The Straight Hoop

The Utah Jazz seem to have an embarrassment of riches of big men. Two veteran pivots, in Paul Milsap and Al Jefferson, and two young bigs, Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors waiting in the wings. With the quality of players at both positions the problem becomes minutes. Here's a hint why, there isn't enough. This leads us to another question, who goes and who stays. Of course not a simple question to answer. With the news breaking that the Jazz will entertain trades for either Jefferson or Paul Milsap I thought I would throw my two-cents into the bloggesphere. Cause there aren't enough opinions there already right? I got to say, the more I think about it the more I think that the Jazz could be a scary playoff opponent if they make one more move. The jump to semi-contention is waiting for the Jazz and it starts with Derrick Favors. Derrick Favors is getting around 21 minutes off the bench and it is becoming clear that he deserves more. If don't get where I'm going wi

Apparently there are 4s.  The Knicks are a very interesting team. They easily have one of the oldest teams in the league, 3 pieces that still havent found out how to fit well together yet, and Rasheed Wallace. With an injury to Amare Stoudemire keeping him out 6-8 weeks the Knicks have some rotation tweaks to make at the 4. I am no stranger to Carmelo's versitlity and has ability to play the 3 and 4 effectively and neither are the Knicks. With Melo at the 4 and Tyson Chandler at the 5 the Knicks posted 107.6 points per 100 possessions, the highest for a Knicks lineup that played at least 100 minutes together. While we wont be seeing this exact same lineup featuring Baron Davis, Landry Fields, and Iman Shumpert, the new edition of Ronnie Brewer and the return of JR Smith and Raymond Felton should be able to at least match or improve the Knicks offense with Melo being Melo at the 4. The Interesting thing about the lineup of Melo, Tyson, B.Diddy, Shump, and Fields was that it a

With the NBA back for an amazing full length season, I have decided to throw my hat into the massive pool that is Basketball blogging. Here, I will be analyzing the recent goings on and rumbling throughout the league. As for myself, I am a Seattlite that misses the Sonics, a lot. I cannot understate this. I miss them bad. Which basically makes Chris Hanson my hero. But while I wait to get the Green and Gold back in my life I will, look objectively out unto the NBA landscape and give my 2 cents on other peoples teams I guess. I have a couple ideas on my first pieces. All in all Im pretty excited. Should be a fun season, as long as the Mayans weren't right. For all of us I hope they weren't.