Go try to find another NBA team that, with the game in the balance and a basket a must, that would ask its power forward to create a play. Can’t find one in my feeble mind because it’s always, always, always a guard or a small forward. Would Boston put the ball in Garnett’s hands? No way. San Antonio for Duncan? I don’t even think he was on the court when Roger Mason beat the Lakers last night. Utah and a healthy Boozer? Not a chance. Any team? Anyone? Nope.
And that’s the fatal flaw of this roster.
Maybe – maybe – they would run a screen and roll with Jose if he’s in the game but even then I doubt it.
There are simply no creators on that roster and the GM has to address that need.
It’s a McDonald’s campaign. I watched it on ACB.com and they have also created a Youtube channel. Ricky is 18 years old now and he’s starting to appear in commercials (he didn’t do it before, except for an ACB sponsor’s commercial). His parents and his club, Joventut, took care to keep him off that world while he was younger (in Spain, 18 is the age to be considered an adult). This advertisement reminds me of the classic one with Larry Bird and M. Jordan in the eighties [Pete's note: It's the earlynineties].
It’s not that I have something against this, although I don’t think McDonald’s is the best brand to represent. I mean, it’s not the healthiest food to eat as we all know, and with everybody from governments talking about fatter kids, about not abusing fast food … but, you know, that’s the way life is. Anyway, I think that many brands will fight for him now, and I suppose that he’ll get good money with advertisements which is fine (his contract with Joventut isn’t really high).
UPDATE 2: More Rubio videos at RickyLaCuela.com (“Ricky The School puts it in”).
Who knows how this fantasy season might end — I have been fortunate in catching opponents with key injuries — but I’m pretty happy with my current second-place position in the Give Me The Mock League. Thanks go to my players (and their training staffs):
Graham, in the afterglow of the Raptors’ second straight surprising victory, was matter-of-fact but extremely confident in describing his attributes as a defender against the physically dominating Magic centre [Dwight Howard] for the final 12 minutes.
“On the court I’m a giant, too,” Graham said. “I actually get bigger when I’m out there. He calls himself Superman. I call myself the Incredible Hulk.
It was a great, unexpected win against the Magic yesterday, with Our Roko playing the entire fourth quarter and winning the game with a floater. Here’s a Ro-quote, courtesy Doug Smith:
If I have one special shot, for sure that’s it, going left and try to throw this floater. Since I’ve been here I’ve been trying to find the most effective way to finish. I had to completely change my finishes from the way I did in Europe because the first 10 games I got maybe 15 shots blocked. I just came up with this little floater, I try to work on it a lot and it just came.
I don’t know if he just came up with this shot. From a DraftExpress article, looking at Roko’s performance at the Euroleague Final Four 2006:
Roko Leni proved once again that is very hard to keep him out of the lane, as most of his points came from slashing all the way to the basket or pulling up for a reliable floater.
Ah, it’s all just semantics, ainnit? Let’s just enjoy the beauty of his floater (see 5:36 of the video).
Our Roko — new haircut? — yanks it from Yao and delivers a behind-the-backer as the Raptors rock the ‘kets. (By the way: Should Jake Voskuhl’s arm bend that way?)
Yeah. Me neither. 
