Ed Davis - Good Soldier, or Walking (Shambling) Dead?

“Obviously he and DeMar (DeRozan) are arguably our best players or the guys we need to finish games. You always have to ride with your stars and that’s what (our coach) did. Andrea is never going to shoot 2-for-19 again. I think it was a good thing just to know that coach Casey has that trust in him.” - Ed Davis.

At first I was going to go with the whole "drinking the Kool-Aid" cliche for Ed Davis's comment in the Toronto Sun this morning. But then I thought maybe the zombie metaphor was the way to go. Infectious, stumbling undead? Sounds a lot like our omnishambling squad.

'Must ... support ... crappy ... teammate...'

But I hope that's not what it was. I hope Ed was just being a good, supportive teammate. I hope he was being a good soldier, putting team first. Most importantly, I hope he did not believe a word he said. Because, as Blake so nicely put it yesterday, Bargnani is no star and he's not our "best player". 

(Btw, Sun, showing Ed Davis's points and rebounds to indicate how he's been playing over the past five games? LAME. It's 2012, get with the metrics. They are far more usual for showing how efficient and useful a player has been in limited minutes).

In sunnier news, a member of the Toronto media has finally called for the head of GM Bryan Colangelo. Thank you Andy Phillips! All five of his criticisms of Colangelo's team are spot on.

End the omnishambles! Fire Colangelo!