The Kind Of Dudley Who Makes "Dud" Jokes Too Easy (Or: Even My Sure Things Fall Through).

Tossing out fantasy basketball prognostications is a little like Chris Dudley hoisting a free-throw: unlikely, hopeful, and even when successful, you still look like a fool. Thus, after typing up a storm on the potential prospects of another man named Dudley, I am now looking a lot like a massively-uncoordinated Yale graduate grooming a forested thatch on my chest. Jared Dudley —the kids can call him "J-Dud"— dialled up a honker in his second successive game as full-time starter t'night. In his duel against Luol Deng, the 10,000 BC Eagle went Upper Paleolithic, casting stones basketward to the tune of 0/5 FG, 0/2 3PFG (he's now a smooth 0/9 for the year from range), with 2 REB, 2 TO, and 0 points in 20 power-packed minutes. Deng performed mildly better, going for 30 and 5 on 10/17 shooting, thereby winning this battle of the kind-of-awkward ACC small forwards. As for the Dudmeister, as far as making the case for more minutes goes, well, all he did was prove that he has a long way to go to measuring up to his namesake. J-Dud, you my have fly-if-it-were-still-01 cornrows, but you ain't know Christen Guilford Dudley.