maybe he is in the right place and now playing to his potential. He leads pre-season in reb by a wide margin and is shooting over 50% had 25 and 10 in 25 minutes last night. When you throw guys into wrong positions--like Dirk playing C or Rahim and gooden playing 3 or 1 instead of 4, i dont think you will get the best out of them.

If he can stop the partying he can go far.

Maybe with a contract year ahead, and his whole entourage not willing to leave the Magic Kingdom for freaking Cleavelend, he can concentrate better.

the thing i'm happy about is that cleveland may not have lost that much by boozer bolting. they ended up with gooden and verajao which could turn out to be better.

btw, is diop benched or is he hurt? man, a nice trade of kurt for diop and a #1 would be great right now.