best sarcasm of the day imo; expert use of p.s.

dont know why you hold the celts up as the landmark in 3 years. i love this boston team, but the future isn't terribly magnificent. next year the team is locked up (player option for posey which i hope he exercises) and we're losing eddie house/pj/sam, replacing them with vet minimums and our 2nd rounder, possibly losing TA, but our important core is together - KG (32 next year) pierce (31) allen (33). Posey (32) Rondo (23) powe (25) perkins (24). Cool, so next year it's likely ray doesn't continue slipping too much, KG and PP may fall slightly, but rondo/perk improvement will likely balance that out. So, next year our team should be as good, probably not better, but not worse. moving on...
the year after though for sure we lose posey (ok whatever) but this is where we likely wont have our young role players (powe, baby = gone) and hopefully we exercise our option on rondo. but age truly is a fear here: 34, 33, and 32. at this point perk will no longer be improving, rondo likely wont improve too much more, and we have no young talent.
im not sure my point, only, as a celtics fan, this year is a great chance and i love this team, and next year i think we should be as good, but the year after (2009/10) our team is good but certainly not close to this year's team.

lol... way to rig it NBA

I'll be very, very disappointed if the Bulls don't take Derrick Rose

1) There really isn't a great selection of available big men
2) Point guards are becoming one of the key catalysts to NBA franchises short of having Kobe, Lebron talent... examples would be Billips, D Will, CP3, and so on
3) Heinrich isn't very good as a starter
4) Deng already plays well at the role Beasley would take
5) I HAVE A HUGE MANCRUSH ON DERRICK ROSE

If the Bulls pick Rose, I might have to start watching their games on a regular basis again (not because they are better than whatever else is on).

PLEASE TAKE ROSE
PLEASE TAKE ROSE
PLEASE TAKE ROSE

lol at NBA rigging... this ranks up there with the Knicks for Ewing and Magic for O'neal

huh?
Derrick Rose is a true pg all the way
In both his senior year of high school and AAU, he was the primary ball handler up the court and in offensive sets. He always looked to pass the ball a ton. I watched him at both levels; he's a point guard. The most surprising thing about this year was how smooth his outside shot looked in big games.

OJ Mayo is too high here IMO

Also, teams need to take a real look at the wrist of Gordon

Ball Handlers != possibly great point guard.

hawks got 3rd in pau draft and traded it to grizz for reef

i think it moved. this is hot.

How many wins are you assigning the impact of whoever they take?

I know they had a terrible year, but they're not really a 33-win team as currently constructed, are they? Seems like they have too much talent for that; they were averaging like 46 wins in the three seasons prior to this one. They aren't the 95-97 Spurs (who went from 59 wins to 20 wins when Robinson got hurt, then won the lottery and got Duncan) but I can't help but see some of the similarities.

Anyone know anything about the Gallinari kid from Italy? Would be interesting to see if the Knicks took him this year and the NBA set it up so they can get Rubio in the '09 Draft.

pls to have bill walker falling to pistons

so how high was brandon rush going before his knee/acl injury?

ugh. dude has blown out both his acls.

thats high school but rose wasn't a ture pg in college was he. at least he wasn't in the game angist the Longhorns.

Who do you think was playing PG? It was Rose.

it may have said pg in the lineup but he wasn't a true pg in the game.

Plz to be throwing out more thinly-veiled Texas homerism and poor basketball observations stated as fact.

god I'd love to see brand back in a bulls uniform


FYP, even though they traded the first pick which would've been Weber. I think they only had one ball in the lottery that year and won

i thought it was just one? either way he seemed to have recovered fine this year and will only progress imo

Epic

I'm a bit surprised westbook is projected so high.

Guys i'm all for making fun of idiots but dangeraw is autistic, go easy on him.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...d.php?t=177947

It's somewhere in that huge thread.

Just took the words right out of my mouth.

EPi,

Cmonnnn linking to a 26 page thread? LOL