The Sports Goddess has spent a great deal of time recently trying to decide why her fantasy basketball team hates her so much. Do you have any idea how much flak the Sports Goddess gets for having a last place team? The Sports Goddess would get much uncalled-for flak regardless of her team's position, but it is getting to the point where she is frequently questioning her own self-worth. The Sports Goddess clearly has deeper issues, but that's really not the point.
The sketchy Yahoo league that she participates in involves a weekly match-up between pairs of teams in the league. So a team either wins or loses on a week-by-week basis based on superior statistics in a number of categories.- points, rebounds, turnovers, steals, etc. And yes, Rasheed Wallace fans, ejections do count against you; they have their own category.
Despite the fact that she has only won one matchup so far this season, the Sports Goddess is not about to give up on her team.
She loves SuperTravisJakeRocks- she is very attached to most of the members of the team. Maybe that's where she went wrong. For the most part, she only selected players that she considered to be fine, upstanding citizens, at least compared to their NBA chums.
First off, there's Ray Allen. How do you go wrong with Ray Allen- UConn attendee, media darling, legitimate NBA superstar.
He can be counted on for a good 20-25 points, five assists and five rebounds a game.
He's totally lived up to those standards, but his shooting percentage is atrocious, especially for him. He usually shoots about .400 from behind the three-point line but Tues. night the Ray-man managed to make just one of 14 three-point attempts. What's going on there? He now officially owes the Sports Goddess big-time.
Allen is not the only former UConn player on the Sports Goddess's team. SuperTravisJakeRocks also features the one and only Jake Voskuhl, who at one point this season was the starting center for the Phoenix Suns. Due to some unexplained alien influence, Jake now comes off the bench for Phoenix. He has been reduced to no more than a back-up, which makes the Sports Goddess very angry. But at least he has an awesome free-throw percentage.
And to add to the trio of UConn players, the star of the Washington Wizards, Richard Hamilton, is her other shooting guard. His shooting percentage is absolutely killing her. Some nights, when the Wizards lose to the Bulls or something, she would like to bang Hamilton's head against the wall and ask him why on earth he was not able to put up more points. But she has not resorted to that just yet.
The point guard situation is a bit shaky, since after the draft the Sports Goddess realized that she had neglected to draft one.
She managed to pick up Jeff McInnis and Lindsay Hunter and has found no real characters flaws with either.
They are not the most exciting players in the league, though. She is very bored with both of them, actually. She is very angry that Yahoo Sports does not allow her to play Allen Iverson at point guard. Last year they did. Granted, her team had about four assists all year, but it was a high-scoring line-up.
Now the Sports Goddess knows what you're thinking. Why would she allow a person of such oft-questioned character as Iverson within 50 feet of her precious fantasy team? Well, the Sports Goddess is a little ashamed to admit that she temporarily lowered her standards on Draft Day.
She decided that her high-and-mighty stance would not get her very far in the league. So she drafted both The Answer and Jerry Stackhouse. No, she is not proud of herself. She sacrificed all her virtues in the name of scoring.
For an ex-Georgetown Hoya and an ex-North Carolina Tar Heel, for crying out loud. And look where her compromising all her morals got her? She's in last place in the Shakobe league- with no moral standards to speak of.
She's frustrated and angry and is going to do everything possible to overcome all the rampant cheating and game-fixing that is going on in the league. If she can't win, at least she intends to cause much havoc and go out kicking and screaming.
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