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Plenty to learn from Week 1

By Eric Karabell
ESPN.com

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

You can learn quite a bit in a week's worth of games. Dwight Howard still can't hit free throws, coach Don Nelson still can't trust his bench, and I still can't believe I picked Kirk Hinrich over Derrick Rose in one league. Ridiculous. I always preach patience with star players who are off to slow starts because, let's face it, you need a bit more than two or three games to call it a decent sample size. You need a month. If Pau Gasol is still being outscored by Daniel Gibson in December, then y ...

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