Rob Gordon once said, "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules." Thanks Rob. Well said. If Rob's take......

Nick Collison gets a few double-doubles and suddenly your sports section is filled with articles like "Collison excelling front and center". Now, since we are ignoring the Sonics, we haven't actually seen this new, improved Nick Collison, but we're willing to bet that his production has more to do with playing time than with any Great Leap Forward. We've long called this phenomenon of a crummy player accumulating impressive stats "The Christian Laettner Theory." Remember......