OH HOW I MISS CHAUNCEY

Ahhhh, the last day of Blogness. It has been quite a holiday I must say. This last entry will be short and bittersweet. I can only manage to write a word or two at a time without starting to feel tears coming on and looking away from the screen. It is kinda how I felt during the movie Marley and Me. There were a lot of reasons I should not have been emotionally moved by this film, 1). It was not a good movie 2) I have never had a dog 3) My little brothers were cracking up hysterically and talking about what an awful movie it was right beside me and 4) If you think about it you should never cry at a movie. I mean I am on the verge of crying because a dog, who I already knew was going to die, is getting put to sleep as Owen Wilson pets him. This is the same guy that I saw for the first time in BehindEnemyLines and wondered what the hell was wrong with his nose, the same guy who is my favorite character in my favorite movie TheWendallBakerStory and the same guy that was in Wedding Crashers. I know this scene is not real and that Owen Wison is probably laughing and making out with Jennifer Anniston between takes but yet I am still pulling my hat over my eyes. Anyways, they say one of the most important steps in recovery is acceptance so the next few paragraphs are a step in the right direction for Bones.

OH HOW I MISS CHAUNCEY)


It has been 32 games since Detroit dealt my favorite player in any sport, ever, Chauncey Billups, to the Nuggetts. Like when Patty Puppernickle dumped me for standing under Jackie Johnson while she was on the monkey bars in sixth trade it has still not sunk in and still makes no sense. Bones simply does not understand what Joe Dumars was trying to accomplish. He said that the Pistons could not win the NBA championship with their current team, so he needed to mix things up. Can the win the NBA championship now? Absolutely not! The idea that the trade was made to clear up cap space for the free agent class of 2010 is equally rediculous. Is LeBron going to shun Cleveland and New York to play in Detroit? Is Dwayne Wade going to leave South Beach to live in a city that is known for being bitterly cold, having a struggling economy and a lagging night life? Is Chris Bosh going to reject offers to join Wade or LeBron wherever they land so he can hoop with Rodney Stucky in MoTown? The answers to all these questions in obviously no. So all the trade really did was rob Pistons fans of 10 wins a season, a round of the playoffs and their favorite player.

The team looks completely lost without Mr. Big Shot and started a line up of Stuckey, AI, Rip, Teyshaun King and Sheed last night. This brilliant strategy wouldn't even be legal in fantasy, which should be the main factor in all of a coach's decisions, and resulted in a loss to the lowly Bobcats. Most importantly, the trade has robbed me of almost all interest I had in the team. They have been on TV at least three times since the trade and I have not watched a single play. I feel no ill will towards Iverson but he does not fit in with the teams personal. Hopefully, I will come around by the playoffs but for now it is to painful to watch the game and not see Billups draining set 3s, hitting RIP coming off curls and big boying fellow point guards in the post. Chauncey seems to have moved on as evidenced by the 30 he dropped on Detroit. As the tears rain down on my laptop, potentially ruining the modern machine, I guess it is time for Bones to move on as well.