SB Nation User Blog: douglast

Help Me Pick my League Pass Choice Teams

douglast — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:13:52 -0000

Help Me Pick my League Pass Choice Teams

Need 7 teams total, I can only watch games involving at least one of these teams
Blazers get spot #1 obviously
In order to maximize my coverage, picking all the top teams in the league is counterproductive, given that they are on national TV a lot
looking for ENTERTAINING teams to watch, not necessarily the best teams record-wise
OKC is probably a lock for a spot, with 2 of the big 3 in the East probably in as well. This gives me 3 more spots. Any suggestions?

Some Early Short thoughts on Game 1

douglast — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:26:22 -0000

Some Early Short thoughts on Game 1

Houston has been pushing the tempo, and we've been giving up lots of fast breaks. Interesting to see how that works out
Houston will start the 6'6" Chuck Hayes at center. Hayes is no pushover, but giving up 6 inches, Oden better get a LOT of chances down low
Related to the above, if Nate decides to go small ball for large chunks of the game instead of exploiting his own matchup advantage, so help me...
Will we look any better than last year at mitigating the damage of quick penetrating point guards?

Mills gets 15th spot

douglast — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:54:54 -0000

Mills gets 15th spot

just confirmed by Jason Quick on 95.5

Nate to open the season with Last Years Starters

douglast — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:21:40 -0000

Nate to open the season with Last Years Starters

Jason Quick just got done talking to Nate and came on the radio to report Nate will start Sunday's game against Denver--and is leaning towards doing the same to open the regular season--with a lineup of Blake, Roy, Batum, Aldridge, and Przybilla

RAMBO gets the start tonight

douglast — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:48:45 -0000

RAMBO gets the start tonight

Rudy vs. Nicolas: 9/17/09

douglast — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:25:49 -0000

Rudy vs. Nicolas: 9/17/09

Looks like Spain will face France in the first game of the quarter-finals on Thursday. Time is not yet set, but expect it to start in mid-morning Portland time.

Winner goes to the semis and gets a spot in the 2010 World Championships. Loser can finish no better than 5th and will have to win the next game to lock up a 2010 Worlds spot.

Miami offers Odom 5 and 35 full MLE essentially

douglast — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:39:51 -0000

Miami offers Odom 5 and 35

full MLE essentially

Jazz will match - what next?

douglast — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:06:15 -0000

http://www.kjzz.com/fansports/teams/utah-jazz/50976482.html

Salt Lake Radio is reporting that sources within the Jazz organization are confirming that they will indeed match the contract offer the Portland Trail Blazers gave to Paul Millsap, thus surprising pretty much no one.

So, what's next Portland fans? Odom? Andre Miller? Big Baby? David Lee? Trade or hold out for in-season deal?

Put me down for standing pat (for now), and hoping for a good deal to come along once the season gets going.

Poll

What Next?

Offer Lamar Odom

72 votes

Offer Andre Miller

11 votes

Offer Big Baby

14 votes

Offer David Lee

15 votes

Offer Ramon Sessions

40 votes

Offer Another Free Agent (explain)

3 votes

Work the trade phones, and roll into season if necessary

140 votes

295 votes | Poll has closed

What a Shock, Memphis pimping themselves again

douglast — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:35:36 -0000

What a Shock, Memphis pimping themselves again

Memphis has been recruited (shocker!) to be the facilitator in the Marion to Dallas deal. Reportedely Memphis is not going to net anything for it's trouble.

Memphis continues it's run of being the other 29 team's lacky.

Salary Cap 2010-11 Warnings: Potential help to PDX now?

douglast — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:51:21 -0000

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4312837&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines

The NBA has warned it's team that after falling about $1 million this year (to 57.7 million), the salary cap could plumment next summer to as low as 50.4 to 53.6 million, putting a damper on the 2010 free agent bonanza (and possibly leading to some early unexpected extensions THIS summer?).

Could this possibly help Portland in it's quest to find an unbalanced trade? Maybe. Consider the case of some random team trying to shed salary for the summer of 2010 and assuming they need to be about 17 million under the cap to offer a max deal. So they have been thinking all along they need to get down to around $40 million in salaries (assuming a 57 million cap number). But bam, now the cap is predicted to drop 3.5 to 7 million below that level. All of a sudden, they could see themselves need to shed an extra chunk of change to clear that coveted space. Could this be an opportunity for Portland to swoop in this summer or before the deadline and grab a player that might otherwise have never been made available?

Who knows, but it seems at least plausible, doesn't it?