Jan 24 2008
Fantasy Basketball: Mid-Year Review and Predictions
By THEBOSTONBACHELOR.COM / January 24, 2008
Our picks, predictions, and observations thus far for this year’s fantasy hoops season:
Get’em While You Still Can
Ryan Gomes
Travis Outlaw
Trade’em While You Still Can
Tracy McGrady
John Salmons
I Can’t Believe I Drafted This Fucking Guy
Ben Wallace
Kirk Hinrich
Gilbert Arenas
All-Injury Team
Shaquille O’Neal
Tracy McGrady
Gilbert Arenas
T.J. Ford
Grant Hill (Tenured)
Monuments of Inconsistency
Rashad McCants
Linas Kleiza
Rajon Rondo
Tayshaun Prince
Derek Fisher
Devin Harris
Yi Jianlian
Jason Kapono
Jamario Moon
Joe Smith
Daniel Gibson
Getting Better by the Minute
Nick Collison
Monta Ellis
Jose Calderon
Ryan Gomes
Travis Outlaw
Mike Conley Jr.
Andrew Bogut
Caron Butler
Chris Bosh
Rudy Gay
Big Al
Chris Paul
Deron Williams
Tyson Chandler
Dwight Howard
Andrew Bynum
Fast Start, Slow Finish
Tracy McGrady
Manu Ginobili
Damien Wilkins
Slow Start, Fast Finish
Amare Stoudamire
Pau Gasol
Dwayne Wade
Tim Duncan
Ben Gordon
Bargain Bin Free Agents That Make Your Team Suck Slightly Less
Nate Robinson
Marko Jaric
Wally Sczerbiak
Can’t Go Wrong
Lebron James
Chris Paul
Dwight Howard
Joe Johnson
Josh Howard
Josh Smith
Carlos Boozer
Antawn Jamison
Surprise! I’m Actually a Good Player
Chris Kaman
Hedo Turkoglu
My Stats Don’t Dictate How Much I Really Suck
Kendrick Perkins
Mark Blount
Who?
Thabo Sefolosha
-The Boston Bachelor
Kid,
Something strange happened to the Chicago Bulls this season. Have you ever witnessed a drop off in talent for a team in one year while the main core of players remained intact? What the hell happened to them? Here are six theories:
1. The team went to Wrigleyville before the season started and ordered a round of enchiladas.
2. Isiah Thomas is secretly managing the Bulls.
3. Ben Wallace decided that this is the year he would stop taking anabolic steroids.
4. The Bulls fired their personal fitness trainers and replaced them with the Matadors (http://www.nba.com/bulls/dance/matadors.html)
5. Thabo Sefolosha…. Who???
6. The team got jealous of their coach Scott Skiles - An NBA JAM legend who holds the record for the most assist dished out in one game (30).
The NBA is Faaaaaantastic!
Kid,
I’m glad you brought up Scott Skiles legendary appearance in the original NBA live. As far as I know, thats the only record that exists of him actually being a professional basketball player. Think about it, have you ever seen Scott Skiles play? Me neither.
I think if you go back and look at the picture of him in NBA Live you’d be shocked at the physical similarities between him and Phil Collins in 1986. Based on his breakout 1991 season it seemed he was destined for the Hall of Fame. But something happened on the way to Springfield.
I do remember one Celtics-Magic game in ‘90 or ‘91 where I had the distinct honor of watching Scott Skiles play. It was one of Larry Legend’s best games during the final leg of his career. The Celtics were down by 12 with a little over 6 minutes and facing a hostile Orlando crowd. Bird promptly led the Celtics back to victory, culminating in an in-yo-face turnaround jumper with 29.8 seconds left to go that put the Celtics up by one for good.
For some reason, I always confused Scott Skiles with Craig Ehlo back in the day. But I do see the Phil Collins resemblance now.
And here’s some random trivia for you: did you know that Scott Skiles was the inspiration behind Woody’s character in White Men Can’t Jump? In that case, who was Wesley Snipes’ character based on–Dennis Scott?
I mean,
How am I supposed to read the innappropriate Griff comments?
And you’re scoring on approaches is all wrong.
I said it.