Here's a better glance at other teams than most of the crap out there. It's far from perfect and informed, but gives you a better idea than the BSPN and other terrible offseason grades.

basketball.realgm.com/blog/223086/Leroux...eam_Offseason_Review

It baffles me how/why writers keep ignoring Kyle Lowry. He goes hard on D, is a good distributor/leader, and can score a bit. Jose will be gone by the deadline and Raptors have an ok nucleus.

Oh yeah that was solid, thanks for the link DFS. I honestly don't know why anyone would sleep on Lowry. He's a stud, and plays really good defense. I'd love him as my PG if I was a team that didn't already have someone really good.

Jose is definitely getting moved, it's just a matter of when. They have a pretty decent young nucleus.

Totally agreed on Lowry. Huge pickup for Toronto. He quietly had a fantastic season and sort of broke out as a swiss army knife PG. He is a much better all around player than Lin at least IMO.

Speaking of Lin....thoughts on him in Houston with McHale? K-Mac is quietly good at developing players (I said it...he is a fine coach). I think Lin does well in Houston but mainly because that team is a total mess in purgatory. He will be the #1 scoring option by default.

WallyWorld wrote:
I like Lin, sort of by default because anyone Carmelo does NOT like is probably a good player. He is similar to Lowry in that he is too smart not to be a decent player. But is he good enough to look good on that team? And what the heck IS that team (Houston, that is)? Even over on TheDreamShake they have no clue. Why is Kevin Martin still on that team? Why do they have so much imbalance? Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt? Why Jadakiss fall back and quit putting out hits?

I hope the Rockets trade Royce or make room for him, I want him to get tick. Can the Wolves trade Derrick Williams for him yet?

Oh, I forgot to show my love for Asik. He is the reason I thought Noah really was available as a salary dump in order to Keep Asik. If you watch Asik play, the man is a monster on defense for stretches. I don't know if he can keep it up for 35 minutes a night, but if he does, he might be a top five big man defender along with Howard, KG, Chandler, Darko, and Duncan.