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Awwww... How cute. He thinks he has talent.

Looking at the shot chart he has made a corner mid range jumper at 1 minute left in the first quarter. Still, it's not just THIS game, he's doing very well to start the season. With all the additions that Memphis made, I had no idea Gasol was going to improve this much. Right now, he's looking just about as good as his brother. It looks like Memphis didn't get screwed over in that LA trade after all.

Wtf is wrong with Gasol. He has 15 points and 7 boards at halftime.

I don't think he planned to in the first place. I knew the Heat would have a great season. Not too much to say about this game. It was a good defensive game with lots of lead changes until one team came ontop at the end. Hinrich played some great D on Wade, especially in the 4th quarter. Good thing Haslem was able to make his open Js, and Q-Rich hit that one 3 that pretty much gave Miami the edge on this game. The Bulls clearly have a very solid defensive squad that can make them stick with any team in the league. As a team they did a good job keeping the ball away from key players, holding Jermaine to only 6 shots attempted (8 points), Beasley to 10 points (3-12 shooting), and Wade to 8-19 shooting, 4 TOs, only 1 rebound, and only 3 assists. Role players stepped up their offensive production, with Haslem having 19 points and 11 boards, Chalmers with 11 points, 4 assists, and 4 steals, and Arroyo with 12 points off the bench. Wright and Anthony played a good defensive game combining for 5 blocks. Anyway, does anyone know what happened to Daequan?

JO needs to get some more touches. Only 3 shot attempts so far. UD has done a great job picking up the slack. He looked very aggressive from the moment he stepped on the floor. 11 points 7 boards so far. Beasley has done a good job on the boards as well.

I think there is a typo on the boxscore. It says JJ Redick already has 25 points.

Wow, the Raptors are shooting over 55% and the Magic are shooting 44%... and guess who's up double-digits?

On ball D is automatic. Hold the left trigger for "intense D". To deny your man the ball, push the right stick towards him.

I think the Heat can ride their momentum over the Bulls. I'd like to see Beasley and Cook bounce back from their poor performances against the Pacers. Hopefully O'Neal will keep up his level of play of 22 points and 12 boards from his first two games this season. Chalmers hasn't had any significantly great performances yet. Rose isn't known for his defense, so I wonder if Rio will show any offensive spark tonight. Q-Rich hasn't shown much of anything for the majority of his 45 total minutes from the past two games. Only getting 7 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and no steals or blocks total so far. He's played some pretty good help defense, but that's ALL I've seen from him.

Mario Chalmers Dwyane Wade Quentin Richardson Michael Beasley Jermaine O'Neal It's subject to change throughout the season, but for now, this is how the Heat's line up looks.

70 wins? Nah. They are going 81-1 this year.

That makes sense, if he can still manage to bring a scoring punch at least close to the way he did before the injuries. Would you rather have him start or come off the bench, though?

Between 40 and 45 sounds about right to me.

I don't know how T-Mac would fit after coming back from injury.. Right now, Ariza is given a similar role to what T-Mac had before. I don't know how beneficial it would be to have two similar types of players on the floor at the same time. They are both streaky, so I don't know. Personally, I think Battier should remain as a starter, and keep Ariza in the starting position as well if he keeps up this level of play, and move T-Mac as a sixth man off the bench, but would he be willing to accept that role?

This is making me wonder whether Artest is truly the better player for the Lakers.

I watched the 4th quarter of this game, and wow, choke job by Houston at the FT line, but they still won. What a game by Brooks and Ariza, though. Brooks did a nice job hitting big shots and making big momentum plays. And who would have guess how quickly Ariza would have fit into the role of first scoring option? I know he's a bit streaky, but it's still impressive.

Same here.

You don't think that Rondo will be named up with those players by the end of his career? He has already put up triple-double numbers in the playoffs at only 23 years old. At this rate, he may have an HoF career.

Unfortunately, this award isn't given with that mindset anymore, if it ever was. If it is, then Kobe would have at least 3 MVPs by now. Instead, this award is given to the best player of the best team (in my opinion it should be given to the truly "most valuable" player, meaning the player who is most valuable to his team, but whatever). If the Celtics wind up with the best record in the league by a good margin, then the player with the best season performance will be given the award, and Rondo has a chance to prove that. BTW, I don't think he will actually get the award, but considering this, I don't think it's impossible.

He'll need to improve his points to more like around 17 PPG, plus 12 assists and a good number of boards, steals, and highlight plays and he should be a candidate.

And Ronny Turiaf for Jerryd Bayless.

Either KG or Rondo, but even though I know Rondo has been extremely solid for the Celtics, it's really hard to see him as a league MVP... so it goes to Garnett.

Being that his likely competition will be Jefferson, Biedrins, Kaman, Bynum, and Okur, and maybe Oden... there could be a chance. I don't see him getting past Jefferson if he's healthy, but he should definitely have a stronger year than Okur and Biedrins, and maybe Kaman since he has Camby and Griffin taking up the rebounding and stuffing up the stats. Bynum is looking like he's going to have a strong year, so we'll see. So far, I say he won't be an all star, but he does have a chance. Although he is a very important piece to the Nuggets, I don't think he's quite an all star caliber player.

There is no such thing as "too far" when it comes to The Onion.

Starters: Jason Kidd Tracy McGrady LeBron James Pau Gasol Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Bench: Raja Bell Lamar Odom Blake Griffin Coach: Phil Jackson - Triangle Offense Primary Scorer: LeBron James Facilitator: Jason Kidd Perfect. Everyone can shoot. Everyone can post (expect maybe Bell). Everyone can defend (except T-Mac, although good team D would make him look better the way Detroit did for Rip and Boston did for Ray). Perfect fit for Phil Jackson's Triangle Offense, which has proven to work so well over the years. With only an 8 man team, I chose players with flexibility. T-Mac and Bell can play both wing positions. Pau and Griffin can play both big positions. James and Odom can play all positions. All in all, I have at least 4 players in the depth chart for every position.