nba website, c's no pg?

[ozman]

Recently read the 'of season reports' for the off season. Interesting to see that the author thinks the Celtics don't have a back up point guard? i would of thought we now had an additional 2 if not 3 quality point guards coming of the bench.

[ozman]

sorry here is link if any one is intrested

http://www.nba.com/reportcard/summer/2010/celtics/

[guava_wrench]

Very odd.

[StartOrien]

So with a MLE, retaining every rotational player on the Eastern Conference Championship team outside of Tony Allen, acquiring Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Delonte West and keeping your own first round pick to draft a player who a year ago out of HS was rated higher than the overall #1 pick, that..... that gets you a 'B'?

[fairweatherfan]

Defense = C.  And right after pumping Bradley as the best perimeter defender in the draft.  Interesting.  Must be some sort of weird regression to the mean math at work here - "sorry guys, you didn't dramatically improve one of the best defenses in league history, that's a C for you!"

[fairweatherfan]

And OKC got an A despite no major additions.  This guy can't seem to decide if he's rating offseason changes or how good he thinks the team is.  Very fuzzy rating system.



EDIT:  I have cornered the market on 4s apparently.

[Chris]

I am confused how "they'll still be near the top of the league on that end" equals a C on defense.  As always, I am incredibly disappointed by the level of writing by 90% of the media.  Just lazy work.

[Roy H.]

And OKC got an A despite no major additions.  This guy can't seem to decide if he's rating offseason changes or how good he thinks the team is.  Very fuzzy rating system.



EDIT:  I have cornered the market on 4s apparently.

Yeah, it's very odd.  It seems like with OKC, he's grading the team as a whole (i.e., references to Durant, Green, etc.), while with the Celtics he's only looking at the off-season.

[StartOrien]

So with a MLE, retaining every rotational player on the Eastern Conference Championship team outside of Tony Allen, acquiring Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Delonte West and keeping your own first round pick to draft a player who a year ago out of HS was rated higher than the overall #1 pick, that..... that gets you a 'B'?

Also forgot re-signing Paul Pierce to a reasonable contract, resigning Ray Allen for less than the market dictated and adding Von Wafer.

[Roy H.]

So with a MLE, retaining every rotational player on the Eastern Conference Championship team outside of Tony Allen, acquiring Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Delonte West and keeping your own first round pick to draft a player who a year ago out of HS was rated higher than the overall #1 pick, that..... that gets you a 'B'?

Also forgot re-signing Paul Pierce to a reasonable contract, resigning Ray Allen for less than the market dictated and adding Von Wafer.

Plus resigning Nate and Marquis to modest deals, and getting what looks like a decent value in Harangody in the 2nd.

[Chris]

So with a MLE, retaining every rotational player on the Eastern Conference Championship team outside of Tony Allen, acquiring Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Delonte West and keeping your own first round pick to draft a player who a year ago out of HS was rated higher than the overall #1 pick, that..... that gets you a 'B'?

Also forgot re-signing Paul Pierce to a reasonable contract, resigning Ray Allen for less than the market dictated and adding Von Wafer.

Plus resigning Nate and Marquis to modest deals, and getting what looks like a decent value in Harangody in the 2nd.

But that would require research.  Clearly, this guy was too busy, and somehow convinced his editor that because he is doing it for 30 teams, that he could not spend more than 15 minutes of work per team.  Journalism at its best! 

[Roy H.]

So with a MLE, retaining every rotational player on the Eastern Conference Championship team outside of Tony Allen, acquiring Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Delonte West and keeping your own first round pick to draft a player who a year ago out of HS was rated higher than the overall #1 pick, that..... that gets you a 'B'?

Also forgot re-signing Paul Pierce to a reasonable contract, resigning Ray Allen for less than the market dictated and adding Von Wafer.

Plus resigning Nate and Marquis to modest deals, and getting what looks like a decent value in Harangody in the 2nd.

But that would require research.  Clearly, this guy was too busy, and somehow convinced his editor that because he is doing it for 30 teams, that he could not spend more than 15 minutes of work per team.  Journalism at its best! 

Actually, believe it or not, they had several different writers working on these, which makes it even worse. 

[StartOrien]

So with a MLE, retaining every rotational player on the Eastern Conference Championship team outside of Tony Allen, acquiring Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal, Delonte West and keeping your own first round pick to draft a player who a year ago out of HS was rated higher than the overall #1 pick, that..... that gets you a 'B'?

Also forgot re-signing Paul Pierce to a reasonable contract, resigning Ray Allen for less than the market dictated and adding Von Wafer.

Plus resigning Nate and Marquis to modest deals, and getting what looks like a decent value in Harangody in the 2nd.

But that would require research.  Clearly, this guy was too busy, and somehow convinced his editor that because he is doing it for 30 teams, that he could not spend more than 15 minutes of work per team.  Journalism at its best! 

Actually, believe it or not, they had several different writers working on these, which makes it even worse. 

One to write the letters, one to cut them up, and one to supply the hat

[wdleehi]

Check out Sac.


Not a single grade less then a C+ equals an average of a C-


Talk about a mean curve.