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Wednesday’s Layup Drill
Published 1/23/2008 by Matt Watson at Detroit Bad Boys
This is what you call filler. Enjoy: Chris McCosky thinks the NBA is going to hell with all of these buyouts. Kelly Dywer thinks McCosky is nuts. Joe Dumars on the season so far: “I feel good about that right now, as far as results, wins and losses. But, I will say this, I am not handing out any A’s. We still have a long way to go.” Krista Jahnke, meanwhile, hands out five A’s. Do you know a little kid that looks like one of the Pistons? Put him to work. Ben Q. Rock of Third Quarter Collapse thinks I was a little harsh making fun of the Magic getting so fired up for the game ...

Wednesday Bullets
Published 1/23/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
A really, really, really good idea to fighting performance enhancing drugs: store everyone's urine and blood samples for thirty years. Test them when the state of the art testing technology has caught up with the latest cheating techniques. That wouldn't stop everyone immediately, but it is doable right now and would dissuade a ton of cheating, I'm sure. ESPN's David Thorpe on Mike Conley, Jr.: Mike Conley is stunningly quick, we all know that. He's also a better shooter than most 'experts' predicted, meaning he's not horrible at it, and his shot looks like it will be a strength pretty soon. But what makes him so special is his decision-making. He simply ...