hey, watching the lakers on kcal9 since i cant get barojax's stream of gsw. has anyone else noticed the star design on Lamar Odoms head? is it a tattoo or a design in his head? Cuz I can't really tell

Ps. if you guys want you can delete this, but maybe keep it up for a couple of hours???? I just wanna see if anyone knows the details

On detroitbadboys.com site, there is an article about the "All-Overated First and Second Team."

http://www.detroitbadboys.com/archives/2007-10-19/all-overrated-first-and-second-teams/

Considering it is a Pistons site, its not surprising to see Ben Wallace on there. There are other people on there as well, some being more surprising. Namely, The Yay's own Jason Kidd. Now I know most people would think this is wrong, since Kidd can be considered the modern day Magic, the last true point guard, etc etc but thats not why I'm posting this. Guess who made the second team all-overated?? Our very own MONTA ELLIS.

I for one semi-agree with the author that Ellis is overated. But thats not necesarily saying he's a bad player. Its just that I don't feel he is ever going to be able to reach the hype that we, as Warriors fans, and media members have created for him. Now, I love  him to death, no homo. The way he plays is exciting, he makes a ton of 'wow' plays and he gets me on my feet even at home. He has the potential to be a good player, maybe borderline All-Star, but honestly I don't see more than that. He can be an All-Star in the form of a Wally Sczerbiak (sp?) or Jamal Magloire, meaning players who at the time made sense but 5 years down the line, we wonder how he made it.

As a player, I see his ceiling as high as J-Rich. I mean this by how he impacts the game. Now, J-Rich is a pretty good player, so that wouldn't be a bad thing to achieve. But there are times where it feels like his presence was hurtin the Warriors more than helping. With Monta, I feel like he doesn't have a good enough handle, or a good enough jumper to take over a game, similar to Lebron did against the Pistons. Monta is going to be a good player, but he won't be "the player" if you get what I'm saying. J-Rich was a good player, crowd pleasin etc. but his deficiencies from the line, on defense, and for the most part in the clutch seemed to doom us. I miss him, and wish he was still on the W's, so I'm not just hating. But I see the same thing with Monta, his deficiencies coming back to hurt us more than help us. Like J-Rich, we will struggle if he is option #1.

I don't wanna seem all negative and what not, so if I am just let me know and I'll try to explain myself better. But I'm just stating my opinion after reading this article. I'm not trynna hate, as I said before based on what I believe as the expectations that have been placed on Monta, he is overated. That doesn't necesarily mean he's a bad player though.

Any thoughts, comments, or hatred on what I said or on the article. I encourage all to read it cuz its pretty interesting.

I know this isn't the right place to post this, so delete this if you like OZ. But I just got off work and found out that USC lost 24-23 to Stanford. STANFORD!!! the school with a tree for a mascot. Cal's Palo Alto neighbors.

This is really good news for Berkeley fans. The Golden Bears are going to at least be ranked number 2 in the polls, and with LSU barely pulling through against Florida, Cal has the slight possibility to be ranked numero uno.

Although this is really exciting  it is probably moot though considering Cal-USC face off next week. And it could be dangerous for Cal because the Trojans will probably be hungry after this loss. But for at least a week Cal will be number 2 or possibly 1. And if they beat USC next week, they are in good shape.

Once again, I know this isn't the right forum, so delete it if needed, but I've seen other Cal related info here before.....and im just mutha f***in juiced!

With the signing of T-Hud and Croshere, I have a question regarding their contracts. I know that the NBA is paying apart of both players contracts for whatever reason, but how much of that contract counts against the salary cap? The entire portion or is it just the portion that Warriors are paying?? Thanks for the help

According to Tim Kawakami and his latest blog, the Warriors should go after Darrell Armstrong, instead of Jason Williams. What does everybody think about this???

http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/kawakami/2007/09/18/jason-williams-a-warrior-not-likely-because-darre ll-armstrong-makes-much-more-sense/

I for one wouldn't like this because Armstrong is 40 years old and I doubt he could run with us. He does not seem like a good fit.