The Downbeat - 2 November 2009 - #91 - The 0-3 (fact) Edition

by Basketball John on Nov 2, 2009 5:00 AM MST in The Downbeat Comment 7 comments

1_medium Thanks to Ross Siler for bringing some attention to the VoteDeron project. He spoke to Deron about it and I talked to him a bit on Saturday. Here's what Deron had to say,

"I like it," Williams said Saturday. "Help me out. I need to be in there." Having been passed over for the All-Star Game the last three seasons, Williams joked, "I need a miracle, I guess."

One part he left out was that I said I thought maybe we could garner some of the Yao Ming vote since he'll be out all season. We need those kind of numbers for a shot.

2_medium Crazy season so far. Outside of Boston and Orlando, nothing else has gone to plan for a lot of teams.

LA hasn't looked good so far. Phoenix is back to the run and gun and gun and gun. They look like they could score 130 with ease. Chicago gets a big win against SA and then gets blown out by Boston. Cleveland started out 0-2. I imagine we'll see things start evening out in a month or so though.

8_medium I'm pulled as to putting up a Knicks record tracker. It's no doubt going to be huge for this franchise. On the other hand, it seems like it would be kicking them when they're down. We don't really have anything against NY and no rivalry. But maybe this will be the end of the Isiah Thomas era for them and they can finally look forward to something next season.

That's not even mentioning the huge jinx it would be to put something like that up. They would probably make the 8th spot in the East because of it.

However, if we lose there on the east coast swing coming up, all bets are off.

4_medium November will come in like a lion and leave like a lamb. We have 3 of the first 4 at home, but we're at Dallas and have SA. After a four-game east-coast swing, we have a quickie at home with Toronto before heading to San Antonio to see if we can get a W there before the 2000s are up.

Then it's home for 6 over the Thanksgiving holiday.

And don't even look at December.

5_medium Some home video of Wes Matthews' first game at Denver

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1. the lack of ming means that Chinese fans will vote more along the same lines as to which players pay tribute to China — and the players that play for those teams. Kobe goes to China almost every off season, so look for a strong number of “Bynum” votes for the ASG. which is pathetic . . . as I’ve pointed out in one of my longer blog posts.

2. aside from the clippers being bad (with inj. rookie), all other teams have had a small sample size of games with which to judge upon. after november things will appear more ‘normal’, I agree.

8. no need for a knicks tracker — not until they are fighting for a Top 5 worst record at the end of the season and teams start to tank.

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Nov 2, 2009 6:11 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

1. So – maybe we need to trade Boozer for a Chinese guy? Who could we get?

by MelMan2002 on Nov 2, 2009 6:21 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

trade him to NJ for Yi . . . he's a wing scorer who can play some mins at PF as well. solid outside shot. (not hornacek, but not mark eaton either)

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Nov 2, 2009 6:35 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

1. all the chinese votes might go to yi instead

8. i put one up and as a believe in jinxes, i tell myself i’m only stating fact. besides, if the positions were reversed, you can’t tell me other teams wouldn’t be doing the same to us.

by moni on Nov 2, 2009 7:38 AM MST reply actions 0 recs