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-To begin with: Brian Windhorst with an early-season roundup<\/a> of what the Cavs have been doing this season. I disagree with him on the offensive impact Shaq has had, especially when the numbers seem to indicate<\/a> he’s really been disrupting the flow on that end, but he’s spot-on about everything else, including Shaq’s better-than-advertised (and, for me, expected) defensive impact.<\/p>\n -Finnian, along with just about everybody else, is not a fan of the dancing<\/a>. Awesome, another mini-controversy. Look, I hate watching the dancing as much as everybody else, and think it absolutely sends the wrong message, but I’m not the one playing. He’s a grown man, and it’s his right to make himself look how he wants to. This is also not a new thing<\/a> for LeBron. My last thought on this: can anybody else imagine a controversy that revolved around LeBron actively and consciously making himself less palatable in the eyes of mainstream America?<\/p>\n -Stuff like this Rockets broadcaster yelling at referees<\/a> is the kind of thing that makes people so eager to believe a guy like Donaghy. What makes it worse is that this incident doesn’t seem all that ridiculous coming from a local color guy. As someone who’s had league pass for a little while, I can tell you that complaining about calls is a pretty common broadcaster pastime, and it takes away from how their viewers end up seeing the game.<\/p>\n -On a related note, I rarely link to the mothership, but TrueHoop’s posts completely debunking many of Donaghy’s claims<\/a> are a must-read.<\/p>\n -Great stuff from Eddy Rivera of Third Quarter Collapse using some very slick Synergy Sports analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n