Tsaogrip gets in the act

Tsaogrip 0002 drops Jerry Stackhouse for Etan Thomas

Jerry Stackhouse is 34 and in serious decline. It's hard to imagine that he averaged 29.8 PPG in 2000-1. He was down to 10.7 points last year, and seems to have lost the SG job in Dallas to an unholy combination of Brandon Bass and Jason Terry. He seems likely to average 10/2/2 and provide little else (maybe a 3PG).

Etan Thomas is big, has a heart problem, and, with Brendan Haywood out, appears to have the starting C job in Washington, at least until Blatche improves. He's a lock for 6 and 6, and might get that up to 9 and 9, with 1.5 BLK. Moreover, he's written a book of poetry.

Judgment: The increase in rebounds, blocks and FG% is just what the Doctor ordered for Tsaogrip. The loss of Stackhouse will not be felt. As always, though, with any not very good C, FT% will suffer and there's a lot of PF/TECH/DISQ risk.