I’m an NBA junkie so I listen and read way more commentary
than is good for me. There are certain
trends I’ve picked up on that have started to bother me a bit. I think it makes sense to get on a soapbox
and sell a narrative when you’re trying to get hits but I think there’s some
folks that need to tamper down expectations a bit. The following is a list of the trends I’ve
noticed that bother me the most:
1. Anthony Davis. The
dude is a really good basketball player but let’s all relax a bit with the he’s
moments away from being the greatest player on the planet patter. I’d like to see him prove it and carry the
hornets because as far as I can tell that team is not good and as talented as
he is I just don’t see him being so good that he can carry them to the
playoffs. They’re going to lose a lot of
games. They’re extremely banged up and
even healthy none of their parts make much sense together. Davis is going to have a lot of bad nights
where he feels pressure to do everything and he’s not there yet.
2. The Rockets. I’m
not saying they won’t be really good but I’ve been hearing a lot of juggernaut
chatter and I’m not buying it. Harden
will have off nights. He tends to take a
lot of awful shots and he’s often talented enough to make them but on nights
when the ref doesn’t blow the whistle and the step back threes don’t fall he
can come vaguely close to sucking.
Howard will get hurt. And let’s
relax with the Ty Lawson was the 2nd best free agent move after
Lamarcus Aldridge talk. He can be
good. But he’s not a great player and
he’s got a lot of baggage. It’s not as
easy and as much a given over coming alcoholism as sports prognosticators would
have you believe. Beyond that there’s a
lot of depth but it’s a bunch of guys that could be really good or just
okay. Not many of them have proven much
to me. On good nights players like Corey
Brewer can seem good but other times they can seem barely capable of prime time
basketball. I’m just not buying that
they’re so good. Their depth will help
them in the regular season but I’m not buying their main guns.
3. The draft.
Everyone likes to go on about their guy in the draft and go over the top
with how much they love him. The guys
pundits are too in love with so far as far as I’m concerned are Hezonja and
Winslow. I’m not going to make the
mistake of going the opposite way and saying they’re not going to be any good
eventually but let’s all relax. Hezonja
hasn’t done anything anywhere yet and right now he seems like a bit of a
chucker. He’s a bit more arrogant and
bombastic than your average European prospect and I think that characteristic
has really titillated the analysts out there.
Maybe he’ll figure things out and maybe he’ll end up being a poor man’s
J.R. Smith. Winslow is similar. Everyone’s going on about what an incredible
steal he was. Right now he looks
extremely offensively challenged to me.
Maybe he gets a ton better and turns into Jimmy Butler but he may never
develop an offensive game and until he does he not extremely useful out there
for the heat.
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