the clippers are a bad team; so i guess it can be argued that elton brand is garbage? IMO being on a garbage team doesent mean u suck if u put up good numbers. Elton Brands has good numbers but i guess he sucks cause he is on the clippers and his numbers are inflated..
Speaking of Brian Cardinal aka the custodian, I would like to see the rockets try to acquire him with the MLE or part of it. What this team needs is a PF and shooting. At 6-8 cardinal can play some minutes at the 4, but his greatest asset is his shooting(47% FG and 45% 3FG) and hustle. He would be great as the starting small forward and JJ could come off the bench or we could move JJ to the 2 and have Cat come off the bench.
Well to be honest it probably means that the thread is about dead and GARM is on to the next hot topic which is, by the looks of the first page, "what should we do about the PG situation. Should we trade steve. if so, what does realgm say that we could trade him for." Heyyyyyyyyyyy... this "next hot topic" sounds suspiciously like last week's hot topic. Coincidence? I don't think.
Sura Gives Hawks Triple Delight ATLANTA, April 12 (Ticker) -- Bob Sura recorded his third straight triple-double, leading the hot-shooting Atlanta Hawks to a 129-107 rout of the New Jersey Nets. Sura collected 22 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds to become the first player to post three consecutive triple-doubles since Grant Hill from April 11-14, 1997. The free agent-to-be grabbed six rebounds in the fourth quarter, but the final board did not come without controversy. Sura grabbed a long outlet pass with five seconds to play, then purposely missed a lefthanded layup before collecting the rebound. Jason Terry scored 30 points on 11-of-16 shooting for the Hawks, who made 17-of-25 3-pointers (68 percent). Atlanta led 65-42 at halftime behind 17 points from Stephen Jackson, who finished with 23. The Hawks never trailed. Sura never had a triple-double before Friday but trails only Jason Kidd, who leads the NBA with nine this season. Kidd scored 15 points for the Nets, who allowed a season high in points and lost for the third time in eight games. Wow! Bob Sura = Another Ricky Davis?
I saw the game. It isnt another Ricky Davis. The difference is Davis tried to score on his OWN goal but Sura tried to score on the other team's goal, just *short armed it* and thus got an OFFENSIVE rebound. It wasnt NEARLY as bad as the Davis incident. The game was a laugher anyway. The Nets were blow out and didnt care at all and the Hawks were into it. Sura looked pretty sheepish as it happened. No big deal.
I love workhorse players like Sura, Antonio Davis, Christie, Hinrich...do a little bit of everything. Nachbar, Spoon and Padgett make my list too
Sura didn't get his third triple double after all !!! http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-hawks-surastriple-double&prov=ap&type=lgns NBA takes away Sura's triple-double By PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer April 13, 2004 ATLANTA (AP) -- The NBA took away Bob Sura's third straight triple-double Tuesday, ruling he shouldn't get credit for one rebound because he intentionally missed a shot just before the buzzer. Sura thought he was the first NBA player since Grant Hill in 1997 to have three straight games with double figures in scoring, rebounding and assists. But the NBA said his tactics in Monday night's 129-107 win over New Jersey violated the rule that states, ``A field goal attempt is a player's attempt to shoot the ball into the basket for a field goal.'' Since Sura wasn't trying to make the shot, the NBA said, he shouldn't get credit for a field goal attempted. Therefore, there was no rebound. The journeyman guard had 22 points and 11 assists when he intentionally missed a layup just before the buzzer so he could get his 10th rebound. ``Actually, the ball slipped,'' Sura said, laughing and not making any pretense at being serious. ``All the guys on the team were screaming at me to do it. It was kind of a reaction thing. I just did it.'' His intentional miss rekindled memories of Ricky Davis' blatant attempt to pad his stats last season. Davis, then with Cleveland, was roundly criticized when he tried to finish off his first career triple-double by shooting at the wrong basket, missing and getting the rebound. Before it could happen, a Utah player wrapped his arms around Davis and was called for a foul. Davis was fined by the Cavaliers, and the league pointed out a rule barring players from trying to score for the other team. At least Sura was shooting at his own basket when he missed, but the NBA said it didn't matter. Sura picked up the first triple-double of his eight-year career on Friday, when he put up 12 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds at Chicago. The following night, he had 15 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds against Boston.
