Yeah, off a crosscourt inbounds pass from Grant Hill

I went nuts when Gortat hit that 3.

But it has been so long since we have seen a 100% Yao. I think Dwight should be able to hold his own, seeing as he was much quicker than Yao before but could never finish (offensive game had not developed the way it has over the last two seasons). I will say this though, if Yao comes back healthy and makes it through the whole season, the Rockets will be my pick for a potential Laker upset. The Thunder are my future west coast dynasty pick, but the Rockets would give the Lakers hell.

..but if dwight improves his passing, we’ll be OK

Pick up Channing Frye in December, when he’s no longer unable to be traded. He’s BYC, so Bass + cash for Frye + Clark would work. Then we trade Howard and Nelson for Deron Williams and Mehmet Okur.

And yes, I’m joking. That would be horrible.

There’s Bosh, Dirk, Odom & Pau.

We don’t want our PF trying to get offensive boards. If we had another good big man, in theory we could let Dwight try for more offensive rebounds so that could potentially be a plus but Dwight’s transition D is so important to the team I don’t know that it would be worth it. Not many people can guard Pau & Odom. Boozer can’t guard either and he struggles to score on them. It’s going to be BOS, MIA & LA that really test Rashard. He’s a decent-good matchup for almost any other NBA team and the ones where he’s overmatched we’re a better team than all except BOS, MIA & LA but they’re all beatable.

We went to the Finals and then to the ECF with that very system and with 2 completely different groups of players. Only one team has done better than us the past 2 seasons and that’s the Lakers because of the tainted Gasol trade. Boston is the next closest with a Finals appearance and a second round exit. If we had Dirk instead of Rashard would you feel different about the stretch 4 position?

You’re right that Rashard was signed as an SF but never played SF in Orlando. SVG said something about wishing he’d played him more at SF when he first arrived but I think he sees enough in practive to know he’d hurt the team if he played exclusively at SF at this point in his career.

I think there’s zero chance we go traditional while Rashard is still under contract. When a guy is that polished an offensive player you have to find a spot for him and SVG determined that they’d be able to best hide Rashard’s lack of defense at PF where he could use his quickness to make them work on defense and he’d have help in the middle from Dwight. I may not trust every move Otis makes but I don’t question SVG because he knows his team and players much better than any of us. He probably knows the players better than they know themselves.

but we still shoot too many jumpers/3s…we dont have a slasher that can get fouled and go to the line..vc just drives and does his weird layup shot that fails…pietrus looks like he will lose the ball or fall every time he drives, and Lewis just doesnt have any swag. He barely drives at all.