Blogging + Ranking Things in Lists = Awesomness.

The Fourth Edition of the Blogger MVP/ROY Rankings is being hosted by RaptorsHQ.com   They are a great blog, so make sure to check them out.  You should know the drill with the rankings and all the business by now, so quit wasting your time with my needless chatter and check them out!  As usual, it's another great addition with some hilarious comments and a few surprising results.  If you want to check out how I voted and my super witty and extremely humorous stupid un-funny comments, just scroll down a little ways.  Feel free to mock and ridicule my voting as you see fit.


EDITION 1 (HoopsAddict)
EDITION 2 (Upside And Motor)
EDITION 3 (The Dream Shake)

After careful consideration, I wasn't going to inundate you with my boring rankings and comments decided to post my rankings and comments for my 10 MVP's and 5 Rookies of the Year below:

MVP:

(10 = 1, 9 = 2, 8 = 3 and so on)

10.  Chris Bosh:  The record of his team is severely hampering his placement on this list.

9.  Kobe Bryant:  It’s not like he doesn’t have help, hence the low ranking.  Plus, I don’t not not like him.

8.  Tim Duncan:  Would people be offended if I suggested his renewed vigor and longevity is due to steroids?  Or, I guess maybe he really is just that good…

7.  Paul Pierce:  Still the leader of the best team EVER in the league.

6. Brandon Roy:  I traded him from my fantasy team because I am trying to model it after the Timberwolves.

5.  Dirk Nowitzki:  He’s so quietly in fourth place for points per game average that I almost forget he still played in the NBA.

4.  Dwight Howard:  He should have to wear a sign around his neck at all times that says: “DANGER: Do not come within 25 feet.”

3.  D-Wade:  So I ran into him at the grocery store the other day and I was like “Yo D-Wizzzzade, man you rock!  You. Da. Man!  Fo real home slice gimme some skin, high fiver down low baaaaa-by.”  He looked at me quizzically, eventually nodded, and then walked away.  That was so chill.

2.  Chris Paul:  The most negative thing I can think to say about him is that he recently snapped his all-time NBA record for consecutive games with a steal.  Yeah, he’s good.

1.  LeBron James:  This is unanimous, right?  Anyone that doesn’t put him #1 obviously has some kind of demento bone to pick, or an inferiority complex.

ROY:

(5 = 1, 4 = 2 and so on)

5. Brook Lopez:  How funny is it that A) The Timberwolves could really use this guy and B) He is the one player that a lot of us Wolves fans absolutely did NOT want us to draft last year.  We obviously know nothing.

4. DJ Augustine:  What’s been happening lately?  Is it the Rookie Wall, or a small slump?  I’d guess a “slump,” being that he has proven he can play with the big boys.

3.  Russell Westbrook:  Proving to everyone why he was drafted number four overall.  Who knew he could play PG as well as he has been.  Obviously not Kevin McHale.

2. OJ Mayo:  Stock falls slightly after four straight losses.  Still, he’s the rookie leader in points per game, and there is still a chance he could be in the running for the ROY award when all is said and done.

1. Derrick Rose:  Running away with the ROY trophy.

Invitation to the Mailbag Party...

Time for the next TWolvesblog Open Mailbag for anyone that is interested in sending any questions and/or thoughts, and I'll anwer them as soon as I get a sufficient amount of submissions. Don't be afraid to send stuff in (I don't want to have to make stuff up!) Heck, I promise that I'll even answer them all... I'm like an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Well my friends... it's no longer Cucumber Season.  The NBA season is in full swing and we're appoximately 35% or so done.  There are almost limitless talking points for our awesome and exciting, uptempo, fan-favorite team, so there's no excuse for not sending SOMETHING in.  (I guess if your apathy level has reached an all-time high, and you just don't have the energy to email me, that's understandable too.)  I mean, we finally fired DimWittman, The Iron Ranger Kevin McFale is now our coach, our roster is a perpetual conundrum, who plays and how much?  OJ Mayo is tearing up the league while KLove is on his way to "Colossal Bust" status, The Celtics are possibly the best team EVER and the Wolves have a 13 game losing streak.  The talking points are endless...  The more you send me, the better the mailbag...

P.S.  If all else fails, just email me some funny Haiku's.

P.S.S.  Or you can just email me and tell me that I suck.  It's all good.

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I just wanted to say Happy Holidays everyone! (and Merry Christmas if that's your thing!)

Have a happy time off with your families, and travel SAFE if you have to drive. Those are the most important things. Hopefully the Wolves can get a win soon, somehow (before 2009 at least!)

Over in the TWolvesBlog forums, we've been having waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much some fun with Haiku's. Check them out in this forum thread, or simply click "Read More" to catch them in this article after the break...

UPDATE:  Have since added more awesomely hilarious Haiku's...

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Blogging + Ranking Things in Lists = Awesomness.

The Third Edition (aka Quarter Season) of the Blogger MVP/ROY Rankings is being hosted by The Dream Shake.  They rock.  Check out their website.  We play them this Saturday and YAO is probably shaking with feverish anticipation at the thoughts of taking on the front line of Jefferson, Love, Smith, and Booth... He will probably have at least 73 rebounds.  Anyways, I digress.

EDITION 1
EDITION 2

After careful consideration, I wasn't going to inundate you with my boring rankings and comments decided to post my rankings and comments for my 10 MVP's and 5 Rookies of the Year below:

MVP:
(10 = 1, 9 = 2, 8 = 3 and so on)

10. Devin Harris:  The Nets wouldn’t trade him for Jason Kidd and twenty #1 draft picks.

9.  Brandon Roy:  I traded him in my Western Conference Only Auction Keeper Fantasy Basketball League.  Why did I do that you ask?  I don’t know.

8.  Chauncey Billups:  He has intangibles and stuff like that.  Oh yeah, and he makes the Nuggets win.

7.  Kobe Bryant:  Grumble grumble grumble as much as I’d love to leave him off the list entirely grumble grumble…

6.  Tim Duncan:  What did they do with Greg Popovich?  And why is some bum off the street coaching their team?

5.  Paul Pierce:  Twenty-One and Two!!!!11!!1!  Where is the love?!?!

4.  Dwight Howard:  Some players get “in the zone.”  Howard enters BEASTMODE and destroys everything in his path.

3.  D-Wade:  I was walking down a dimly lit back alley last weekend and I saw some thug jump Wade.  He slashed him with a blade and then ran off.  I could see the wound and there was no blood.  He was bleeding liquid titanium.

2.  Chris Paul:  I’d say “better luck next year”, but LeBron might win the next 12 MVP Awards in a row.

1.  LeBron James: Ok, I finally had to switch it up.  Chris Paul didn’t do anything to “deserve” getting demoted, but LBJ is just too good.  Imagine in a few years when he enters his prime… will anyone ever be able to guard him, or will he just go out and score 50 points per game?  The deciding factor was that the Cavs currently have the second best record in the league, while the Hornets initially struggled out of the gate.

ROY:
(5 = 1, 4 = 2 and so on)

5. Michael Beasley:  Almost took him off the rankings completely, but I didn’t want to hurt his fragile psyche.  I don’t want to be the one responsible for sending him off the deep end.

4. DJ Augustine:  Despite the fact that he’s five-foot nothing, he’s showing everyone what he can do out on the court.  His production has skyrocketed with the increased minutes of late.  

3.  Kevin Love:  Double-Double MACHINE.  You can’t stop him; you can only hope to contain him.

2. OJ Mayo:  He gets “Chris Paul’d” this week because Derrick Rose is just that good.

1. Derrick Rose – Has exceeded my pre-season expectations in every imaginable way.  And this is coming from a person that would have drafted him #1 overall dating back to the beginning of the last NCAA season.

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As you all know, our beloved Randy Wittman was replaced on the bench by his former boss Kevin McHale this week.  Since the replacement two games have passed.  While the Wolves managed to buck last weekend's trend of getting killed by 20+, the team continued a popular trend of building a nice lead only to blow it in the second half.

A few notes on the Wittman firing.  I don't think there's many fans that are going to miss Randy Wittman.  I also don't think any fans will miss Kevin McHale in the front office (assuming his front office days and duties are truly over).  It may be partial justice that he is sleeping in the bed he has made, but to me it seems like a complete acknowledgement by ownership that the 2008-2009 season is a lame-duck one, which is especially frustrating for a franchise that has been rebuilding for three years.  The major kicker: the beginning of next season will basically be another "year 1" in a perpetual string of rebuilding.

Although I will admit the team seems to show more enthusiasm over the past two games, I am interested to see if the players keep going hard for their new coach over the next 10 games.  One major issue this team can't get around, no matter who is coaching, is that no one can be consistently relied upon to hit an outside jump shot, especially with Mike Miller injured.  Nearly every position is developing or otherwise uncertain, and the only "certainty" we have, Al Jefferson, is never certain which position he's going to play on any given night.

Some characteristics of the new regime (if one can call a staff that's completely identical minus Randy Wittman a "new" regime) that drive me nuts, and I'm sure I'm not alone, are (i) the Bondesque License to Shoot for McCants, and (ii) the curious increase in Kevin Ollie's minutes.  The one hope I have for McHale that I've seen the past two games is using those fouls in a more violent manner.  McHale played for a very physical Boston team and I hope he instills that physicality in this poor squad.

Basically, although there's a "new" coach, nothing is really different.  The coach is the same guy that put this squad together, and I don't think this team is on the way to making any believers out of the fans.  I'm still only going to Target Center once this season to see LeBron, and I don't think that's going to change.  If you can't tell, I guess there's just not really much new to say that wasn't said last week, unless you're a Kevin Ollie fan.