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I had a dream last night where Aaron Brooks hit a game winning three against the Wizards which because of the win sent Tracy McGrady to the Wiz. I want to elaborate on this. Let's say we have a dream league with no salary cap and each team has to offer up one player per year and whoever wins that game gets to choose to keep that player or send him to the other team or ship their player off. Like say Kobe Bryant was offered up in that Grizzlies game the other night. The Griz won and could have just stole one of the best players ever. You could argue it'd make good teams better and bad teams worse. But I believe teams would play hard to keep their elite players and we could throw in some rules. Like every team gets one exemption every five years where they can veto the opposing team taking a player or giving a player and we wouldn't include rookies or sophomores because that could get brutal and you wouldn't be able to offer up the same shitty player/contract every year. I don't know it was a dream scenario that I thought sounded pretty neat. Maybe it's an awful idea but it would make for a few regular season games to mean more.

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Doesn't the Cavs win streak without Mo Williams prove how little value he brings to the team?

I witnessed Hasheem Thabeet get pushed off of his screen by Jamario Moon. This does not bode well for his future, but his decent looking jumper and free throw shooting does.

I'm convinced Trevor Ariza is the worst player in the league right now after watching him play against the Suns. He was lauded as a 3 baller and a defender while on the Lakers... well when you take away all 7-footers he was playing with and Kobe Bryant both his offense and defense take a huge hit. He uses his length alright on the perimeter and in the post but is just a gambler and without bug men to save him when he messes up he looks poor. And he became a shot maker after hitting something like 47% of his threes in the playoffs. Well I'm assuming he was so open because of Kobe and the feared big men and had the confidence because he was a nobody and also going to guess he didn't shoot that many of them (I was wrong he attempted about 3.5 a game). Well now that he's "the man" on the Rockets he's taking those threes and missing, a lot. According to basketball-reference.com he is shooting 30% from three and only 37% from the field. These are horrible percentages for a shooting guard which is what he mostly plays, and I'll even give him the fact that he should be judged as a small forward where his percentages are still terrible! In a league where Coby Karl can get 15 points 7 assists and 7 rebounds for the Warriors, Ariza kills his team and is the worst player in the NBA currently. I mean Chase Bundinger pushes him for minutes. Which sucks for the Rockets because they got some good players like Aaron Brooks.


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Some thoughts on Channing Frye

Jason: I imagine guarding Channing Frye shooting threes is like me (5'9) guarding that 6'4 kid in that pickup game last week.

Ben: Yeah probably.

Jason: I feel immensely bad for everyone that he has splashed on now.

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Maybe there will be no correlation, but with Chandler Parsons stepping up and hitting game winners all of a sudden, maybe it's alright to compare him to having a future NBA career kinda like Mike Miller's. Just throwin' it out there, 'cause I like my Florida boys, winners or not.

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And here, just go and read about a baby terrorizing Hornets fans.

posted by: Jason