Personal Campaign: Pass it to # 7 son!

Like a true Italian, Il Mago stays crisp with the fashionable pink shirt.  Is that Weems creeping in the back?

Owning Il Mago on a fantasy bball team can be an exercise in being hopeful. Why? Because you see the potential, small improvements, occasional (but too few in between) big game; but you also see the lack of rebounding, the greater lack of improvement in that area, no real significant change in passing, blocking and general defensive ability, and, more importantly, the snail-pace Bargnani is taking in fulfilling his artificially pre-ordained superstar destiny by virtue of being a no. 1 overall pick.

Still, this is not a post about the love/hate affair I have with the 7-foot paesan. I am over the moon seeing Bargs being a lot more aggressive offensively this year, since this is probably all he will ever excel at as far as his NBA career goes, and because of this it leads me to passive-aggressive fits of cursing in three different languages - none of them being Italian though - when his team mates (read: Jack, Jarrett, and Weems, Sonny) do not feed him the ball more often and decide to go on a wild quest to the hoop themselves. Bargs NEEDS the ball to show everyone that he can be a legit star in this league. Maybe I just don't like Jack or Weems, both of whom have a delusions of grandeur in thinking that any of them are scoring options, even on this lowly Raptors team. I can live with Kleiza, Barbosa, and DeRozan getting theirs (I do believe that these three and Bargs actually take the most shots on the team still), although I would prefer Barbosa taking way less shots too. But my patience with non-Andrea players ends when # 1 and 24 forget that the only thing they remotely have in common with other scoring greats is the numbers on their backs.

I need to find stats to back up my ranting to make it less of a rant and more of an argument. Stay tuned folks