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• Fine, Let's Talk About Carmelo and the Hornets (updated to reflect reality)

  Blog comment - 11 days ago

  I'd take the first deal but wouldn't trade Thornton. A starting line-up of Paul, Thornton, Melo, West and Okafor would probably be as solid offensively any team in the league not located in South Beach. Not enough of an expert to determine if it offers Denver enough incentives to do the deal. #

• Sources: Thornton not good

  Journal comment - 12 days ago

  Before you unleash your outrage:
  
  "6. Andre Iguodala(notes)
  
  So, here's where we get to the mea culpa.
  
  For every 30 players I put up, I write bios for about 33 or so for contention, decide on the placement and then rewrite the bios according to the placement. And right before I posted the 30-through-21 list, I chickened out regarding Evan Turner's(notes) placement (or, non-placement) on this list and substituted him into the lower rungs while rewriting his descriptive paragraph -- with the understanding that everyone else would move down a spot.
  
  The problem is that I didn't move everyone else down a spot. I just substituted Turner for Marcus Thornton(notes), and forgot to lose Thabo Sefolosha(notes) along the way. And, really, Thornton will be much, much better than Turner this season. Most likely better than a few of the guards ahead of Turner on the 30-through-21 list. It was insecurity that led to an unprofessional late switch -- the reason the post went up at five minutes after 10 a.m. ET on Thursday and not 10 -- and I was wrong to do it.
  
  On top of that? I originally had Andre Iguodala as a shooting guard, going back and forth as to whether or not he should be a two or a three, thinking that -- in Doug Collins' system -- Iggy will guard small forwards while Turner will be shoved to the side as a small forward on offense while A.I. handles the ball. But I shouldn't go there, and should rank Iguodala as an all-out wing. So this would be Iggy's place as a shooting guard, but he's not one, and you'll read about him on the small forward list.
  
  If anything else, I hope that these screwups give you a little insight as to how nutty I am about getting these rankings right. Even if they go way, way wrong." #

• Ranking the point guards, 10 through No. 1

  Lagniappe comment - 12 days ago

  The writer admitted he screwed up on the shooting guards list when he was shuffling around some of his choices, and Marcus Thornton got left out accidentally. #