Jamario

Merrio, Marrio, Tomaaato, Tommatto…it doesn’t matter, this kid can play ball.

Moon is looking good, but the true reason for this post (besides being impressed with Jamario’s performance at last night’s game in their loss to Utah) is my attempt to use the NBA.com’s widget. Sadly this widget that would have shown his up to date stats directly on this page does not work in WordPress.

I’ll have to settle for an action shot and some news about Jamario from around the web.

He’s starting to make some waves (and bad puns) in the NBA circles, the folks at NBA.com have him at 6th in the rookie rankings and did a long, but not very funny, writeup of him in this weeks rookie report. Here’s an excerpt:

After seeing the 6-8, 205 pound forward put on an impromptu dunk-a-thon during layup lines while covering the Raptors game against the Celtics in Rome during Europe Live last month, a couple things were clear to me at the time:

A) This guy should be in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest
B) Nothing against Andrea Bargnani, but I’m looking at the most exciting rook north of the border since he-who-must-not-be-named
C) When I do eventually give him love in the Rookie Rankings, I’m going to make like a Denny’s menu author and title the column “Moon Over My Rankings” in his honor

The slightly edgier dudes over at ESPN.com’s daily dime actually have Moon ranked 4th just below Harford. Although in NBA.com’s defense, their rankings didn’t include his game last night. Here’s what they had to say:

4. Jamario Moon, Raptors: Moon defends, hustles and can finish. He may be the small forward Toronto’s looking for.

All good stuff. Now if the rest of the team can bring it like Jamario is, we will actually win more games than we lose.