*** Gadgets Fantasy Basketball League B Season 2 Thread ***

[mazdamazda]

GA SleepersJ.O'neal
T. Parker
B. Diaw
M. Ginobili
J. Terry
S. Battier
A. Walker
M. Finley
N. Mohammed
V. Radmonivic
J. Rose
R. Gomes
R. Gay

Picks that I like: Terry, Battier, Gay

Kinda ok picks: Diaw, Nazr, Rose, Gomes

Picked too HIGH: J. O'Neal, Parker, Ginobilli, Walker, Finley, Radmanovic

Bro, sorry to tell you this but you'll have a hard time even trying to get past the #10 spot in your league. Your too high picks (Jermaine & co) opened up a new can of worms by letting other GMs get better picks.

[ILuvDetailing]

bakit wala nag analyze ng team ko ...

The Good:
Very strong foundation with King James, Jason Kidd and Lamar Odom. Strong support players in Carlos Boozer, Andre Igoudala, Corey Magette and Hedo Turkoglu

The Bad:
Lacks C and PG depth, a few good trades should be in the offing to address this. Injury prone players in Corey Maggette and Kenyon Martin may wreak havoc on your team if they miss extended time due to injury.

Verdict:
A strong team, just needs some tweaking to go deep into the playoffs.

[theveed]

PG and C - the staple of a successful H2H team...

[BoEinG_747]

thanks .....commish ILD and sir david

[Gumusut_Amige]

Picks that I like: Terry, Battier, Gay

Kinda ok picks: Diaw, Nazr, Rose, Gomes

Picked too HIGH: J. O'Neal, Parker, Ginobilli, Walker, Finley, Radmanovic

Bro, sorry to tell you this but you'll have a hard time even trying to get past the #10 spot in your league. Your too high picks (Jermaine & co) opened up a new can of worms by letting other GMs get better picks.

OK.OK.OK... how about giving insights for me to be at the top 3 at least...

[baiskee]

OK.OK.OK... how about giving insights for me to be at the top 3 at least...

trade. :lol:

[baiskee]

commish, may balita ah, naaksidente daw si brand...putol yung dalawang kamay....










pero don't worry, lalaro pa rin daw.

[Isuzoom]

Nakow!!! napakasamang balita yan!!!

[ILuvDetailing]

OK.OK.OK... how about giving insights for me to be at the top 3 at least...

Practice practice practice, and read stuff about fantasy basketball...

[ILuvDetailing]

hayuf sa hirit bai :evillaugh

[wren]

Gerald Wallace OK after crash, doctors say
Bobcats star lost control of SUV driving back to Charlotte home

Matt Sayles / AP
Chapel Hill, NC - Gerald Wallace fractured a rib and both of his knees and hurt his shoulder in a car crash early Thursday, his doctor said.

The 28 year old basketball star will require surgeries but expected to make a complete recovery, said Dr. Paul Gilbert, an orthopedic surgeon at Charlotte General Hospital. He said, however, that Wallace would miss the 2006 basketball season due to his injuries.

Wallace, a key player for the Bobcats, was driving a 2006 Cadillac Escalade about 1 a.m. when he crashed into a mailbox on a brick base and flipped over, Charlotte's police Lt. Greg Sisneros said. Wallace, who was awake and talking immediately after the crash in Raleigh Point, was with fellow NBA stars Elton Brand, Chris Bosh and Mike Bibby in the vehicle headed for his Chapel Hill home from a benefit gala when the crash occurred, Sisneros said. The passengers also sustained major injuries and may also miss the 2006 season.

When asked if blood was taken for an alcohol test, Gilbert said, “I’m sure blood samples were taken but I don’t have a comment on that.”

“He’s pretty uncomfortable and resting. He just wants to let everyone know he’s going to be OK,” Gilbert said.

sorry to be the bearer of bad news. anybody affected by it?

[ILuvDetailing]

The 28 year old basketball star will require surgeries but expected to make a complete recovery, said Dr. Paul Gilbert, an orthopedic surgeon at Charlotte General Hospital. He said, however, that Wallace would miss the 2006 basketball season due to his injuries.

Wallace, a key player for the Bobcats, was driving a 2006 Cadillac Escalade about 1 a.m. when he crashed into a mailbox on a brick base and flipped over, Charlotte's police Lt. Greg Sisneros said. Wallace, who was awake and talking immediately after the crash in Raleigh Point, was with fellow NBA stars Elton Brand, Chris Bosh and Mike Bibby in the vehicle headed for his Chapel Hill home from a benefit gala when the crash occurred, Sisneros said. The passengers also sustained major injuries and may also miss the 2006 season.

Hoy 24 years old lang si Gerald Wallace :evillaugh

Nice try

[wren]

:bwahaha:

buking! i got you going for a minute there though, huh? :bwahaha:

[ILuvDetailing]

langya ka, binuksan ko kaagad yung ESPN

[baiskee]

nyahaha...sayang, ok na sana...nabuko lang sa edad.

[empy]

but on a serious note, some bad news for whoever's got Speedy Claxton

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar..._in_left_hand/

[baiskee]

nakow, ILD....player mo ulit.

[Eismann]

Good news naman
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Hill: I feel great now (TODAYHERE WE GO, AGAIN!)
BY JOHN DENTON
FLORIDA
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:23 am
Cautiously optimistic. Grant Hill has spent the summer in rehabilitation and for the first time in awhile, is playing without any pain. AP file

ORLANDO - He could have been long gone by now, off collecting retirement checks and working on his second career as a real estate mogul or possibly even the owner of an NBA franchise.

But instead Grant Hill has spent yet another summer tucked away in a gymnasium, desperately clinging to the hope that for once during his time with the Orlando Magic, his body will not fail him.

This summer hasn't been much different for the fallen superstar small forward -- again he's been forced to rehabilitate from injury and wonder if he'll ever be able to recapture the glory and brilliance that used to seemingly ooze from his every pore.

But this summer is different. For the first time in a long time, Hill isn't hobbled with pain or haunted with doubt. A season after he was frustratingly in and out of the lineup again for the Magic because of painful tears in his lower abdomen, Hill committed himself to working most of the summer with famed physiotherapist Alex McKechnie.

For 10 weeks this summer, Hill left his family behind and traveled from Orlando to Vancouver, British Columbia, to work with McKechnie on a mission to relieve the pain that sometimes made breathing a problem.

McKechnie has worked with some of the most famous athletes in all of sports, from Shaquille O'Neal to Steve Nash to Terrell Owens and Matt Leinart. And now that's he's back on the court, blowing by defenders and dunking again, Hill is a believer that he will head into this NBA season healthy.

"I've fought through a lot just to get back to this point and I think that kind of shows how much I love to play the game," Hill said. "I feel great now, and I want to stay healthy for an entire season. I want to play as long as I can stay healthy. But if anything, I've learned that you take it one day at a time."

Six surgeries and seven seasons cut short by injury have taught Hill lessons about not getting too far ahead of himself. The Magic open training camp Oct. 3 at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, and Hill has been feverishly getting ready by playing pick-up ball against the likes of Vince Carter and some of his Magic teammates for the past month. As excited as Hill is to return to the court, it's the Magic who are eager to see what Hill, who soon will turn 34, can add to one of the league's rising teams.

"He's back in the groove out there and he really looks good," said Magic general manager Otis Smith, who has kept a close eye on the team's informal workouts from his office above the Magic's practice court. "The core strengthening exercises he's done have helped him a lot. He's done some rehab on his ankle and it's looking good, too. I've told him that we're going to try and manage him, but most of all is we're just going to let him go and play."

Magic fans burned repeatedly by promises that Hill was finally healthy can probably recite the gory numbers when it comes to the six-time all-star's time on the sidelines. He's played in just 135 of a possible 492 games, meaning he's been in a cast or a suit for a staggering 70.5 percent of the games.

That's a far cry from what was expected when Hill and Tracy McGrady signed matching seven-year, $92.88 million contracts with the Magic back in 2000. Together, the two stars were expected to make Orlando a powerhouse in the Eastern Conference. But Hill repeatedly went down -- first with the broken left ankle and then the sports hernia -- and McGrady demanded a trade to the Houston Rockets.

Hill's injuries took what seemed to be a promising career on its way to the Hall of Fame and left it in tatters. That he is still here after all the trauma, especially the 2003 Staph infection that almost killed him, is a testament to how determined he is to salvage his basketball life.

"It was really tough going through another season of not playing at the end of the year," Hill said. "But I made up my mind that as soon as the season ended, I was going to go hard and get myself back. But I'm so anxious to mix it up with the guys and get back out there again."

Even though Hill's latest injury was a sports hernia, everything relates back to that troublesome left ankle when it concerns Hill's body.

Doctors now say Hill tore muscles and the lining of the lower abdomen because he was compensating on an ankle that has had more work done on it than Kenny Rogers' face. Because the ankle joint was basically fused together -- after three surgeries failed to repair the crack along the inside of the ankle with screws and metal plates -- Hill's gait changed dramatically. And that ultimately led to the problem that limited him to just 21 games last season.

"The medical term is 'pubalgia,' which basically means that was that there was a lot of stuff going on there," Hill said with a tortured laugh. "There was no clear-cut thing of why it happened. The doctors felt it was kind of like when you hurt your knee and you start limping, then your back hurts. It was the same sort of thing happening to me with the ankle."

Enter McKechnie, the Canadian physiotherapist who has grown synonymous with abdominal strengthening for basketball players just as Dr. James Andrews is with anterior cruciate ligament knee surgeries for football players and Dr. Frank Jobe with "Tommy John" ligament replacement surgery for baseball players.

McKechnie, who worked with the Los Angeles Lakers, Vancouver Canucks and the Canadian World Cup soccer team, designed a variety of workouts for Hill that has made his midsection stronger. Hill, who was still in pain as late as May, uses an elaborate web of rubber bands to exercise the muscles -- and the drills have caused more than a few double takes from his teammates.

"Guys are looking at me crazy like, 'Man, what are you doing?' " Hill said. "I've got all of these rubber bands going on and these weird drills that I'm sure people think are out there.

"It basically came down to me learning how to find 'neutral.' It's about starting off in a neutral position and kind of re-learning the various movement patterns so that I'm not sharing any muscles, especially the ones in the groin and stomach area."

Head coach Brian Hill can hardly wait to have a healthy Grant Hill back at his disposal because of the versatility he offers. Hill likely will spend time at small forward and both guard slots this season. But mainly, he just wants to play and stay healthy.

"So far, it's been great because I've been able to play every day and not have any problems whatsoever," he said. "We've made some good strides in the abdomen and ankle and I'm feeling good."


Grant's mission: Stay healthy
Here is a look at how injuries have ruined Grant Hill's first six years with the Orlando Magic. Year, Games, PPG., Injury 2000-01, 4, 13.8, Required season-ending ankle surgery 2001-02, 14, 16.8, Required season-ending ankle surgery 22002-03, 29, 14.5, Surgery on ankle, had staph infection 2003-04, 0, DNP, Sat out season to rehabilitate ankle 2004-05, 67, 19.7, Shin bruise, ankle soreness ended season 2005-06, 21, 15.1, In and out of lineup due to sports hernia -- John Denton, FLORIDA TODAY

[ILuvDetailing]

nabasa ko na yan bai, out 5-6 weeks, season starts in around 5 weeks, he should be healthy just in time for the season opener. :pope:

WE ARE NOW LIVE!!! feel free to send trade propos to your fellow GMs, enjoy playing and have fun.

Side Note:
Boeing_747 reserves the right to Bonzi Wells until he relinquishes it, as we all know Bonzi Wells is a free agent and is talking to the Charlotte Bobcats, there is no news to where he will sign yet. I will add Bonzi Wells to Boeing's lineup once he signs with a team and becomes available, if things go sour and Bonzi sits out this NBA season Boeing will be free to add one FA to his lineup without affecting his "Moves" count.

Thank you very much

[mantoy]

so commish, who do you think are the teams to beat just by looking at the lineups?