I totally missed the NBA draft and don’t have anything profound to say about the picks.
I can’t believe Rubio dropped to five, the Pistons should have made a move. He’s going to be an absolute stud. Here’s 20 minutes of proof (with some exceptionally white background music):
On the Stones, I have no sense of what they’re trying to do.
I’m contractually obligated to post about Michael Jackson:
Rest in peace sir—sixth grade religion class would have been a lot different without your songs.
Love the Sixers’ decision to go back to their old school logo.
Kind of like the Stones getting rid of this monstrosity.
Now if only the Sixers could go back in time and not give Elton Brand that contract.
Despite my love for Anne Hathaway, I still haven’t seen her hugely critically acclaimed performance in Rachel Getting Married. But Matt liked it:
ok, so hathaway sort of redeemed herself with this movie. definitely thought she was a better actress than her previous movies. she plays a recovering drug addict going back to see her family and go to her sister’s wedding. drama ensues. the movie is shot handi-cam style which gets annoying at hour 1.5. They should have cut some parts shorter, but it definitely adds to the feel of the movie to get the long strungout wedding toasts and whatnot. the weird thing about the movie is that the groom is into music and is from hawaii, so half of the movie is basically just people playing music. i guess that adds to the lifelike feel of the movie. however, the drama between the sisters seems a little superficial at times, like why do i care. since they don’t use dialogue as much to draw you in it’s harder to care about the sister drama, but it seems more lifelike.
i don’t know, i think it was good. but so were the huge single malt scotches i was drinking.
Saw two good and oddly parallel movies last night:
Both were very funny and should be added to your DVR/Tivo/Netflix immediately.
No time to get into all the NBA drama, will try to chime in later.
Via Pat, 95% funny:
With LeaguePass in my life, I totally burnt myself out on the NBA this season. I can’t imagine what would happen if I got hired to work at a Chinese buffet. That being said, with the draft approaching, this is a fun week to get the juices flowing.
Via Kenny, apparently the Celtics offered Rondo and Ray Allen for Tayshaun, Stuckey, and Rip:
For the Pistons, this deal makes little sense, unless they wanted to let Allen’s expiring deal gain even more salary cap space for the free-agent class of 2010. The idea of trading his three best returners for an expiring contract and one good young player wasn’t worth considering for Dumars, sources said.
Your 09-10 Pistons: Rondo, Ray Allen, Gordon, Maxiell, Amir!
Kenny on the trade:
I HATE Rondo, but that’s mostly because he is on another team. I don’t think the stones would or should make this trade regardless since they would basically be trading three starters for Rondo, and one year of an aging ray allen. Although it would give them even more cap space in 2010.
Pat’s plan to rebuild the Stones:
First, trade Tayshuan, Maxiell and one of the 2nd rounders this season for Chris Bosh.
This trade would work if Toronto was very worried about losing Bosh for nothing in FA next offseason. If they don’t have this fear then it’s highly unlikely they would make this deal, but, tay does fill a big need for toronto at SF and i think they’d be interested in max and a draft pick as well.
So, assuming this deal goes down we need a sf and probably another big…
Now we sign Gordon to a 5 year, 40 milish type deal.
We now have too many sg’s, so let’s trade Rip, Amir and another 2nd round round pick to New Orleans for David West and Morris Peterson. The Hornets would consider this deal becuase they are desperately trying to shed salary and they will entertain the thought of trading west (supposedly) but the key for them is getting rid of MoPete’s contract.
lineup
pg: stuckey/bynum
sg: gordon/AA
sf: MoPete/? FA?
pf: West/attempt to resign mcdyess?
C: Bosh/KwameNot sure that team will play good enough defense to be a big winner but they would be much better shooting team than the current pistons. I think West and Bosh could work well together down low since west is such a good jumpshooter. SF would be the big question but mopete is a wily vet and i think he can still be a solid contributor on a contending team.
I think the only major concern with these deals is if the team really struggles you may have a very hard time resigning Bosh the following offseason and that could be very bad news.
Another option, make one of the two trades, maybe subbing in Tay for Rip in the NO deal and then forget ben gordon and try to sign turkeyleg to a reasonable deal to replace tay. I really think NO would consider making one of these deals because they tried to simply give away tyson chandler. They need to shed salary badly and we are a team who can take some on.
York has a plan for Rondo that involves the Hornets:
i get that Rondo is worth more now than ever and is probably going to want more than he’s worth when he’s a free agent, but he’s still a top eight PG in the NBA right now: why trade him and not get a better PG? I would trade him and Ray for Chris Paul and Posey.
So… what’s cracking?
Just drinking some water, racquetball skills not progressing.
