NBA 2007/Second Half/Do The Math
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Lets continue the NBA here. Anthony Johnson to the Hawks
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Fantasy is about numbers not W&L.
So, any other trades jump off today?
dumars 'O8
Juan Dixon for Fred Jones
What time is the official time deadline? 5pm eastern?
So annoyoing to have all those rumors flying and end up having damn near every GM in the league sit on their hands into the afternoon.
I think Bibby to Cleveland would have made things kind of interesting.
My homie told me they do this erry trade deadline. Hypin shit up to get the fans to hope for big changes.
third best record in the nba for 2007 behind dallas and phoenix...
euroball
i will wait to see the end of the season but i love how they are still under the radar
Jones is still extremely popular here in Portland......being a Barlow/UofO graduate.
Infact, check out the front page of www.trailblazers.com .
Really hoping to get a look at some Raptors games in the second half of the season and playoffs. Who's this "Garbajosa" cat? And Calderon? Always been a fan of Texas boys Ford and Bosh. Bargnani is really surpassing expectations. Nice young squad.
They have a bunch of young guys playing super solid
anthony parker has good size and athleticism and plays great defense (on kobe recently) and just good hustle (boards, put backs)
we have two strong PG in ford and calderon plays with confidence and speed
crish bosh has blossomed and has a very good attitude
barniani and garbajosa are two versatile big men that are good shooters
and our "veteran" morris peterson
this is the report on the raptors
their formula has finally meshed and is working (nice job by the new GM)
we used to have problems with consistence...and basically effort
we would have runs and just get into nasty slumps...
now bosh is our star (ciao vince) he is now an estbalished scorer and provides defensive presence but is grounded and not high on himself. around him he has aforementioned players european or disciplined players that are athletic and know there role...plus the raptors benefit from being so off the radar teams dont know or expect them to be good (not anymore but still) calderon,barniani or parker get high numbers and the opposing team is left shaking their heads...it can be summed up in these big men they let barniani hit 4 or 5 threes until they go after him and then he scores instead like he is "supposed to" all a while..bosh is cruising and before you know it raptors by 8 5 minutes left in the 3rd... and now they are solid so they close out
most raptors victories have been tight contests but we end up winning it and if not we get real close to big teams like the mavs...
its still a sing of a young team, seraching for an identity..but they are hungry have good fans and started the season awful so they have a chip on their shoulders and are peaking at the right time
we will see in the playoffs
Adding Juan Dixon just adds speedy creative guard play to us..with his maryland groomed sense of discipline...
hmmm young guys peaking together and disciplined ...nice job gm (also suns gm..just a great GM)
sorry for the long winded but i dont think the raptors are very well covered in the states no?!
Go raps
ps: best announcer
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/02/22/johnson.obit.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
I saw both Bosh and T.J. in H.S.......Chris was too skinny and timid.....the strides he's made since then is amazing....he's a solid star.
Ford was the best 17 year old point guard I've ever seen.
They are an exciting team and will only get better.
But I'm afraid Ford's durability will be an issue.
The "best" HS player I ever saw was Schea Cotton, who I believe declared for the draft in the mid to late-90's and fell off the map. Number 2 would've been Tim Young, who played at Harbor High before moving on to Stanford.
chuck schwerski is just hilarious (laugh at him not with him related)
I fear you may be right about TJ we could have built on him and i enjoyed seeing him in his past years...at least calderon is a pleasant surprise
Cotton got a lot of press early on.....would have loved to have seen him play.
Best High School player I've ever seen was Andre McCarter from Philly.
Once saw a guy named Stanley Bonewitz score 131 points in 2 games at the State Finals. Went on to play at Texas Tech and faded away.
by the way, i was being sarcastic when i called d. wade a pussy ... dont take that literally. those shoulder injuries are terrible. you dont realize how sensitive the joint is to every minor motion until it gets fucked up like that. showering for example is straight up murder. i'm not the biggest d. wade fan on the planet but seeing him throw it out the way he did made me wince .... i was trying to steal the ball from this hoss
in a pickup game when it happened to me. needless to say she was much stronger than i had figured
Dwade considering season ending surgery
damn i remember that dude! fuck man that really brings back memories. he was crazy athletic for a white dude. him and lance hughes. i used to go watch them play all the time, even see them at the gym a lot. i think i was like 10 or 12 then.
San Antonio???
I think the 131 came in the Semi-Finals......I know he scored like 50 pts in a Final game when he was a Junior.
i only saw those guys play in college, but bonewitz was quite the local star back then. hughes too after he won that dunk contest.
I was hoping Dirk & Co. could administer his season ending "surgery".
i try not to get too excited about guys scoring a lot of points in high school games, even if it's about as high a level of competition as they're going to see. i was more impressed with eric gordon a while back - he looked like he has better instincts.
http://www.debonairproductions.com/video/powe.mov
The OAL was pretty good in those years as well. Tech's point guard, Q. Thomas, ended up going to North Carolina and won a championship even though he only got spot minutes. He's still with the Tar Heels but I don't think he's playing much.
Ayinde Ubaka from Oakland High also ended up at Cal with Powe and is still their starting point guard.
Some other kids also made it to top college programs those years as well but I can't remember who.
I also got to see Alexis Gray-Lawson at Tech. who now plays at Cal as well. She's out with an injury this season but she was Pac-10 freshmen of the year last year.
Her Tech. teammate who also goes to Cal, Devanei Hampton is now holding down the fort as Cal has been in and out of the Top-25 rankings.
Dirk was pretty nasty last night.