I even highlighted the relevant bits for you. They should be self-explanatory.
I know you don’t care what the mainstream media says about you, but maybe you should. I kind of do. But then, I’m 5′9″ in good shoes and can’t shoot. So it’s not on me.
(P.S. That paragraph doesn’t even make sense. If it’s a team game, name one “crapload” that makes it to June. Yeah, I thought so.)
Enjoys annoying others
The Cavs, in 2007?
Eeeeeeeaast.
Healthy, the Hornets are a much stronger team than that one. They’ve essentially got the same team as last year. It wasn’t a pile of crap. They’re 19-5 in games this year where they actually played their starting lineup. It’s more that they’re specifically put together and fail miserably when the pieces aren’t there. (And have a coach who isn’t skilled at adapting.)
But I do disagree with the David West statement. D West is solid and can create his own shot. CP doesn’t make him hit 17 foot jumpers smoother than most bigs in the league.
No, but a passer and penetrator like Paul allows West to shoot more of those 17-footers than any other guard would.
He doesn’t make him better. He allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, more often.
All of which is taking away from my point, which is that Chris Paul (for all his popularity) is criminally unheralded and underrated. Let’s not let the relative values of Julian Wright or Peja Stojakovic distort that.
… and that Paul is good enough to lead this team to the Finals.
Well, and I agree. Having him changes everything. How about “no crapload makes it to June OUT OF THE WEST”? Better?
Depending on your definition of “crapload”, the Spurs might fall into that.
Just saying…
No doubt we have both said that this season. Their supporting cast gets less impressive each year. They have a bigger Three than the Hornets do. Different dynamic.
I know a guy who runs a casino in the Cayman Islands. You can bet there on the over under of Hornets games Kelly Dwyer has actually watched in the last two years. The line is at six. Go place a bet now at http://www.thanksfortheCPlove-butfuckKDforhistotalfailuretoaccuratelyassessthehornets.ky.
Classy.
I wouldn’t really challenge me on the whole “watching games” thing.
I think you’d be better off challenging Jeff Bower on the whole “spending his entire MLE on a guy with a 10.9 PER” thing, however.
Who says we didn’t?
I respect what Kelly is saying regarding CP. Yes, he deserves lots of credit for what he’s doing. My problem is the flip-flop on calling a team “a crapload” when early in the year he said: “the New Orleans Hornets look like a team that could waltz to the Western Conference finals in its sleep…Pay attention.” Sure, that was during the preseason, and the Hornets have disappointed a bit this year, but it’s really hard to see how someone could legitimately believe a contender could so soon be crappy, even though they’ve been beset by injuries all year and are still on pace for 50 wins.
Bottom line, I think Kelly was either using hyperbole or just being lazy and not paying attention to what he was writing, because it sounded snarky or funny to him at the time. But as I’m sure Mr. Dwyer knows, any person who puts his voice in the public stream makes that voice open for criticism. Kelly took issue with my above comment in his response above. That’s his right. I’m sure plenty of people have slammed what I’ve written here. So be it. But if I make a mistake, I’ll admit it. Otherwise, I’ll keep unabashedly hyping the Hornets here. And that’s my right too.
All I know is I love crappy ‘Sual Butler and crappy Peja and the rest of this crappy team.
GAME UPDATE: after Hornets collapse down the stretch, Phoenix Butler makes a desperation 3 to send it to OT, where D-West proceeds to go nova, and Peja closes the game with 2 clutch free throws. Thank you, and good night.
If beating the Heat on the road is crappy, then the Hornets are crappy.