Chris Paul is Back
Remember back in 2005 when Chris Paul was the greatest thing since sliced bread? He was the next Jason Kidd. He was a guy with the Steve Nash-like ability to turn his team into a postseason threat no matter who was playing with him. He was a sure thing. Some people thought that by now he would already be the key to the Olympic team’s success.
Then 2006 happened. Paul and many of his Hornets teammates were banged up and the team won only one more game than the year before. Meanwhile, over in Utah Deron Williams was shredding the Warriors “defense” and making everybody forget about the guy who was drafted one pick after him. The Chris Paul hype machine died down.
But back is 2006 something else was happening. Paul was getting better. His sophomore numbers are improvements over his rookies stats in most categories.
Now the Hornets are 6-2 and everybody remembers, “Hey, Chris Paul is awesome.” Of course he’s awesome. How could we forget. We take our eyes off of him for a split-second and suddenly he’s leading the league in assists, and his team is the surprise of the season.
I guess here’s what I’m trying to say: Attention media, it’s time to officially re-start the Chris Paul bandwagon.
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