YanksHater213

I saw that earlier and chuckled a bit, thought it was funny. Not sure how much money is in being associated with the church, but you gotta respect a guy who goes after his passion before the money.

sick burn?

I'm in your boat.. I thought girls were attracted to guys with talent?

It's easy to look at the numbers and make assumptions. He's only missed 2 games this year, and putting 15 points a game up while shooting an efficient 56% as a THIRD OPTION is very good. He's a guy you can build around because he commands a double team in the post when he touches the ball, and he's got a great repertoire of post moves for a kid who is only 22. He's only getting healthier and only getting better. You don't need to be LeBron James or Kobe Bryant to have an offense be built around you. Like I've said before, Bosh is a guy who has pretty much hit his ceiling in terms of development - he is what he is. Bynum is a very good player right now who has the potential to become a 25/12 guy in the not so distant future.

Bosh's offensive talent is awesome, but offense isn't everything. Look at Garnett in '07, he took a huge hit in his numbers across the board, but he upped his defense level a notch (which I thought was impossible) and won us a championship. Bosh is a very good and unique offensive player due to his inside/outside threat, but again his defense has been awful. Rebounds really don't mean much in terms of defense. He's an average man defender at best, which really is the most important part of defense. His rebound numbers are high, but you have to take into account that he's by far been the biggest and most athletic player on a team that has never had a standout rebounder since Bosh was drafted. He's pretty much pulling in boards by default right now. I'm not trying to take away from his rebounding skills, but put him on a team with bigs who can rebound and bang down low and I don't think he breaks 10 boards a game.

I agree with you that Bosh is far from a superstar, but I'm not sure what you're talking about with not shooting past 15 feet. His true strengths as an offensive player come from his ability to face up and hit a jump shot out to 18-20 feet (and he's more recently been able to extend that out to around the 3 point line) and use his athleticism to go through and past defenders while driving to the hoop. Also your Bargnani/Bynum to Perkins/Garnett comparison is pretty awful. Bynum and Perkins are both pretty similar players, but Perkins excels defensively and is simply efficient offensively while Bynum excels offensively and is a guy you can built your offense around while providing slightly above average defense. Then Garnett and Bargnani are polar opposites. Garnett's a defensive minded guy while Bargnani doesn't play a lick of defense, and really doesn't have a solid position defensively. He's not strong enough to guard 5s, and he's not quick enough to guard 3s or 4s.

THey called Lucic for a 4 minute high stick when it was a Blue Jackets player's stick who hit his own guy. They get a power play, and win the game. Horrible call but s*** happens I guess.

Did you see the game?

I think Robinson is a rich mans Eddie House. He's more versatile offensively and can create his own shots as opposed to Eddie who really only catches and shoots. I'm not really too keen on getting him either, but he's a very enigmatic player who plays with a lot of energy and can carry the scoring load every once in a while. It's worth a look for the right price. And couldn't agree more on Hinrich, I've been wanting to see him here for a long time. I think I've been trying to think up deals to get him at the trade deadline since 07-08.

No, but he's one of the few guys left in the NBA who has a large body and can play in the post and score on people at a good clip when he sees the ball. If LA was in a situation where their front court was Artest/Odom, Gasol, and Bosh, Perkins would eat that for breakfast lunch and dinner.

You can't look at 40-50 starts and just expect that's going to be his average throughout his career. He came into the league skinny and throughout his career he's been bulking up and that takes some time to get used to. Bynum is really LA's only big body capable of defending guys in the paint (Duncan, Shaq, Nene, Perkins, Stoudemire, etc etc). LA already has Bryant, Gasol, and Odom who need to have the ball in their hands to get theirs, and adding another to that isn't going to make them better, and they'll lose a lot of efficiency offensively because Bynum doesn't command touches, gets double teamed, and is one of the few pure low post players left in the NBA. Bynum is only going to get better and better while Bosh has hit his peak. Right now Bosh is a 2nd option on a good team, 1st option on a bad team, while Bynum could contribute as a secondary or tertiary scorer on most teams right now, and is going to be one of the best post players in the league. Sorry, honey, but role playing is part of the game. The Lakers do not need any more guys who need to dominate the ball to get theirs. They need guys like a Bynum, a Perkins, a Kirk Hinrich, etc etc, who will come in, not demand the ball, play top notch defense, and be efficient with their touches. And yes, he's 22, he's a kid.

I can tell you really do not watch too much basketball. Bynum is a center, Bosh is not. Bosh plays little defense and plays more of an inside out game, whereas Bynum can bang around the hoop on both ends. For a guy on the team he is with the guys that command touches around him, Bynum is putting up nice numbers for a kid. Chris Bosh has never done anything important in this league. I've never seen him will the Raptors to a win. He's a guy who gets his numbers, and shrinks when the game is on the line.

Bynum has a much bigger potential long term impact. I'd think long and hard about that one if I was the Lakers. If I was the Raptors, I'd pull the trigger on that in a heartbeat.

Chris Bosh is not an impact player. At least whenever I see him play he's never really dominated a game, his offensive game is solid, but he doesn't play all that much defense and really shrinks when it counts. He'll get his numbers though. I can't see the Lakers getting him for any reason at all though. They have plenty of different contracts they could mix and match in a swap (Bosh gets 16 millionish, IIRC), though none of those guys are all that talented and aren't real intriguing pieces for a team on the way down, but I can't see a situation where they wouldn't have to part with a Gasol or Bynum to get him, unless they were to commit some more highway robbery like how they got Gasol.

This team needs a spark of life to say the least. Maybe a potential deal for Nate Robinson would give us the spark? You gotta think they'd like Tony Allen and/or Scal at the very least because they're expiring, plus picks/talent with them in return. I don't really see a way we can come up with a viable package that they'd accept and is fair for them. Regardless, they need to stop playing like a bunch of f***s (for lack of a better term) in the 3rd and 4th quarters. Getting KG's leadership and intensity back should really help that I feel though. As long as we're healthy in April.

Did the ref really say "hyah, BOOM" when he threw him out?

I still like the Thabeet pick. I think it was universally accepted that he wasn't going to come in and put up Hakeem Olajuwon numbers off the bat. If he's still doing nothing in 2-3 years I'd call it a failure of a pick. Center was their weakest position, and it really didn't make sense to me to pick Evans, Harden, etc etc because they have Gay and Mayo there who are both 35-40 minute guys right now.

Yeah Memphis is underrated. They can beat anyone on any given night if their opponent decides to not play defense. They can score the ball. Teams don't score 125 by luck or because they're playing on TNT.

Admittedly I've been following college basketball much less this year in hopes of getting a better bracket this year, but I can tell you that John Wall is a monster.

Yeah... we slacked off defensively. With a team who lacks scoring and having our defense and goaltending being our identity, you really cannot blow that lead.

I think it's inexcusable to blow a 2 goal lead. Also the first goal Tim allowed was unbelievably soft. Happy with the point, but there should be no excuses, it should have been two.

Last night during the shootout, Jack Edwards referred to Dany Heatley as "a cold blooded killer" Pure awesomeness.

Everyone thinks Brady has a ton more top years in him, but I disagree. I think we realistically have 3-4 more, 5 at the most optimistic. If we don't start thinking about finding someone to replace him now it's going to be rough. Look at what Cassel was able to do after 3 years of learning the ropes from Brady. We need to find someone now, lot later. I'm not sure if you misconstrued my statement as saying we need to ditch Brady and find someone else, which wasn't what I was trying to get across at all.

Realistically, a team looking like this isn't going anywhere. Gotta blow it up, we need a franchise running back, a cornerstone defensive leader (a Bruschi, McGinest, Harrison type guy), a realistic successor to Brady (who's end is coming quicker than we all think), solid cover corners, an offensive lineman to build around (Vollmer showed glimpses), etc.