Monday, November 14, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
NBA 2011 Mock Draft: The ULTIMATE EDITION
Well, it has certainly been a while hasn't it? I even forgot I had a blog for a while, mainly because I sort of abandoned ship due to a lack of readership compared to time invested and the whole "Decision" debacle derailing the Rodger Bramley sports-hype train.
Before I get started with the actual article, I'd like to fill you in about my life real quickly. I graduated, finally, and will be attending Ohio University in the Fall. There I will study journalism and try to bring this passion for sports and writing of mine into some sort of career. I'm still just as obsessed with the Cavs, and in ways I actually like them more because of the underdog spirit and scrappy demeanor they've picked up. The Cavs this year, while nowhere near as good, embody Cleveland in a much more fuller sense than the teams of recent memory. The Mavericks beat the Heat, and for one (or more depending on the lockout, but let's hope they can handle their business) year, sanity remained in the NBA. For all the lunacy and hype during the season, team basketball won the only real important basketball milestone of the year.
Enough rambling, though. The basketball gods smiled on our hometown Cavs and landed us the first and fourth pick in this Thursday's draft. While this draft has been labeled as one of the weakest in recent memory, as far as franchise-altering talent goes, it's actually pretty strong in overall talent. Expect a lot of contributors, solid starters, and maybe three all-stars out of this group. Maybe, just maybe, there will be a franchise talent. That's what the Cavs are hoping, and with one and four, fans should at least expect to have two of the five positions filled for the foreseeable future. Couple this with the trade exception and a couple of expendable players (Jamison, Sessions) and the future looks surprisingly bright. And if all else fails we can give Nick Gilbert the Wilt Chamberlain goggles and stick him in the post, "what's not to like?"
Before I get started with the actual article, I'd like to fill you in about my life real quickly. I graduated, finally, and will be attending Ohio University in the Fall. There I will study journalism and try to bring this passion for sports and writing of mine into some sort of career. I'm still just as obsessed with the Cavs, and in ways I actually like them more because of the underdog spirit and scrappy demeanor they've picked up. The Cavs this year, while nowhere near as good, embody Cleveland in a much more fuller sense than the teams of recent memory. The Mavericks beat the Heat, and for one (or more depending on the lockout, but let's hope they can handle their business) year, sanity remained in the NBA. For all the lunacy and hype during the season, team basketball won the only real important basketball milestone of the year.
Enough rambling, though. The basketball gods smiled on our hometown Cavs and landed us the first and fourth pick in this Thursday's draft. While this draft has been labeled as one of the weakest in recent memory, as far as franchise-altering talent goes, it's actually pretty strong in overall talent. Expect a lot of contributors, solid starters, and maybe three all-stars out of this group. Maybe, just maybe, there will be a franchise talent. That's what the Cavs are hoping, and with one and four, fans should at least expect to have two of the five positions filled for the foreseeable future. Couple this with the trade exception and a couple of expendable players (Jamison, Sessions) and the future looks surprisingly bright. And if all else fails we can give Nick Gilbert the Wilt Chamberlain goggles and stick him in the post, "what's not to like?"
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