Brand Roy

I am a big fan of Brandon Roy. He is a very unique player who went to college and who came to the league a finished product. He is smart, very versatile, knows how to play the game and makes his teammates better. He is not uber-athletic or a superstar scorer like Kobe or LeBron, but there is this quite efficiency about his game that is almost non-existent in the game today. Plus he is clutch like he showed today at Portland.

NBA is in full flow now and there was a great game between Portland and Houston today. It started off bad, but heated up towards the end. Roy was bottled up for the most part by Ron-Ron, but then he came alive in OT. He made Ron Artest look stupid on one drive to the hoop and then hit the last 2 shots for Portland including the long buzzer-beating 3 from Corvallis, Oregon. Between his 2 shots, Yao hit an amazing jumper that should have won the game for Houston if only T-Mac knew what he was doing when he was defending Roy during that last sequence. Great game and Roy was awesome.

T-Mac did have a great game. I have always liked Aaron Brooks since his Oregon days and he is contributing now for the Rockets. Dude is laser quick. Suns pick Rudy Fernandez had a great game for Portland as well. Good to see the new blood in the league. But the "old" blood ain't doing too bad either. Some huge numbers yesterday for superstars. Our own Amare dropped 49 on Indiana. Tony Parker went nuts with a 55-7-10 night and the King broke out with a 41-9-6 night despite some injury action early in the game. Good stuff going on in the league early.

AI got traded to Detroit for Chauncey Billups. AI had a great presser at Detroit with some funny lines about "practice". I like the trade a lot for Denver. They finally got a PG and someone who might fit with Melo. Speaking of Denver, the NFL thursday games started this week and Jay Cutler lit it up with 447 yards and 3 TDs. Brady Quinn wasn't too shabby either as he threw for 239 yds and 2 TDs. It was good to see the Sun Devil Ryan Torain rush for the Broncos. But the real question is, why is Denver struggling to beat teams like Cleveland? Is this the same team that looked like a Super Bowl contender at the start of the season? That whole AFC West looks shaky this year. Lets see what happens. Tennessee might actually go all the way the way things are right now.