For anyone interested (and since there's no Celtics game tonight), the Flash are playing the Stampede tonight at 9PM EST. Idaho is coming off a 2-game winning streak with a 5-1 record while Utah is sitting at 2-4 with a 2-game losing streak, with the last loss coming against Dakota by 3 points.

JR's season averages: 19.8/7.5/2.5 with 1.7 SPG and 2.0 BPG to go along with 2.5 TOs and a healthy 2.0 PF. JR has basically been dominating the league, but he along with Bill could try to involve the team more and get their teammates more open looks. Bill Walker's season averages: 22.2/4.7/1.2 with 1.3 SPG 1.0 BPG 3.67 TOs and a 4 PF average. As Bill's strengths seem to lie in his scoring, he will hopefully will be able to work more on his D and ball-handling in addition to his court vision.

Our friend Lance Allred will also be playing for the Stampede, check it out!

See the live webcast. If it doesn't work in your browser, copy the link into Windows Media Player.

Live Stats

Flash win it by (guess who?) a JR jumper on a Bill Walker assist. Here's the boxscore, hopefully we'll have a link to the game in a few days (or maybe not? I'm new to this). For those following, it looks like Bill's being used as the SF and JR's being used as a SG.

			Field Goals			Rebounds
	pos	min	fgm-a	3pm-a	ftm-a	off	def	tot	ast	pf	st	to	bs	pts
B.Walker	F	41:03	9-19	5-9	0-0	1	7	8	4	4	5	3	0	23
J.Giddens	G	45:21	8-18	1-4	2-5	4	8	12	1	2	1	4	2	19
Total		265	36-83	7-19	14-21	14	37	51	20	22	12	24	8	93
			43.4%	36.8%	66.7%	Team Rebs: 5				Total TO: 24

http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/boxscore.jsp?gameId=2020800004

Austin 93, Utah 91

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 28, 2008 – J.R. Giddens baseline jumper with 0.6 seconds left to play in overtime lifted the Utah Flash to a season-opening 93-91 victory over the Austin Toros Friday at the Austin Convention Center.

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A fanpost I thought was worth discussion on the front page - Jeff

So I've already posted in the Patrick O'Bryant thread about this more than a few times. I'm posting this mainly to simplify why I think O'Bryant's potential isn't translating into solid contributions on the floor yet and hopefully will cover some of the things I feel like Jeff missed in his post.

Reasons why Pat's not getting more burn:
1. Not tough enough in the post
2. Doesn't know the sets well enough
3. Not fast enough even if he does know the sets

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