This type of game shouldn’t be expected from Bosh every night. Out of the Big 3, he’s obviously going to suffer the most. Wade and Lebron are the alpha dogs of this team. They will handle the ball the most and dominate as expected. Bosh will probably only be utilized when the match-ups are there to exploit. Basically, teams with thin/undersized front lines.
Still, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t kicking myself for trading him a day before lastnight’s explosion. I could’ve used those 35 points…and 6 boards.
I expected Bosh to be a rebounding/defensive beast like he was in the Olympics when he beat out Dwight as the go to big man and didn’t need to work on offense.
But then I realized that there were no other capable big men to defend on any of the non-American teams and everything makes sense to me know.
It’s the Dandy bump. Bosh just needed to get around a good group of other misfit toys to get that anger inside him.
Funniest thing is the little story about the first game in boston when they were getting the shit kicked out of them and Bosh was like “THATS IT, I GOT THIS” and promptly bricked a jumper or something. He is jokes.
Best Dandy related quote has to be “I’m not a baby, I’m a grown man” by a landslide though.
Also I have figured out what we will do for the draft and keepers next year. Since some of you don’t comment in the little threads, I will just post it here…
We will keep it the same. We will all have one keeper and do a snake draft next year. The order will again be determined by the finish, bottom 8 order will be decided by a weighted lottery.
We will be allowed to make one, AND ONLY ONE, transaction involving next years draft picks before the fun league trading deadline. You will be able to offer multiple picks though. So you can either trade someone on your team for pick/s in next years draft, or you can trade some picks for a player. But you can only do ONE. Not both. There will be a thread for these transactions just like last year.
We will have the draft pick for new keeper trading as we did last year. But again, it will be only ONE transaction per team. You can trade for a keeper, or trade a new keeper to someone else, then you are done. That’s it. You will be allowed regular draft pick for pick trading though. Do that to your hearts content. This is to stop teams from ruining their chances by trading for like 3 keepers, like Buckley lol. Or stopping people from hoarding keepable players and making deal after deal to get more picks, like that penis kim.
I figured an auction would be fun, but we’d miss out on offseason keeper movement and you wouldn’t be able to move up or down in the draft like some of us like to do. I am still open to us having an auction draft, because I think it might be fun? But I know for now we are at least having keepers again. We may have to do a beta test auction draft with like ten fun leaguers to determine if its worth cutting out all the pick related trading fun.
EDIT - We just did an auction and it was fantastic. We are most certainly doing one next year. To balance it you will most likely have to pay full price for your guy, no more no less. Think about this with your keepers. This will end the draft pick dealing that allow teams to be make certain moves. Spidey now has wall who will be only like 22 some dollars next year against his initial 200 dollar budget. So remember, KEEPERS, and if you keep someone you will have to pay for them to retain balance. It wouldn’t be balanced if I had Durant and a full 200 dollars. You can also just pull a clint and have no keeper and gamble. It worked for Clint this year.
I also want to do another mock auction with a lot of people. Hopefully we can get like 8 or so in the EFnet room tonight for a nice mock auction test.
BUT DID IT? I think I went a little trade crazy - I ended up turning Kidd and Duncan into Wade and a bunch of dudes. But at least I had that brief stop John Wall Town on the way there. That was definitely fun.
When are you guys drafting? I’ll pop in if I get a chance.
Although I am so busy these days, what with completing my fourth Mass Effect 2 playthrough and everything.
Auction draft sounds super fun, we should totally do that. And I liked Lothar’s idea of having a keeper and just paying the ESPN ranked value for them.
Tonight around the beginning of the second NBA game on TNT. Gotta watch dem NBC comedies.
You actually assembled a good team bro. I had a semi good draft then semi ruined it by making a ton of trades without even seeing how the players played. Dandies are still competitive, but we could have been a contender from the gate. Now I will have to worm my way back. Stupid trade fever.
And Road House is just bomb, we just destroy on each other, we are totally winning the baldwin cup this year. It will be FREE.
QE - No idea why Jae hates auction so bad. He says it’s “Work”, how is it work? I have to do all the work? You just sit there and click on the red button. I do all the math, write all the stupid stats down. FUCK YOU GUYS.
all-star voting is one of the biggest shams ever. i wish they would just NOT do it and let the coaches and players pick the entire roster.
its also a big problem that they choose the names before the season even starts. bynum/lopez/memo/kaman…
but lets be honest. allstar balloting is just a popularity contest, and unless yao ends up (most likely) broken by the all-star game, millsap never had a chance to make the starting 5. bynum, nene, cousins, and okafor all have better shots than him too, just based on name potential. millsap will probably end up on the team by coach votes, but people making a big deal out of it just need to accept that this voting shit is a dumb, patronizing way to make fans feel as if they are “involved” in the nba.
Clippers has a deal right now. 60% off their tickets, plus if you buy a pair of tickets you’ll get a free Griffin jersey. I’m gonna watch their game against the Hornets on Monday.
That is a hot deal, not only is Clippers basketball fun to watch (even though they’re like 1-11…lol) but they’re giving a free Griffin throwback jersey also? If only they include a free round trip to LA and back I’ll be onto that shit in a nanosecond.