Because typically his posts are a lot more fun. I like Almost Famous and agree it’s up there as one of the better films of this decade (not sure best but most probably watchable), but I didn’t think that was a really good article and thought the AF references got tedious…

You’re just making up positions for Simmons and then arguing against them.

Where does Simmons say that swinging for single and doubles is a good thing? He’s ripped the bulls for not adding an all-star while they had the chance. He’s also advocating them sitting out this year and adding an all-star like Wade next year. Isn’t that swinging for a home run, instead of re-signing Gordon, and hoping Rose improves enough all by himself to take them from first round losers to Championship contenders?

I’m surprised 2 posts in a row about Almost Famous. I don’t like that style of music (the Journey, Grand Funk, total 70s schlocky crap) and I am not the biggest Cameron Crowe fan (Say Anything was good though) but I thought Almost Famous was about as perfect a feel good, rock and roll movie as there could be….

My wife didn’t like it either (though she rarely likes anything that isn’t some REALLY crappy romantic comedy)

Tom Cruise may get a pass for his role in Tropic Thunder; other than that, I dunno.

And I don’t know where all the TOm Cruise can’t act crap is….

He was great in Magnolia, phenomenally great in that movie. His acting was superb in Eyes Wide Shut (I liked that movie too, but I love Kubrick, but regardless of your thoughts on that movie, Tom Cruise played his part well), he was phenomenally great both in the fantastic Rain Man, and he did a great job in Born on the 4th of July.

Tom Cruise can act…I haven’t liked many of his choices (Vanilla Sky, Minority Report, never saw the Mission Impossibles—though heard they were good), but as an actor he’s really good…

Not making the ridiculous shooting Peja look all that great. Posey took a back seat in NO, jULIAN Wright’s never figured anything out, MoPete’s dropped way down, Antonio Daniels has dropped way down….

Chandler’s a lot better when healthy than the spurned Bulls fans want to admit.

anyway, rasual butler is a below average player, always has been always will be, and he was the same below average on the heat that he is now with the hornets. check his numbers, they haven’t changed, chris paul hasn’t magically made him better. In fact, his career high in PER by far was the blistering 14.0 he put up in miami in 03-04.

all i said was that chris paul does not have the magical ability to make players better. i agree that all that they were last year was paul and west; my posts have been in response to your statement that “chris paul could make my grandma look like an nba starter.” i don’t think point guards make these other guys better, and have pointed out that posey, peja, butler, marks, ely, et al. have not played any better next to chris paul than they have elsewhere, which is why they only went as far as paul and west could take them last year.

Did you look at the bottom 5 teams in the West and their dreadful records and take into account that each Western team plays those horrid teams 1-2 more times that the East does? That’s a good 6-7 win difference to favor the West. The East had a better record than the West did last year, and the East made more dramatic changes int he 2nd half than the West did to make their teams even stronger.

East is tougher thant eh West overal these days, last year the East finally slightly pulled ahead with 3 legit contenders for the title to really the West’s Lakers one, and this year the moves the East has made should make them more clearcut favorites as the West again has some just horrid teams ont he bottom.

The Bulls trounced the Hornets both before and after the trade…..and we were hardly a great team by any stretch before the trade. I know they had injuries, etc…but losing that 58 point game says more than it all…

from his 16.4 2004-2005 to 17.5 in 2007-2008 is worthy of that.

Chandler’s been an injury guy….oft injured and a head case with Skiles hurt his last year here….

I would today rather have neither on our team and take Joakim Noah (probably the best of the bunch considering he can handle the ball, pass, defend, rebound, run the court like Chandler, and just has a high bball IQ). Okafor’s “offense” suddenly has become something since this trade happened, prior to that, Okafor and Offense equals block and the other team running back for an easy transition score…..I don’t buy that PR crap. I think this is a good trade and the fact that both are overpaid a bit for their production but one expires early is the clear cut winning thing….

Charlotte may be able to get Tyson for a lot less “AND” move on in perhaps 1 or more likely 2 years….

The NO Hornets are treading water a bit, though should if Okafor’s healthy stay around their 4th in the West level they would be if Tyson was healthy….

with statistics. There’s no way to tell how a guy would have performed without Chris Paul and with someone like Hinrich. There isn’t enough of a sample size without Paul, and measuring how they do with a crappy backup instead of a league average one, doesn’t tell the whole story.