Sports Thread #1 For 10/29/09: The Runthrough

Daniel Gibson runs into Chris Bosh, as the Cavs have run into an 0-2 start to their season (Photo from Associated Press)

The Cavaliers are really lacking the versatility that is needed for a championship team outside of course of LeBron James. It's only two games, but the Cavaliers haven't looked good for the last 7 of the 8 quarters they have played so far.

Mo Williams isn't strong enough of a distributor , Shaq and the rest of the bigs aren't versatile enough to truly execute pick and roll, and here is just no guy right now on that team besides James that you can picture taking over a game deep in the postseason.

I picked them to win the title this year, though when them making a move in the mid season though. Because there is no way with this current lineup and roster that they will win the title.

The most shocking statistic in the NBA last night for me.......The Warriors rookie Stephen Curry only took one three pointer last night in their 108-107 season opening loss to the Rockets last night. In fact, the Warriors only took 11 3's in the game, with none coming from Monta Ellis.

Usually when the media keeps repeating a thing as a collective whole, it is likely to have a chance at burning them back hard. That won't be the case for their proclamations of Dejuan Blair being the steal of the NBA Draft this year for the Spurs.

In fact, how Blair somehow fell to San Antonio in round two is a decision all the rest of the teams in the Association will definitely regret. The Spurs will not make it an automatic walk through for the Lakers to the finals at all this year. And if the Lakers slip up, Greg Popovich's crew will certainly be in position to win the West again.

It truly amazes me how people have once again broiled the MVP debate to just Kobe and LeBron again when Dwayne Wade just wallows around and starts his season off just as well as he left off last season.

In a year in WTA tennis where no one really played like a dominate number one at all, Serena Williams will end the year with the top ranking for only the second time in her career thanks to her victory over sister Venus while Dinara Safina "retiring" in her match with Jelena jankovic while .

Even more poor though is the fact that unless you have Tennis Channel or a good online stream, you have nowhere to watch what is technically the "World Championships of Women's Tennis." Sad.

Grahame Jones of LA Times creates the dumbest sentence of the week I have seen in sports in trying to find who is at fault for Jozy Altidore inexcusably coming late on match day for Hull City, and getting reprimanded by Phil Brown

Or perhaps its the fault of Major League Soccer and the U.S. national team, neither of which seems to demand the discipline required of players in Europe.

Jones of course didn't even bother to see whether Altidore was ever late when he played with the Red Bulls or with the national team on game day, but that isn't even the maximum point of how poor Jones' thinking was here.

How in the world is a league and a national team, or anybody/anything else for that matter, responsible for a player being late, for what seems to be the first time ever in career, to a game? How they are even considered by Jones is quite laughable. The apex of dumb journalism there is really interesting.

And Formula 1's season ender is for the first time in Abu Dhabi:


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