PRESEASON ARRIVES!!!

Finally! At long last! It's here! The NBA preseason is underway which means the JBL draft can't be far behind! OH boy am I ever excited. I can barely contain myself. In the 3 days since the NBA preseason games began I have already spent more time analyzing those boxscores than I spent all year on boxscores in the baseball pool (yes, that would explain my 12th place basement finish). Now I know how Pearl felt in the JBL and how the other baseball owners must have viewed me. I didn't make any trades. I hardly ever signed or dropped players. MLB players just died on my team. Oh well. Congrats to Crikker for winning the league. Apparently it was his 1st Fantasy league win. Well done then, well done.

Anyways, back on topic. NBA preseason rocks. What would John Wall do? Who would PHX start? What kind of line-up would Cleveland play? What can we learn from one pre-season game. The simple answer is not much - but maybe lots.

In Washington we learned Wall is the real deal. We learned that Coach likes to play a 3 guard set with Wall, Arenas, and Hinrich. We learned that Yi Jianlin is the only real big man on the bench. We learned that McGee's JBL Auction value just tripled.

Some others jumped onto the Fantasy scene in Cleveland. Jamario Moon, Daniel Gibson (Boobie!), and Ramon Sessions all became fantasy relevant again.

DeMarcus Cousins made his mark in Sacramento against a small PHX team posting a monstrous double double.

Brook Lopez showed he might be the 2nd best center in the Eastern Conference.

Michael Beasley is trying to prove he can be fantasy relevant again while Darko tries to make believers out of potential JBL suitors.

Lebron and Bosh showed they can play together while Wade's hamstring strain could affect his auction value. Also, it's very likely that all of Miami's bench will be drafted simply because of the number of blowouts this team will/should have this coming season. Might as well get Eddie House on the cheat sheet.

The Bucks proved that they may have too much talent to make any of their players super Fantasy studs. On any given night - they could have 6-7 guys lead that team in scoring. Yes, I am aware that Jennings and Bogut are their biggest stars - but look at tonight - Jennings is absolute garbage and they do just fine. The Bucks are not fantasy friendly.

Kyle Korver proved that he can shoot. And he will go for more than $1 dollar on draft night.

Yao played 12 minutes and will be on a strict time limit this season. That news crushes his fantasy value. The question remains - will Bangkok draft him still? And for how much?

Charlotte scored 72 points tonight. That's about right.

Blake Griffin was very quiet tonight. Was that by design? Or was that because of the now 20 pounds heavier L-Train (17 & 7) defending him? And Rudy Fernandez did his best job to peak the interest of all the other teams who were thinking about inquiring about his services that still wondered if he had "it". And Wes Matthews (for the moment) quieted all those people (myself included) who thought the Blazers severely overpaid for his services.

Robin Lopez interests me. He's the only true big man in PHX and could be a cheap source of rebounds. Turkoglu looked like the Toronto version. Jason Thompson reminded the SAC coaches he was still on the team. Tyreke gave Timmy a boner. I know it.

Still waiting for those final few drops to come in...
Who will get punted?
Just 10 days until the final cuts are made....