A Whole Lotta Nothing

well, nothing happened vis-a-vis bibby and the cavs, which is not too much of a surprise, as it was somewhat of a longshot from all i had read and heard in the last few days. the best news to me was that we didn't get the terrible marcus banks from phoenix. he sucks and would be of no help to the cavs this year.

the upside to this is that bibby knows the cavs wanted him and if he decides to opt out of his deal at the end of the year, which he seems likely to do, he can come to the cavs and according to brian windhorst, gilbert will not have a problem going into the luxury tax realm to get a player like bibby.

anyway, moving on to last night's game, it was a damn good win. the cavs shot pretty badly but muscled out a win with from timely buckets by LBJ and good defense. and of course, andy was astounding last night. i wonder what Z is thinking these days, cuz he's lost his damn job. or at least he should've lost his job. andy gives better numbers than Z (and yeah, he's has better offensive numbers than ilgauskas! andy in his 4 starts this year is avg. 16 and 12 per, while Z has given us about 12 and 8 per) and is a far superior individual defender than Z. sure, ilgauskas is a better shot blocker but he is such a liability defending the pick 'n roll, for example, that his shot blocking ain't making it up. the only problem that i forsee with putting ilgauskas on the bench is that i don't think he will become more effective off the bench, as snow has. i think Z is just not the type of player who can come off the bench "warm" enough to contribute.

when the season starts next year, andy will be 24 and Z will be 32. we have to move him or maybe he will retire. i'm not sure if he retires just how that would effect the cavs salary cap structure but i guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. but i'm telling ya, i've got a feelin' he might hang 'em up. just a hunch...

so, a good win last night and a smackdown of the bulls at the Q tonight would go a long way towards shutting up all the national pundits, who have pretty much handed the east to the pistons. we'll see...