Hey! The From Deep Fantasy All-Stars won something! I feel strangely buoyant with this knowledge. Thanks again to emailer Chris for his lovely debut guest blog yesterday. First time out and he gets props on www.truehoop.com . And now over to Mr. Dale for his round-up of the FDFA's turnaround. Thanks always to the (on)crack front office staff.
From Deep Fantasy All-Stars Update: Week 12
How we did: 5 category wins, 4 category losses. 49-57-2 overall, 7th.
Cue the disproportionate-to-the-importance-of-the-win celebration! (If the Minnesota Timberwolves can wildly celebrate a victory that makes them 6-and-34, as they did so hilariously yesterday, FDFA management can celebrate this one.) Sure, we only won 5-4; sure, Frizzboats was missing Andrew Bynum and T.J. Ford. To paraphrase many NBA players, though, this is a tough league, and nobody got sympathy for us when our guys are out, so we sure aren’t going to have sympathy for them when their guys are out. (Listen, a win is a win. They’re a good basketball team. Both teams played hard. We just wanted to make it difficult for them, and we did.)
Happy news! Kevin Martin, our still-underrated fantasy superstar, has returned with a vengeance! Ryan Gomes is playing as well as he did those games last year on Boston when he played well! Marcus Camby’s Giant Chinese Arm-Character has become so distracting that opponents are throwing their lay-ups directly into his hand!
Sad news! Mike Bibby has also returned, which means Stopgap Udrih is soon to reassume his usual role as Ineffective Udrih. Carlos Boozer, once our Mr. Consistent, is no longer consistent. (Does anybody know what happened? Should we blame Mehmet Okur?) Ricky Davis has stopped doing anything at all.
FDFA star of the week: Marcus Camby (5.3 bpg, 18 rpg, 11 ppg): Remember that time in 2001 when Keon Clark blocked 12 Atlanta Hawks shots? And it seemed like none at all from inside the lane would get to the rim, because that’s just how omnipresent Keon Clark was? That was Marcus Camby on Thursday…and, actually, much of the time, now. Amazingly, though, his 4.0 blocks per game are only 0.3 blocks per game more than he averaged for the Raptors in ’97-’98. Does anyone remember him being this dominant? I do not.
FDFA dog of the week: Rasheed Wallace (6.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 25.8% shooting): Who does he think he is, Andrea Bargnani?
Prediction for this week: Another win, I say. Doshi’s Dominators are in second-last; they have Mikki Moore, Ronnie Brewer, James Jones, Erick Dampier, and the increasingly minutes-limited Zydrunas Ilgauskas. I predict a 6-3 victory.
