My friends, when you only have the money to sign one free agent, and you spend it all on James Jones to be a designated perimeter shooter to space the floor for Dwyane Wade, and then James Jones ruptures a tendon in his shooting wrist and is out for three months, that is a bad thing, right?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3646906
James Jones is the only professional jump shooter on the roster. I think he would have finished a lot of games: Wade handling the ball up top, James on one wing, maybe Quinn or Banks on another wing, with Beasley and Haslem.
This forces Yakhouba Diawara or Daequan Cook to play minutes at small forward, at least until Dorell Wright is back. Diawara is a non-shooter, non-scorer. Daequan Cook is fabulously athletic and has a beautiful stroke, but hasn't yet figured out what a quality shot is, or how to get it. Neither of them is an NBA rotation player. Not even remotely.
In history thesis news:
I am looking for a history thesis topic that can eventually be turned in to a book. Plumber had an excellent idea today about Japanese Americans' experiences during World War II, specifically that their tenacity and vigor in fighting against Japan allowed them to be more easily re-assimilated back in to American culture after their unfair stint in internment camps. It is a great idea that warrants more thought.
Anyone who has any ideas about this topic, or others, please post them or forward them to me.
Two other thoughts on this:
1) This book will just be a precursor to my master work, which will be an epic novel set in the Mennonite community in Belize. Think of it as a cross between From Here to Eternity and any Graham Greene novel.
2) The current leader in the clubhouse for a thesis topic is "The Big Green Monster: A Cliometric Look at Fenway Park's Left Field Wall from 1904-2008."
