Quick Jim O'Donnell hit

Jim O'Donnell wrote about Jerome James' futile attempt to guard Lebron in game 4 of the Bulls-Caves series.  While it was pretty much a readable column-- there were a couple of things.  Like not having someone read through his column to point out a factual mistake.  There's usually some grammar errors mixed in too, so I thought I'd start pointing things out.  Here's part of his article:

Vinny's tactic makes you wonder

By Jim O'Donnell

April 26, 2010

Johnson -- the team's No. 1 draft pick last June.
Johnson -- the extremely well-intended, athletic martial-arts ace from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Johnson -- the slow-to-develop playoff phantom who has been completely overshadowed by second-round choice Taj Gibson.
Even worse, in his first playing time of the game, Johnson was assigned to guard James.
Quietly, James licked his megastar inner chops.

Quick fact check: Taj Gibson was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft (#26 overall).  This is on the website of the Suntimes: feel free to find an intern who knows basic draft pics or has access to some advanced basketball knowledge base.  Like Google.  Which could take you here.

And draft picks sometimes take time to develop-- and after the first few picks of the last draft there was little worth drafting.  His not being able to perform as a mid-round draft pick isn't exactly as scandalous as O'Donnell is indicating.  It would be nice if he were better, but there was a bunch of crap in the last draft.

That being said-- the athleticism you mentioned (martial-arts ace) would be a reason to try him against the best player in the league.  It was odd to put him in when he did and let him foul as much as he did, but why not.  Nobody on the Bulls is stopping Lebron anyway.

A simple, kind of weak little bit of work on my work-- hopefully enjoyable.