Friday, November 6, 2009

friday night fantasy





A lot of people like al harrington, and he's an intriguing young player, but it's intriguing just how bad he is sometimes: just watched him miss BADLY for the knicks in a 20-point Cleveland blowout.

Ok, Big Ben Wallace is not back to prominence. I dunno if he was swallowed by Dwight Howard's shadow, playing inside Dwight's sleeves, or just had your normal sleepwalk-in-the-park game, but 2 points and 1 reb is all the stats he had onight, not what you needed from a guy who you expect stls and blks from.

You know how sometimes at the grocery store the guy in front of you leaves cuz he forgot something, and you slide right into his spotand save yourself big-time minutes? Well, Brandon Haywood is taking full advantage of Antawn Jamison's absence from the Wizards' grocery lineup and had the game of the night. 19 rebounds and 4 blks? Yum. Haywood's muscled out Andray Blatche from that money big-man spot, it's time to cut Blatche and his 1 pt tonight loose.

Absolutely floored that Phoenix will hand the Celts their first loss tonight; lotsa good fantasy perfmances ( and probably real-life performances too) from the Suns' revamped lineup, and as much as i hate to admit it, i think the suns are back to being a regular-season machine and all suns are worthy of grabbing, especially Channing Frye and Grant Hill cuz they might be available. Amare? Might be back to the promised land this year.

Something's wrong w/ Dwayne Wade, or more accurately, with his surrounding cast. Still getting overall point numbers, but the defensive numbers and noticeably assists are missing. He looks healthy, but maybe the Heat's offensive system is just not conducive to his godly stats this year. Stay tuned.

Lamarcus Aldridge takes too many fadeaway, turnaround jumpers.

DeJuan Blair is just what the doctor ordered for the old, ailing Spurs.

If the Clippers can't beat the banged-up, can't-defend-my-grandpa Warriors, they're NOT getting into the playoffs.

Eric Gordon: the born scorer, indeed.

Jose Calderon: That's more like it for the Spanish flea. 16 points, 8 assists, and more impressively, 0 turnovers. Against Chris Paul.

Ha, but what did Chris Paul do? Only 21 points and 18 assists. Nothing fancy.

Chris Kaman: Man must love to go on vacations in the offseason. The human traveling machine.

It's so blatantly obvious that the refs compromise between calling a foul and no-foul by awarding the offensive player the ball if it goes out-of-bounds, even though it's blatantly obvious it's off the offense. Compromise is NOT good for a bright-line game like the NBA. This stuff makes me wonder if Tim Donaghy was right about all that stuff.

If batted-bats was a stat category, Manu Ginobili would be the all-time leader. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TSucjvxBNo
If you haven't checked this outyet, you should. It's like watching a train wreck: can't take my eyes off of it. Too bad the girl didn't do this before Halloween, cuz there may have been a lot of Liz Lamberts this year. Woo.

Fantasize on,

Robert Yan

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