Rants and Ranks

Rasheed Wallace is on the Lakers radar.  I've read conflicting reports as to whether he has actually signed, or they are just looking at him.  All I can say is WOW.  If they are going to do this, they may as well go all out.  Not only with an Arenas signing too, but trade all the current roster except Metta World Peace and Matt Barnes for DeMarcus Cousins, Andray Blatche, Michael Beasley, JR Smith, Eddy Curry, Stephen Jackson, DeShawn Stevenson, Delonte West, Jamaal Tinsley, and Kenyon Martin.  This my friends, would be the greatest bonehead team ever assembled.  I'm pretty sure they would have to forfeit the rest of the season due to a mass murder at practice. 

As I mentioned in part one,  I didn't have too big of beef with the starters.  Carmelo is somewhat of a question mark, but since he's not past is prime I'll let him slide.   So I was interested to see if the coaches could keep up the good work.  And surprisingly they had a few blunders.  Here are the guys I totally disagreed with: Paul Pierce- This was ridiculous.  Even PP was surprised by this.  Honestly I would have picked Ray Allen, who carried the load while Pierce was out.  Even Rondo is more deserving, and he has missed a few games this year.  Steve Nash- Yeah his assist numbers are good, and he's doing things that no other 89 year old PG should do, but he's not the 4th best PG in the West, (and according to the voting he is) so he shouldn't have made it.  Dirk Nowitzki- Sure the dude has picked it up the last few games, but he admitted he wasn't ready to play at the beginning of the season, then took off games to g...

If you didn't catch part one click here. I'm a big believer in chemistry over talent.  Which is why in rounding out the starting lineups for teams, I didn't always pick the next logical choice based off of talent.  I like the teams that compliment one another, and win because of it.  I mean why get LeBron when you already got DWade?  I mean they cancel each other out.  Oh, I guess that did happen.  Well, how about this one: why draft Steph Curry when you already got Monta Ellis... hmm I guess not a good one either.  Why draft Ricky Rubio and Johnny Flynn with back to back picks?  Crap that's the worst one yet.  Well the NBA isn't perfect I guess, and I'm sure neither is this list, but let's check it out.  (Note: I didn't write out the order of the rest of the picks, just the starting lineup for each team, and my grade on how well the lineup will work out.) Bobcats- PG Kirk Hinrich SG Tony Allen SF LeBron James PF Dejuan Blair C Tys...

A lot of teams would like to hit the reset button on their current teams.  Start over from scratch, and hope for the best.  OK maybe not "a lot" but a few would.  I sometimes think, "If a team could select any player to start a franchise with, who would it be?"  So instead of thinking, I decided to write it all down.  Many would say that it would just go purely off of talent, and it would to an extent, but I think there would be more to it.  A struggling small market franchise would want Kobe just because he is the biggest name in basketball. That's not a backhanded compliment at Kobe, but long term you wouldn't want to build around Kobe.  He would be great for your team in more of a business sense.  More bang for the buck right now.  A large market like NYC would probably chance a younger, possibly lesser talented star, just due to the fact the people will come regardless because it's MSG, and they have a long-term investmen...