Quality Shots: 10/30

by Mike Prada on Oct 30, 2007 2:59 PM EDT in Links

Because I'm tired discussing Kobe trade scenarios. By all means, everyone else can continue, but I see this fizzling once Mitch Kupchek asks for Andray Blatche, and Ernie Grunfeld says no.

I, for one, am very happy to see Ivan Carter discussing the other awful stretch of last season: the start. With all the continuity on this year's team, that simply can't happen again. This team has no excuses for not starting fast.
Jermaine O'Neal and Troy Murphy are doubtful for tomorrow's game.
A couple more Post updates: Oleksiy Pecherov is out for one to two weeks with an ankle sprain, and Gil is apparently "ready," but not the real Gil yet.
The only season preview you'll ever have to read. Actually, read this one too. This one, not so much.
Detroit Bad Boys places Gil third in the MVP race behind Kobe and Yao, which strikes me as kind of odd, but whatever.
This is nice...yet another blogger who's high on the Wizards.

I'll be back later. Drop any other relevant links you find in the comments section.

Update [2007-10-30 17:42:38 by Pradamaster]: More links for your pleasure.

Hey Ernie, don't trade Gil for Kobe, because Agent Bog will flip out.
Michael Wilbon, in his season preview, put us at fourth in the East and set to play Cleveland in the first round. Sounds about right.
Speaking of the Cavs, Sasha Pavlovic finally signed today, for three years at somewhere between 4-5 million per season.
Sports Business Daily listed Bullets Forever as the seventh-best NBA blog on the net, ahead of Golden State of Mind, Blazers Edge, and Yay! Sports. I'm honored, to be perfectly honest. If I were to rank this site, I don't know if I'd even go that far, so kudos to everyone who's made this place so great.
Old man Juwan Howard signed with Dallas today, where he'll play behind Dirk Nowitzki. Too bad this isn't 1996.
A synopsis of one of my favorite statistical toys, adjusted plus/minus, courtesy 82 Games.

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Did anyone else notice that the Wizards top the Cavs in the 1st and 2nd rounds?

by mamemimo on Oct 30, 2007 4:03 PM EDT reply actions

Wizards

Dude, stop copying notes!

by feartheturtle on Oct 30, 2007 6:03 PM EDT reply actions

Dude

On topic, please.

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Oct 30, 2007 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Cool

Congratulations on the Top-10 recognition. It's well deserved.

Third Quarter Collapse: An SBNation Blog for Orlando Magic Fans

by Evan Dunlap on Oct 30, 2007 6:08 PM EDT reply actions

Speaking of recognitions...

Check out these traffic rankings at truthlaidbear: http://truthlaidbear.com/ecotraffic.php

I bumped into this on Sunday, sifting through some metrics for the dissertation project. According to TTLB (which a LOT of scholars lean on for their data), Bulletsforever.com is the 25th most-visited blog on the entire web, with 183,822 visits per day!

Technorati ranks the site as the 37,356th biggest blog on the net. I don't know what sort of data you track on visits, but I'm guessing there's something fishy about the TTLB numbers. Still got a kick out of it though, thinking that close to 200K people were reading my lame attempts at humor in the comments section and all...

by sierradave on Oct 30, 2007 11:06 PM EDT reply actions

If that's true

Then the BF SiteMeter is only off by about 175,000 visits a day...roughly. If BF is getting that many hits a day...than no one can make fun of the Wizards fan base ever again.

And Dave, your attempts at humor are great. If I can get away with making jokes about the 2001-02 NBA season, I don't think any of our millions of readers (see the embellishment already?) will have a problem with your quick wit.

Bullets Forever: Your place for the very latest in Wizards news and PhD-level analysis.

by Jake Whitacre on Oct 30, 2007 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Also

Regarding Jermaine O'Neal and Murphy being out tomorrow...

I know it's a new season and all, but did anyone else read that and think, "oh crap, we're dead?" Let's see if the this year the Wiz can beat a shorthanded team. If they can fix that hole, which is quietly their biggest weakness, they're a 60-win team.

by sierradave on Oct 30, 2007 11:14 PM EDT reply actions

Kudos

You and Jake do a great job and deserve any recognition you get. This is usually the first site I visit every day (although that may say more about how hollow and empty my life is rather than what a great site BF is).

If yer logging nearly 200K hits per day, methinks you need to start charging more for ads. And if you get paid per hit, you guys are probably the wealthiest students on your respective campuses.

"Now, obviously individual production does not unilaterally equal better team production, but there's a high level of causation."

by Vanilla Gorilla on Oct 31, 2007 12:04 PM EDT reply actions

Troy Murphy out

Ah, my first experience with the conflicting emotions of a fantasy team owner. Happy that the Wizards get the Pacers short handed but discouraged that "my" player Murphy is out. I could have used those 6 points, 3 boards, and 6 fouls that Murphy was going to give me.
Can't wait for the game!

by hotplate on Oct 31, 2007 1:18 PM EDT reply actions