The NBA's new "Showtime"?

I think it's high time we all get on the Clipper bandwagon. This is a club that needs some love and a little luck. And I'm onboard for '08-09.

Why exactly? Well take a look at the team's new roster - this is a line-up with the potential to bring Showtime back to LA.

One of my favourite players, Baron Davis, will be leading from point: that's 20 points and eight or nine assists per game right there. Not to mention the intagibles B-Diddy brings to the court - flair, energy, speed, the ability to lift the crowd and the strength to overpower smaller guards. Throw in a few of his Hollywood pals courtside and this will no doubt be entertaining.

At the "2" there are a few options but I like the idea of giving first-year man Eric Gordon a shot at the starting spot. He may not come in on opening night but this guy is a flat out scorer with unlimited range. At some point he has to start. In the interim, there's Cuttino Mobley and Kelenna Azubuike (who looks likely to officially join the Clippers this week) to bring solid contributions to the role. Both are skilled enough to mix it up with most western conference guards.

In the frontline, we're looking at newly signed block monster, Marcus Camby, Chris Kaman and Al Thornton. I mean come on - are you kidding me!? That's a hell of a starting squad. That's a playoff potential squad.

I can see Davis pushing it with this mobile unit, throwing plenty of alley-oops and enough behind the back passes to make us think we're in the Great Western Forum circa 1987. This could be the best thing since B-Diddy's buddy Jessica Alba hit Hollywood folks...stay tuned.

Golden State Worry... er...

It was just awful to watch the Warriors be dismantled by the Mavs yesterday. I never expected it and I don't think the blue and gold did either.

Dallas was red hot with Jason Kidd in particular playing like one of those movie stuntman set alight. He was running around uncontrollably and none of the Golden State players could douse the flames. It was frustrating - if you wanted the Warriors to win that is. They shot just 38% from the field to Dallas' 48%. And that's just the start.

What made it worse was that the Mavs - often sluggish in a half court set that's anchored by a seven footer with no lateral movement whatsoever - beat the Warriors at their own game. Yes, they out ran them!

Baron Davis might have scored 20 points but he was not distributing like we've seen him do all year. Where were you Diddy? Where was the hustle and flow? Where was the run and gun? Dammit, where was the showtime? It was no where to be seen in Texas on Wednesday, that's for sure.

Hey, I still believe. I still think Golden State can grab that eight seed in the west but it's going to take a better effort over the next week and a hell of a lot more passing. All up Golden State had 10 assists. Dallas had 35. You do the math. Geez Louise, Jason Kidd had 17 assists himself! Something stinks in the state of gold when the highest scoring team in the league can't string a few pases together doesn't it?