With their big win over the Clippers last night, the Cavaliers have cemented their West Coast trip destiny firmly as “scenario #1″, which is perfectly acceptable for us.
It was a nice, hard-fought win, and for whatever reason, makes us want to take a closer look at the struggling Clippers.
What’s wrong with them? Is it a subdued Chris Kaman? A slightly gimpy Sam Cassell? A Shaun Livingston who can’t fully develop because of the ‘u’ in his name? A sleepy Elton Brand?
We’re gonna say “probably a little of all of that”, but there’s another thing wrong here – the constant trade threat/rumor surrounding bench-man Corey Maggette. We’ve about had it with them, and here’s why:
Isn’t Corey Maggette good? Like, isn’t he way better than Shirtless Cuttino Mobley? Why does Coach Mike hate him so much?
Let’s take a look at his innovative-yet-useless NBA DOT COM widget (to the left) to educate ourselves.
Clearly, the man can score, rebound, hand out assists, and other things. There – case solved.
Seriously, what’s the deal here? We sit back and hear how nobody wants this guy and it’s just like, “But he’s good, right? Isn’t he good?”
We really don’t know what else to say here, except we seriously need someone to verify that Corey Maggette is good. He’s good right? The man can play the game of basketball? He can take the ball and then dribble it and then do something that results in an increase in his team’s point total, correct?
Is anybody even reading or all you all too busy watching the NFL Playoffs to worry about Corey Maggette? If so, that’s odd, because our weekend priority list looks somethiing like this: Eat/breathe, Corey Maggette realistic talent level concerns, work, sleep.
Get with it, go Cavs, that’s all.
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I watched the game last night with my girlfriend, and told her how the Clippers wanted to trade Maggette. She asked why anyone would want to trade him. I shrugged. So anyway my girlfriend agrees with you.
His name rhymes with spaghetti, so knowing that I should write a lot of NBA-dinner poetry.
Boney’s Weekend Priority List: 1) Watching both showings of the epic classic “Howard the Duck” on Encore channels. 2) Watch Detroit Pistons lose to Atlanta Hawks but then scrape by Boston Celtics 3) Laundry
I was raised on bread and balogna,
My dad’s name is Tony Barone.
Nothing but a side dish, my rice pilaf.
Not a stating center like Ronny Turiaf.
The kids like meatballs on their spaghetti,
They wouldn’t trade that for Corey Maggette.
The two reasons the clippers are struggling are thus:
reason 1. Sam cassell has been hurt. No sam or half sam = craptitude for clippers. sam is like a gilbert arenas (as long as others like caron butler, elton brand do dirty work stuff, sam and gil can convince their teammates that they’re going to win the game with 0.00001 seconds left).
reason 2. Dunleavy’s treatment of maggette is sickening. If he played anywhere else, especially the east, he’d probably get serious consideration for the all star team. For all those people that cringe when kobe puts up 30 points on 30 shot attempts, Maggette’s the guy that puts up 25 points on 2.2 shots.
Dunleavy’s gone power mad perhaps, becuase he starts quinton ross and gives tim thomas minutes that should go to maggette. The irony is that dunleavy says Maggette’s poor defense is why he comes off the bench, but then replaces him with Tim Thomas who couldn’t guard quinton ross. Quinton ross appropriately enough, is the worst offensive player in the nba.
reason 2, number 2. Not enough applesauce.
If his name rhymed with baguette instead everyone would want him.
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