The Small Forward bet!

I can't remember if I placed my bet on that one. I do remember wanting to bet on the small forward side. Well... uh... hehe... being it that the season has not started yet, I don't see any reason why those bets should be all locked up. After more consideration (which, uh, has nothing to do with MoT's injury) I think I would like to bet on the side of Griffin at power forward. Or, if I did not place a bet to begin with, I would like to keep it that way, as a non better
peace.

 

The bets off as far as I'm concerned.

 

The bet has been closed. For reference, it was about off-season acquisitions:

Top Small Forward vs Front Line w/merely status quo SF.

The bet was about what our off-season priorities would be....(1) focus on improving depth at the lacking frontline positions and ignore the SF position, or (2) target a top SF whether via draft or trade. This injury actually illustrates the "we need a frontline player" side of the bet.

Once the trade for Rice went down, the bet was finalized. We indeed targeted a top SF. Now we are paying for it big time.

The front-line people expected one of our front-line players to get injured if not two....starting with Dream and Cato. The SF people ignore front-line depth problems over prefering prototype players at all positions like some NBA fantasy game that downplays depth needs....and figure front-line backups can be found easily.

I championed the front-line side of the bet, because going with 3 guards was a strength of ours, while the front line depth was clearly a big weakness (especially longterm). Since 3 guards is our strength, a prototype SF (while indeed helpful) is not needed as much as shoring up the front line against injuries and for the future. It is a matter of most important needs.

*sigh*

Here's to Rice being a much better PF mismatch than Walt in the 3 guard lineup, and to K9 showing all those Fizer lovers who the best short PF is in the league.

<b>For all the Crisco's out there, you wanted the SF to eliminate 3-guards. Well, now we are right back where we began. We must play 3 guards with a depleted front line!</b> Forget the Jahidi White can replace Mo' business....Rudy is not going to field two defensive players at a time too often. He'll backup Cato and play with Collier when K9 rests. White won't play much, if any, side by side with Cato....unless you expect Rudy to play Knick ball against zones.