What happens in dreamleague happens in the NBA

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[From Stephen B. Snyde for Friday tidbits...]

Any given dreamleague AAA game, any given night: guy dribbles down the court with about 10 seconds left, down by 1. He's already taken most of the team's shots and, quite frankly, the team is better off with him shooting this last one, and they want him to shoot it. Only one problem: the other team knows this too.

So anyways, the guy's defender is doing a pretty good job, especially as the guy dribbles some more to the sideline, further choking his options, as the clock ticks down 10, 9, 8. Another defender from the other end of the court comes over to try and pick it while his teammate has the guy preoccupied. Guy heaves it with two hands in his face at the buzzer, ball comes nowhere near hoop. Game over. Yuck. Guy and his teammates all go home depressed a little, but not that bad. Gotta get up for work in the morning. Hey, it's AAA. We're here for fun anyways. No need to go yelling at each other and strive for perfection.

Well, this same thing happened to Lebron James and the Cavs last week. Same exact thing (sadly, even the post-mortem). The 2-guard was nowhere to be found. The 3 and the 5 decided to watch from the baseline. The 4 failed to cut to the wide open middle. No one on the bench really knew what to say. Coach forgot to draw up a play. Total, utter lack of basketball IQ exhibited.

It's just a good thing we dreamleaguers don't end up in the newspaper later in the week with sentence after sentence of ridiculously obvious observations and comments.

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