Warthog
04-04-2007, 08:35 PM
ESPN.com: Page 2 : Bill Simmons Blog (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/blog/index?name=simmons)
Check out question #2 which I submitted to Simmons the other night
2. Couldn't agree more with this rant from Jason R. in Michigan:
"Has any other year been as ruined as 2007 for fantasy basketball in the Oden/Durant sweepstakes? Leagues need to start the playoffs 3-4 weeks earlier … by that time you know who's going to be making the playoffs anyway, and teams aren't in full tank mode just yet. Take a look at all of the fantasy studs who WON'T be helping your team in the playoffs: Michael Redd, Paul Pierce, Joe Johnson, Ray Allen, Zach Randolph … and then you've got other decent guys like Bogut, Charlie V and Mike Miller. If you have two or more of those guys on your team you can basically stick a fork in your season."
That reminds me, I made the semifinals of NBA.com's Celebrity Fantasy League (http://ufc.nba.com/basketball/nbacares/league_home.asp) even after getting racked by injuries down the stretch: Dwyane Wade (that killed me obviously), Andrew Bogut (out for the year with tankasitis), Shaun Livingston (blown-out knee), Andrea Bargnani (knocked out for the season right when he was coming on) and Jermaine O'Neal (whose knee is so unreliable from game to game that I actually benched him this week because I couldn't take it anymore). My team has been thinned down to the point that I have Ersan Ilyasova AND Anderson Varejao starting against the Pam Anderson/Kid Rock juggernaut this week. Frustrating. But if …
(Hold on, here's a sentence I never, ever thought I'd write in my life.)
… But if I can just hold on against Pam Anderson and Kid Rock this week, and Wade can come back for the final few games, I truly believe my team could give Meat Loaf a run for his money in the finals.
(Let's just move on.)
Check out question #2 which I submitted to Simmons the other night
2. Couldn't agree more with this rant from Jason R. in Michigan:
"Has any other year been as ruined as 2007 for fantasy basketball in the Oden/Durant sweepstakes? Leagues need to start the playoffs 3-4 weeks earlier … by that time you know who's going to be making the playoffs anyway, and teams aren't in full tank mode just yet. Take a look at all of the fantasy studs who WON'T be helping your team in the playoffs: Michael Redd, Paul Pierce, Joe Johnson, Ray Allen, Zach Randolph … and then you've got other decent guys like Bogut, Charlie V and Mike Miller. If you have two or more of those guys on your team you can basically stick a fork in your season."
That reminds me, I made the semifinals of NBA.com's Celebrity Fantasy League (http://ufc.nba.com/basketball/nbacares/league_home.asp) even after getting racked by injuries down the stretch: Dwyane Wade (that killed me obviously), Andrew Bogut (out for the year with tankasitis), Shaun Livingston (blown-out knee), Andrea Bargnani (knocked out for the season right when he was coming on) and Jermaine O'Neal (whose knee is so unreliable from game to game that I actually benched him this week because I couldn't take it anymore). My team has been thinned down to the point that I have Ersan Ilyasova AND Anderson Varejao starting against the Pam Anderson/Kid Rock juggernaut this week. Frustrating. But if …
(Hold on, here's a sentence I never, ever thought I'd write in my life.)
… But if I can just hold on against Pam Anderson and Kid Rock this week, and Wade can come back for the final few games, I truly believe my team could give Meat Loaf a run for his money in the finals.
(Let's just move on.)