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Wizards vs. Hollinger
Published 10/4/2007 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... (tone: optimistic disagreement): "Unless they are devastated by injuries - worse than they were last season - the Bullets will win more than 33 games. A lot more. Book it." We Rite Good (tone: studied puzzlement): "While there are worse concerns for the Wiz these days than a columnist's predictions...still, yikes....Most of the We Rite Goode riters are closet Hollinger-heads; for our purposes, his words carry scary weight." (Followed by a mind-numbing but persuasive series of Antawn Jamison stats). Anyhow, that's all fine, but in debunking Professor Party Pooper, I chose to instead look at ...

Player Evaluation: Antawn Jamison
Published 8/12/2008 by Pradamaster at Bullets Forever: Front Page Posts
... , the one that gets me the most a year later (as well as at the time) was the odd claim that Antawn Jamison was declining as a basketball player.  Because Hollinger is Hollinger, the comment led an exhaustive study on the subject by We Rite Goode (who the blogosphere misses dearly), but it really wasn't necessary.  By any measure, Jamison was aging just fine.  It's just that because he is such an unorthodox player and plays with two other all-stars, he never gets the recognition or positive attention that he deserves.  This has been happening since the very ...