That is ABSURD!

- title quote by rick james, courtesy of the chapelle show.


Hey y'all, back on this blog, a little belated i suppose, i was home last week w/o internet access, and we were getting a little paperwork done on my car, ( or as my boston side likes to call it, my cahhhhhhh), and once again it's been a busy week. It's really interesting, i feel like i've been a lot busier and more diligent, less falling asleep and not making it to things i want to get to, and in that sense i've been satisfied so far this semester, but i KNOW my grades aren't gonna be as good as last semester's. That might be because of the classes themselves, but i dunno. If I do go to law school, this is the last semester undergrad grades should matter at all, so i wanna at least end on a good note.

I'm so excited about our ASB trip this winter. Last year, i didn't know what would go down on the trip, how group dynamics were gonna be, and i made our group start late like half an hour, but I STILL had a great time. Actually, Jan. 10th, 2007 was classified as one of my "top ten" days ever, one of the more memorable days of my entire life. There's no telling what's gonna happen this year on our trip, and I have really bonded with my group already. It's gonna be sweet. O, and yea, i like volunteering as well as working w/ children, so the work part of the trip will be covered.


On to fantasy. Watchin the bulls-pistons game on TNT. NBA on TNT! Rip Hamilton, sick floater over Tyrus Thomas, pulls pistons within 1 w/ a minute and change to go. Grrrr. If they go 0-5, it's gonna be a world of hurt. Circus trip coming too.

Tyrus Thomas is silently the only fantasy force on teh bulls right now, he's really started the season off well and looks motivated to do somethin this year. He won't be that offensive big man that the Bulls have been looking for, but he's another high energy, high skill level bulls player. And young.

The season is, also, young, and after 5 games it's really hard to tell who's gonna be good, who's be gonna be bad.........however, my motto for fantasy NBA is that it's a lot less volatile than fantasy football.......in fantasy football, adrian peterson can become the #1 fantasy player as a rookie, and shaun alexander can turn from a first round back to a bucket of crud. NBA is not like that, usually players will perform up to their averages, and the season is long enough ( 82 games) that players can have weeks that our sick to balance out bad starts. So guys like Ben Wallace, vince carter, Brad miller, jermaine o'neal, you need to be patient on. Of course, injuries threaten to put any of these guys on the shelf, but that's the NBA. Injuries are truly, truly, part of the game. You have to draft guys and consider value expecting a certain type of fragility. So injuries aside, you need to consider the "correction" factor...........a.ka. the averaging force.



Observations from early season

David West might be taking over some rebounds from tyson. I like chandler still, but west is a really quite but solid young player.

Staying with the hornets, Peja hit 10 threes in a game this week. Still don't like him. He promptly shot 2-13 the next night. I think he's one step above damon jones, don't expect too much from him except 3's.

Kevin martin is who we thought he was. He'll be the offensive centerpiece of that time, even when artest comes back. Brad miller is still looking shaky. Still soft on defense, very little blocks.


Wizards and gilbert arenas not looking good. Hibachi averaging 4 assts per game, 5 TO's. Not a good average. Definite correction candidate, barrin injury i doubt gilbert is under 25PPG, 6 ASPG, and 2 STL's. Be patient people. This man's got a contract he's playing for.



Josh Smith averaging 3.5 Stl's, 4 Blk's in early going. So sick. I don't have him in any of my leagues because the secret actually got out this year. Darn. Those defensive #'s in fantasy are huge, do not underrate them. Andrei Kirilenko and Josh Smith are posterboys for "sexy players" who put up defensive stats like none other.

G.S. vs. Dallas tonight. My prediction: Dallas is pissed this season, have been waiting all season for this game, will win.


Fantasize on, Robert Yan