The Surprises and the Disapointments of 06'

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The 2006 TCBA season has kicked off with many big surpries and disapointments, in this article, i will be interviewing and scouting these players:

[glow=green,2,300]THE SURPRISES (GOOD)[/glow]

Michael Redd-SG-Rockets

After Michael Redd was traded from the Bucks, many analists thought that his stock would decrease, but they were wrong, Michael took all of the pressure and turned into one hell of a start to the year. Michael is averaging just about 29ppg 5 rpg 1apg 0.5spg 0.2bpg, and he has lead the Houston Rockets to a surprising 12 and 4, which really made some analists look bad. Before the Rockets made some key moves, they were predicticted by many analists to not make the playoffs and possibly be the worst team in the league. Michael Redd has lead them through almost everyone they face, and the Rockets franchise is depending on Redd to keep his statistics up, and be a team leader. When the Rockets traded away Tmac, many people were surprised about the move, and it made Redd have an extreme amount of pressure. There were many rumors on Hoopshype.com stating that the rockets might fire there new GM, who promised to bring them to the playoffs. When he traded away Tmac and got Redd, he must have saw something in Redd that other people didn't see, was it leadership? Skill? Potenial? We dont know, but everyone now agrees with him that this indeed was a great move.

Redd has shown leadership on the court and in the locker room, his amazing start to the TCBA 06' season has shocked many, including tmac, the former Rocket star. A great picture taken by our photographer, IJ ihota, catching one of Redd's amazing plays

After one of Redd's amazing performances we got to catch up with him in after the game,

Emma Levine from ESPN was able to ask Redd a couple of questions:

Emma (too ugly to have a picture): Hello... Michael?... would you mind if i asked you a few questions?
Redd: No, not all.
Emma: Great
on camera
E: Hello all you sports fans! Im Emma Levine and i am here standing next to Michael Redd, who has started the TCBA season averaging just under 30 ppg and is the 3rd leading scorer so far. So Michael, has your game elevated since you have moved from Milwakuee to Houston?
R: No, none of my game has changed, i was just tired of being in Milwaukee, nothing personal, i just wasnt playing with as much effort as i can. But i dont want to be hatin' there franchise, i actually wanna thank them for getting my game at level it is at right now, without them i would still be one of those 2nd round picks who hangs around for a long time almost never starts. I love Houston, everything about it, and i hope i can stay here for a long time.
E: What was running through your mind when you heard all of the analists say that you were going to get worse and not be as good as Tmac , did it affect your game?
Yes it did, but not in a negative way, i used all the pressure and false statements to take my game to the next level. And if you think that i'm doing really good right now, watch me win the MVP.
E: Thank you Michael, and good luck to you, we all hope that you continue your amazing performance.
R: Its always a pleasure.

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Hello, once again, all you sports fans, im Joey Craytin here with some news on the TCBA season.

If you tuned into my last addition it stated the surprise start from michael redd, who is averaging just about 30 points.

The next surprise is up in the north, where [glow=green,2,300]Rafeal Arajuo [/glow]is playing great for the Raps and is averaging just about a double-double.

Before the TCBA year started, the Toronto Raptors were worried that they wouldnt have a big man in the middle, because Bosh was too skinny and weak to play center and Villenuva is a rookie and they thought that he wasnt ready to play C, which is true, he is focusing more on becoming more of an antoine walker type player. Rafeal was drafted 8th overall by the Raptors all the way back in the 2004 NBA season, 2 years before the NBA went on strike and collasped. In his rookie year he produced little, and spent most of his games, as expected, on the bench.

The Raptors are in the process of rebuilding so they decided to have Araujo start, to hope insure that he devolps into the player former Raptors GM who drafted him thought that he would be. But the new GM didnt want Araujo playing all of the Center minutes so he decided to only play him 26 min a game.

Despite the Raptors horrible 8-20 record they are very excited to see Araujo develop, in 26min he is averaging 11 and 9, just about a double-double, if Rafeal keeps this up he could be in the race for the TCBA MIP. If he improves his game and learns the fundementals, in the future, dont expect to see the raptors being a team missing out on the playoffs,because a deadly and tall frontcourt of Rafeal.Bosh. and Villuenva could be scary to many teams and create miss matches.

Araujo is a young stud, who is a hustler and plays with excitment. He also is a good learner and a good leader in the locker room even though he is only a rookie.

Most TCBA analists have said the key to Araujo's success so far is his quickness with his feet and his ability to keep balanced; here is Raptors announcer James Ludy with what he sees in Araujo's game and how it has changed;

Hello, James Ludy here, and some key things to Araujo's early success is his nack of wanting to do better, when ever he has a goal he does whatever he can to accomplish it. He also stays late after every practise and runs sucicieds and practises his post game. When everyone is tired and on the bench he is working on whatever he feels. Also during water breaks, he doesnt stop doing the drill, he keeps doing it. Over the summer he didnt take a break like most players, he was in the gym 5 days a week for 8 hours a day. He also bulked up a bit and added muscle to help him become bigger and stronger, his goal was to bulk up 10 pounds, he bulked up 15. He also over the summer worked on his footwork, he used to be a slow mover but now hes quick and does the right movements. He now uses his speed to out hustle his opponet. Also by getting quicker and gaining muscle, he can now guard the Center postiton and the Power Forward postion. Araujo has gotten so much better, and dont think hes going to slow down, he is special, and thats all i need to say.

Thank you James, thats it for me, tune in to our next addition where we are going to feature another big surpise that has shocked the TCBA in a good way.

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Hello again all of you daily readers, im Joey Craytin here once again with some news about the 2006 TCBA season. This article is about a player from the Knicks, he was a late pick in the last NBA draft ever, his name, nate robinson.

All of the TCBA analists said that nate would not get the starting job because of his height, and also because before the new knicks gm came into office the knicks were loaded with high paying guards such as Steve Francis and Stephon Marbury; they both arent too bad of players but they were defiently not worth there money and also they were aging stars and there stats were decreasing as the years went on. They also caused many problems in the locker room and for a team that we thought was trying to rebuild locker problems are always a bad thing for a team. So the new knicks gm was smart in preparing to start the rebuilding process by sending marbury to orlando and francis to Utah it opened up the doors for rebuilding, and to start that process they didnt have any good pg's so basically they needed to start the rookie; Nate Robinson. The knicks also wanted to play nate because of his way to start momentum for the team and because he could keep the crowd into the game even when they were losing by alot. He kind of has the attitude like former knicks player and hustler Jerome Williams yes thats williams NOT Jerome James. Little did the knicks no that nate had alot of potenial to be a very consistent and a good point guard. He shocked alot of people, becuase threw the knicks first 37 games nate robinson is averaging nearly 15 ppg 4 rpg 6 apg. He has probably made a couple of new knick fans because he is a role model to all of the people who have trouble playing basketball because of there size, size; doesnt matter to nate, because he is GREAT. Nate Robinson is arguably 2nd in the ROY voting so far, behind chris paul; who is flat out AMAZING. Nate Robinson might turn out to be one of the greatest picks ever by a the new york knicks; hopefully he can lead them to the playoff's after they are done rebuilding.


Nate Robinson's ability to get the crowd excited and into the game is unbeliavle. Nate has been flat out amazing through the knicks first 37 games, despite there horrible record. Nate has shocked many people in a very good way; its almost impossible to hate his game.

thats it for the news on the TCBA season; next edition we will be talking about some of the disapointments so far in the TCBA season.

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Dwight Howard: Tim Duncan's Heir Apparent

In his second year in the NBA, Dwight is now ready to play. A top scorer and rebounder he already is what Tim Duncan is. Geuss what? He is only 18 and still has A potential. After the keys to the engine that is the Magic were handed to him, he turned it up. After bringing in Channing Frye to help him down low, Van Horn for more scoring, and Billups to help lead and run the team, Dwight is ready for prime time.


Dwight Howard with a ferocious dunk to electrify the Magic Crowd.

After the Shaq era the Magic have not have a real big man stud. They now have one, and the management prays and hopes that this big man doesnt bolt like the other one did.


"Dwight desires to be great and works hard at it." said the trainer of the Magic.

What does the future hold ifor Dwight? Will he reach greatness? Will he become the best big man ever? Or will he stumble, fall and give up once he gets the big contract he deserves in a couple of years? Only time will tell

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