I’ve been riding the Brand to Philly wagon for a while now. Smart move on his part. Better team, better pay, better chance to success.

couldn’t have gone much better for us.

I think we should be better than both those teams now. Now we just need to jump ahead of one of the 8 that made it last year. Easier said than done, but certainly possible.

I like Brand in Philly- I could see them going at least to round 2, maybe the East Finals.

with Kaman? It seems like they have a nice up and down team in LAC now and I dont see how the old school play of Kaman fits into that. Maybe I am wrong as I have not seen Kaman play a whole lot, but vikings are usually slow by nature…and brutal…to look at (how can you talk about Kaman with out slipping in a low blow about his looks. Classy as usual.)

they have had some tough end of season injuries. Next year might be really good for them. Remember how they put the beatdown on beantown (I thought that one up all by myself) last year? I think the can definitely put it together to get to the 2nd round at least in the east (that one was unintentional).

As far as your West playoffs go I would hav to agree but I would have the Suns and Dallas trade places.

is the most hilarious post I’ve seen in a long time. Seldom do two letters describe a situation so adequately.

You just made me laugh my butt off.

—Dave

You signed Maggette now for a long term deal, and with the cap at $58mil, all you can offer BDiddy is $25mil and 3 years, no?

He can surely get more from Atlanta if Josh Smith leaves.

B. Davis – good
J. SMith – good
E. Gordon – rookie
C. Kaman – always injured
A. Thornton – sophomore
C. Mobley – old

LA Clippers = Not making playoffs

or if you missed my point.

I was saying you can’t do an analysis where you write off all a team’s players by using a pessimistic one word description for them.

The Clips post could just as easily have been:

B. Davis- electric; a top 5 PG.
J. Smith- the best athlete in the NBA with solid and improving skills
E. Gordon- college scoring machine
C. Kaman- double double monster
A. Thornton- solid rookie looking for a breakout year
Mobley- proven scorer

that from what I’ve heard Brand is a first tier player. Word around the street is he’s legit.

But Kaman, Thornton, Eric Gordon, Baron, that’s a good foursome. Not gonna make the playoffs probably, but it ain’t that much worse than the Warriors—and really, Baron Davis made those Warriors go. He was why they were good (Stephen Jackson too, and they started winning when he came back and yadayada, but Baron’s PG play, however inconsistent and moody and annoying it is, made that team go).

I don’t see why Baron can’t make the Clippers better than they were all by himself, though the Brand blow does make them not as formidable as before…

Plus, Baron gets more money, gets to move back home (he went to high school not far from me in Santa Monica, and he’s known for being real LA-ish), and I think kinda just makes a lateral move team wise.

Without Baron, the Warriors are probably going to be one of the worst teams unless Monta becomes more than just a scorer and one of their young bigs develop astronomically as well. The Clippers will be kinda decent, I think, as long as Baron and Kaman stay healthy (which isn’t a certainty for sure). On paper, to me, they definitely got talent, and they’ve always missed a stellar PG like Baron, and he’ll probably shine there.

To do Nelly Ball, you gotta have a playmaker who can run up the court and find people. Monta Ellis is ONLY a scorer as of now, and that makes Stephen Jackson become the Scottie Pippen-type point guard in the halfcourt. It’s gonna take a lot of improvising and craziness to put out some lineups that make sense for Golden State, while the Clippers have a more traditional (yet still athletic and talented) starting lineup.

The Warriors bench is probably better, and the Clippers have no bench, but if healthy those starters are better than what the Warriors had. To me, anyways.

I much prefer rooting for the Warriors, so I don’t think I’m biased here. I feel awful for both franchises, because each were bad for so long and then each had that one season where they FINALLY make the playoffs, enter the 2nd round even, but then it’s back to ‘normal’ again. That sucks.

Mortimer