The Dish 2/10/12

Happy Friday to all. The All Star Game rosters have been announced and I’ll get to that later. But let’s start with this…

#Linsanity

Can we cool on this kid? Has he had 3 great performances? Yes, has he breathed life into the New York Knicks? Yes. Does he have talent? Again, Yes. But let’s see how he does tonight (vs the Lakers) and in back to back or 3 games in 4 nights. If he can stay constant and score 15 points and drop 7 assists, i will say yes he deserves the hype or at least credit that he isn’t anything more than a good backup PG. The thing I love about his game is how he attacks the rim. Even if he doesn’t shoot the ball when going to the rim, he dishes it off to the open guy.

If he can be the drive and kick PG when Melo and Amare comeback the Knicks may have found their PG for this team. But again let’s wait to see how he does when he gets worn down from the schedule

Now let’s go over the All Star game rosters. I love All Star weekend. I think the NBA All Star game is by far the best All Star game out there.
EAST
Starters
Derrick Rose- Chicago
Dwayne Wade- Miami
LeBron James- Miami
Carmelo Anthony- New York
Dwight Howard- Orlando

Reserves
Chris Bosh- Miami
Luol Deng- Chicago
Andre Iguodala- Philadephia
Joe Johnson- Atlanta
Paul Pierce- Boston
Deron Williams- New Jersey
Roy Hibbert- Indiana

My first thoughts why Chris Bosh? People have issues with Hibbert, at least Hibbert is an impact player on his team. I would also argue Melo doesn’t belong but the fans voted him in (that’s another thing that bothers me, I hate fan votes for anything). I know subtracting Bosh for Rondo would be weird to have 3 PG’s on the rosters but Rondo deserves it over Bosh in every way. Plus Rondo means more to his team than Bosh does.

WEST
Starters
Chris Paul- LA Clippers
Kobe Bryant- LA Lakers
Kevin Durant- Oklahoma City
Blake Griffin- LA Clippers
Andrew Bynum- LA Lakers

Reserves
Kevin Love- Minnesota
Steve Nash- Phoenix
Russell Westbrook- Oklahoma City
Marc Gasol- Memphis
Tony Parker- San Antonio
Dirk Nowitzki- Dallas
LaMarcus Aldridge- Portland

First off, when will people understand Kevin Love is the best PF in the NBA. For my readers you saw that I already wrote about this. Bill Simmons is starting to think the same thing… I think he just may be a Dish reader. Kevin Love isn’t flashy, Blake is, that’s the only reason why people would possibly take Blake over Love.  Finally Tim Duncan’s corpse is off the AS game. He should have been last year and possibly the year before but it’s about time.  It’s Dirk’s time now to bow out. Heck he even agrees. This week he said he didn’t deserve it, which he doesn’t. Utah’s Paul Millsap deserves it over him.

The Dish’s Top 10

10.  Orlando Magic- 16-10
As good as Dwight Howard is playing, I just don’t think the rest of his team is any good. Other than Jason Richardson, they don’t have a decent starter on the team.

9. Denver Nuggets- 15-12
They have fallen back to earth. With an impending signing of Wilson Chandler could bolster this team back to their previous level

8. Atlanta Hawks- 17-9
Their still winning  but I don’t know about their bigs depth without Horford. And if any of their guards get injured they will hurt big time

7. Los Angeles Lakers- 15-11
Their finally out of the 10 spot. The Boston win was huge, it showed Pau could be a factor again.

6. San Antonio Spurs- 18-9
With Ginobli coming back against the Nets, Are the Spurs just having a similar year to last year. Good Regular season team, not legit playoff contenders?

5. Philadelphia 76ers 18-8
Iggy is an All Star and he has played like one all year. But let’s not forget this team’s depth.

4. Indiana Pacers- 17-8
With Roy Hibbert being named an AS this team might get some national attention.

3. Oklahoma City 20-6
I’m not convinced they can win a playoff series if the opposing team slows the game down and pounds on their bigs.

2. Miami Heat- 19-7
Question is are they ready for everyone’s best shot? The heat are good, but a very flawed team.

1. Chicago Bulls- 22-6
Sporting the league’s best record again this year is showing Chicago is for real.

Why I left the Clippers out. Well with the Chauncey Billups injury they will start losing games. They didn’t have a legit SG before Billups but he was crafty enough to be efficient for them. Now I think they will struggle.

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