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The Cavs Are the New Cankles*
Ilgauskas reportedly agrees to a five-year deal with Cleveland, and Ohio LeBlog says:
"Welcome back Z. Although I don't agree with a five-year contract given his feet can barely withstand a game, I will look past this. He is arguably the second-best center in the East and invaluable to the Cavs success."
Which is fine, but, as a Wizards fan, LeBlog's comments about the Cavs' signing of Larry Hughes were overboard:
"[Hughes] is a playmaker and amazing defender, something we lacked... But the reason this signing was so special is that I am surrounded by Wizards/Bullets fans. And let me tell you..when I started saying the Cavs are getting Hughes before it was in the major media sources (thx ABJ), the comments I heard were priceless... People didn't believe it b/c the Wiz had found their nucleus. The Hughes/Arenas/Jamison trio was their future. But now... nothing. The team must once again rebuild."
LeBlog goes on to talk more smack, which is also fine, b/c he's a Cavs fan and, as a Wiz fan, I can relate to the long, lonely road he has had to endure. But he should know this: Hughes is overrated. 82Games didn't even rate him as one of the top 50 players in the league in '04-'05, and it was by far Hughes' best season! He was only the fourth-best player on the Wizards. And now Cleveland will pay him between $13-14 million per year until 2011.
That's not to say Hughes can't become a Pippenesque player in Cleveland, or that the Wiz didn't want Hughes (they offered him a long-term, $10 million+ per year deal). But it is to say that he would never soar to such great heights in Washington.
And it doesn't hurt that there's a Kwame-for-Caron deal in the works.
* As defined by the Urban Dictionary, cankles are "the area in affected female legs where the calf meets the foot in an abrupt, nontapering terminus. From the English "calf" meaning wide portion of the lower leg, and "ankle" meaning slender joint of leg with foot."
This is how you'd use it in a sentence, "If I didn't have cankles, I might be able to wear those Prada loafers with my capri pants."
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It really surprises me how much higher people are on Caron now than they were at the end season. Caron played his best ball when lamar was out, and Lamar is going to be an intricate part this season, at the small forward. The Lakers have no starting PF right now. They may see something in Kwame, afterall he still is the guy that convinced Michael Jordan to take him first overall. Look at how good Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Rip Hamilton, Bobby Simmons, and Chris Webber did once they left Washington. Caron Butler is a small forward, as of right now the Lakers have Lamar Odom, Devean George, Jumaine Jones, and restricted free agent Luke Walton who are also small forwards. Caron would be great in the triangle if he could defend 1s, and even though he's working out with Kobe this offseason, he couldn't defend 3s this season, so theres no reason to think in one offseason he'd go from not being able to guard 3s to being able to guard 1s. As for thinking Mitch is Isiah, come on now - its a little premature for that.
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Kwame for Caron? Sheesh. At this point it wouldn't surprise me at the press conference if Isiah Thomas pulls off a Mitch Kupchak mask and reveals he's killed Kupchak and been running the Lakers himself over the past year.
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Hughes may be a better scorer than Cooper, but he's much closer to Cooper than Pippen, as is Lebron to Magic than Jordan.
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Thanks for the great comments, guys. I'm really enjoying it, especially Yannis' comparison of 'Bron and Hughes to Magic and Cooper (although Hughes is twice the scorer Cooper was).
Keep 'em comin'!
Jamie
7/13/05 12:49 AM