as a sure thing yet. If they keep Blair, they've now upgraded from Bowen to Jefferson and added a great rebounder to their bench. With Ginobili coming back at full health, the Spurs have retooled themselves into a championship favorite. Seriously, how does this happen? Why are players who will never amount to anything like Pendergraph and Cunningham get drafted so a Blair can slide to the Spurs? I guess ths is another reminder of why the Spurs are 4-time champs.

Blair

I'm not going to dwell on this too much, because I probably already have. But drafting Jeff Pendergraph ahead of Dejuan Blair is just silly.

I need a walk

The Blonde wants to take a walk down to the local market for some vitamin water. My Bulls got James Johnson and Taj Gibson. There must be something wrong with Blair's knees. My hope as a fan is these players are part of an eventual deal for Chris Bosh.

Best remaining:

Blair
Calathes
Marcus Thornton
Aaron Jackson
Wayne Ellington

Presti

If it's true that he gets out of this draft with Harden, Mullens and the Suns' #1 next year he's clearly the genius he was rumored to be. Too bad it won't happen in Seattle, but this team is going to be great.