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Welcome to The Commute. It’s like Henry Abbott’s First Cup, only it happens later in the day. I also considered Happy Hour as a title, so please feel free to vote (write-in candidates acceptable) in the newly improved INTENSE DEBATE comments.
First on the agenda - before I talk more about the new and improved INTENSE DEBATE comments - what is The Commute? Well, The Commute is sort of like the Carnival (or Carnivore) of the Fantasy NBAs that I so seldom post around here. It’s also sort of like the Day Number posts in that I hope to do this on a daily basis, because honestly, why waste all this time I spend reading about fantasy basketball with just some dynamic shared links in the sidebar? I go through the day spending way too much time in Google Reader, and I also usually get at least one or two relevant links from my Google Alerts. So, in The Commute, I will collect those links and when I feel like it and/or have time, I will comment and/or blockquote from them.
Next up: New Comments! Yee HA! Got my invite to install Intense Debate and did so as promptly as possible. I’m happy to notice that people without Intense Debate accounts are able to comment as easily as ever, and now we can try to expand the community ever further into some sort of fantasy basketball fetishist social network. If you didn’t realize that was the entire point of this blog in the first place, you may quietly excuse yourself now and no one will think less of you.
So, you can now reply to comments instead of having to use @user, and you can rate comments so people can get an idea of how reliable the commentors on Give Me The Rock are. You can also use your Intense Debate profile on other blogs that support Intense Debate (which should be a lot once it becomes a default plugin for WordPress), and have the ability to aggregate all your commenting action in one location. And also in that profile, you can add, well, a profile! Add links to your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and lots of other things (I haven’t done this just yet, but I’ll get around to it). You can also easily pull in your Gravatar (even though that only really matters to the couple of people commenting who have gravatars).
Okay, so on to the actual fantasy basketball content!
Everyone’s Favorite: OJ Mayo has made the Hot Spot on Yahoo’s NBA Home page. Usually I don’t put much faith in the 3 players they display there, but Luol Deng and Ben Gordon have been heating up as well, so maybe they finally got a good formula. Or they finally got lucky.
Starting now from the left: NovaFantasySports.com provides their weekly Hot or Not. It’s kind of like the real Hot or Not except with more words and less pictures. They also agree that OJ Mayo is hot. So are Chris Duhon (though not as much as Jamal Crawford), Brandan Wright, Zach Randolph, and Nene Hilario.
Eric Karabell takes a look at the impact off-season moves are having. Because it’s one thing to look at them when they happen and make predictions. But Karabell looks at what is going on now with Andre Iguodala, Chris Kaman, Andrew Bogut, Mike Conley, and Chris Bosh.
I recently discovered newsday.com’s fantasy sports column written by Adam Ronis who is one of those guys who enters the Big Money fantasy competitions.
Speaking of guys who enter Big Money fantasy leagues, Evil E analyzes the team he drafted in a league with a $650 entry fee. Get inside the head.
Lester Legends recap for 11/11 - the top performers in Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks.
Stephen Kersey at Hoops Fantasy talks about the Knicks. An excerpt:
First of all, Jamal Crawford and Zach Randolph both appear to be safe bets. Crawford has been very consistent over the last few years and should put up similar stats this year. Don’t expect to see a big jump in his production because although he has a green light this year, he’s always had a green light. Randolph, on the other hand, should see his production rise — due partly to D’Antoni and partly to Eddy Curry being out of the way.
FantasyBasketball.com’s The Pulse blog talks about the explosion of Ronnie Brewer. Of course, we had him listed at 105 on the Player Rater, so theoretically he should have been drafted in just about every league in existence.
Brendan continues 2nd Round Reach’s Rotation Reports with the Central Divison in which he tries to offend an entire country who’s sole purpose is to offend nobody.
And finally, another guy (Adam Ronis being the first, Evil E being the second) who isn’t scared to throw his picture on his blog, CBSSports’ Sergio Gonzalez. This time he’s writing about Nick Young, who has been filling in ably for Gilbert Arenas. Sure, he’s no Gilbert Arenas, but then, Gilbert Arenas is no Black President. There is also a list of guys to look at picking up.
And there you have it. The Commute. Oh, here’s my exit.
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