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Sheed has a broken foot. Season, and most likely career, done.
Vaya con dios, Sheed.
I would like it better (and think it would function better) if there was a team cap and not an individual player cap. Then you have to decide just how much of your cap you want Lebron to take up rather than just offering the max (which he is obviously worth much more than).
at the time, the sixers had iguodala and jrue holiday, two guys who are among the best in the NBA in defending their positions. if you add asik to that (and it's worth noting that he's signed to a contract that pays him less per year than the combination of kwame brown and spencer hawes), then at the very least you have a top 5, top 3 defense in your pocket.
the offense would look terrible, mind you, but the offense the sixers have now looks terrible, so you're not losing much.
Further magnifying the damage you can do with a single mistake!
Feature, not bug (and I say that as a T-Wolves fan).
Mistakes in general.
Monte Ellis a completely off balance 1 hand random put up from way beyond the arc at the buzzer for the win.
The pull up 3 on the break he just hit was filthy. The net barely moved. Who shoots 10-12 from 3? That's basically stupid.
No one. Curry shoots 11-13.
So, you are sort of the anti-Abbott?
Maybe tonight. I should mention that the plays they were running weren't very good. Maybe plays is the wrong word.
Spurs in OT against the Suns. That's... not expected.
Yeah that game featured some sucky D. Letting Teague drive the lane for layup after layup in the 3rd really bugged me too. I really should do the team a favor and stop attending games; they're 2-4 this season when I've gone, 19-4 at home otherwise. Hard to say no when my boss gives me free lower bowl tickets though.
Luckily the Warriors and Rockets lost as well.
Hey Booey, you think you can make the Grizz game on Mar 16th?
The beard too. Makes him look like someone who played with uncle Drew back in the day.
Good thing he foresaw this, and went by his middle name. Though I guess the Rocket could go by Eddie Harden.
Color me shocked Jefferson played bad defense. Up next, water, still wet :)
I'm biased, but I'm really surprised someone hasn't given him another chance in the NBA. He's 6'10" and can block shots. He'll never be a star, or probably even a starter, but I thought he'd get another chance to show he belongs.
I wonder if he had flashbacks to the timeout his coach called at the end of Davidson's Elite 8 game. When your entire team is one guy, calling a timeout to let the other team figure out how to stop that one guy seems counterproductive.
I could almost defend the Zubaz as a "claw-mark" look for the aggressive mammal-themed schools on that list.
Georgetown has long been a Jordan brand school, and that has always been a good thing (Carolina, Cincinnati, and I believe one other have also been in the group). They manage to use traditional elements creatively (the Georgetown "ticker-tape" and the Carolina argyle) without turning the jerseys into a clownish spectacle.
Edit- I guess Cincy sold their souls. Maybe their soles too.
He made all 11 of the threes in the final 3 quarters, which is even more impressive. At first, I was struck by how bad the Knicks defense on the three point line was (Felton overpursuing and jumping wildly at ever pump fake, Amare hedging very weakly on screens), but the deeper you get into that clip, the more unconscious Curry gets. Felton started squaring him up better, not giving him much space to gather, and Chandler did a good job closing out on the hedges, and it made not a damn bit of difference.
Not to go all college on everyone, but where do you stand on the Muskies conference affiliation? I have a good friend who went there (class of 05 or 06) so I have always had a soft spot for them. I would love if the Catholic 7 added Xavier, Butler, St. Joe's and about 2 other midwewst-to-east smaller private schools with good academic reputations.
I've seen St. Louis University, Dayton, Creighton and VCU suggested for that league too.
I would be surprised (but not shocked) if Butler and VCU weren't added -- it'd be a similar win/win for those schools to be included too. There's a reason the A-10 wanted them (and they wanted the A-10). Without Xavier and Temple, some of the shine comes off of the A-10.
SLU has a good fit too -- private Catholic school, successful basketball program (though with post-Majerus questions), decent media market.
Dayton, meh. But I might be biased.
There is a college basketball thread, too...
With all the recent movement, it's pretty amazing to see that the MVC has survived intact for so long.
Basically. But the A-10 won't give up on programs like Fordham or La Salle or Duquesne who haven't been relevant in decades, if ever. St. Bonaventure might get a pass for a few seasons based on their once-in-a-lifetime tournament apperance behind the type of player they might never land again (Andrew Nicholson).
Sure, there's always been top-25 contender outside of Xavier and Temple in the league (GW long ago, Rhode Island and Richmond, Charlotte more recently). But there's only a small set of schools that seem committed to fielding a competitive basketball program -- Xavier, Temple, Butler, St. Louis, VCU. Two of those schools just joined the league (Butler, VCU) and one just left (Temple). The conference doesn't bring a whole lot to the table for those top-end, except for the fact that there's not been any better options for those schools.
The Big East has/had has its deadweight too. But the A-10 doesn't have the strength in the middle to make up for it.
There's probably an argument for a midwest-centric elite basketball conference, but my guess is that there's not enough $$$ there to make it worthwhile.
Pretty much everybody hangs with a team that is 28-30--even last time, the Wolves closed the gap significantly after getting down about 25.
I do not think that the Lakers will make the playoffs, but Utah and Houston both losing home games last night should give them a little boost going into tonight.
Also reports that 2 more are added in the following year -- probably schools that can't/don't want to/won't get subsidized to pay the $2M A-10 exit fee to leave on Butler and Xavier's timeline -- SLU, Dayton
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9000502/catholic-7-schools-keep-big-east-name-new-league-next-season-according-sources
Heh. Not likely. And I already gave you the game on Dec 15th (first I attended this season). Now you're just being greedy. :-p
I did check the pricing out of curiosity and noticed the Grizzlies tickets are lot more expensive than all the crappy teams you play for the rest of the year. That's when I knew that we finally made it.
The only teams that are more expensive are the Knicks and the Nets. I was going to be a bit irritated about the Nets but then I remembered about the Deron Williams thing, so I'm going to assume its so you can all go cheer him or boo him or whatever Utahians(Utahites? Utahers?) do with former players who leave under a cloud.
1. The injuries to Gasol and Hill have actually helped D'Antoni. He likes to play 8 guys, and with Gasol and Hill gone and Blake back, he now has a pretty obvious 8-man rotation by default, albeit one with no one who resembles a backup 5. And while Jamison and Clark are certainly not better players than Gasol and Hill are, they actually fit the MDA system better and fit around Howard better than the other two do.
2. The Lakers are now 12-5 since they hit what will presumably be their low point at 17-25, but as Dave McMenamin pointed out, the five losses have come by an average of 14.4 points. So, as their record has improved, their point differential has gotten worse, and their actual and PYTH records are on a regression/collision course. Going into the Minnesota game, they were at + 0.9 with a PYTH of 31-27. I have tried to point out to people at the Lakers board I post at that the Lakers are probably not really any better than the teams they are chasing, and that is one reason among several that while I do think that (barring an injury to Bryant, Howard, or Nash) they will climb over .500 and win 42-45 games, I also think that they will end up 1-3 games short of the 8th spot.
As something of an aside, when Jackson was here, many hardcore Lakers fans, including me sometimes, would complain about how his rotations were absolutely set in stone, to the point of playing Gasol and Bryant in fourth quarters of blowouts, and of course almost always finishing games with Fisher, no matter how badly Fisher was playing. Some may recall that back in 2009, Phil didn't replace Walton with Ariza until Walton came to Jackson and asked him to (Jackson probably would have done it anyway, but still). Phil once said that he had such set rotations in part because he believed, in his Zennish way, that guys' bodies got into certain muscle memory/rhythms based on when and how they were used, and he didn't want to disrupt that. I was not that convinced.
But after watching nearly two years of Brown and D'Antoni, I have come to see that I think that I prefer my team to have a more set rotation. This is not to say that you want an inflexible coach; as with anything else, there needs to be a balance. And, obviously, both Brown and D'Antoni have dealt with high expectations, Swiss cheese rosters, injuries, age, and other problems. But it seems to me you may get more out of marginal guys if they have set roles, and the team is structured better that way, even if you sometimes get burned by bad matchups. This may vary with personnel as well--maybe top-heavy teams, like the Lakers, do better with a set rotation of the marginal guys.
This is the reasoning managers use for the uber fixed role bullpen usage in the regular season. That over the long season, the advantage gained by using your best reliever in high leverage situations is mitigated by giving everyone a fixed role in the bullpen, so they know when to get ready mentally and physically.
Whenever random veteran reliever has a randomly great season, there is a high probability you will hear about how he clearly knew his role and was trusted to it et al..
Think when you have marginal talent ( or knucklehead talent ), it is a good way to maximise the potential of these players. This is your role. Don't think. Focus on what you do well and what has gotten you in this role.
Not sure if you're saying the Lakers will get the 7 seed or you don't think the Spurs will hold on to their lead in the standings.
Grizz, Knicks, and Nets are all more expensive than the Thunder? That surprises me (well, not the Knicks so much).
Utahns is what we call ourselves. Unfortunately Utahrds is what people who live here but came from other states seem to prefer calling us.
DWill will get an equal mix of cheers and boo's, I assume. A lot of us - including me - still like him (he's still featured in an advertisement on a billboard beside a highway in north Salt Lake for some reason), but that just makes us want to beat him even more. I do find his o-fer against the Jazz since joining the Nets amusing.
Damn, missed this one cause I was on a flight.
I like the man, but Simmons did a lot of water-carrying for the BS claims of the owners leading up to and during the lockout, so his first paragraph is pretty ####### rich.
No kidding. He's saying "they fooled us! They lied to us! They gave us bad info!" when he should be saying "they fooled me! They got me to lie for them by giving me access! I took their bad info at face value because I wanted the scoop!" He is not the first to do it, he will not be the last, but that is what happened.
Nope, I missed the Thunder when I looked before. They appear to be priced on the same tier as the Knicks and Nets. Grizz look to be like 1 tier down, so that the best tickets to their games are ~$20 cheaper than Knicks/Nets/Thunder.
He can't really be this gullible, can he? Every sports league ever has said this. The NHL owners the last three times, the MLB ones in 94, the NFL numerous times.
I know he wants to write the column, but acting like he wasn't shoveling the #### during the lockout makes him much less credible. Which I guess is par for the course since he's on a tv show with Magic and Wilbon.
James making 75M sounds fine to me, and although it messes up the Lakers' cap space, I really have no issues with Kobe's pulling in 30 next year.
I think this is the key. As I recall, he did a similar job of carrying water for production companies and the status quo during the Writers' Guild strike a few years ago. There are several grains of salt one needs to take with Simmons, but I think the biggest is that anything he says on labor relations tends to slant heavily towards the management side. I think this is also exacerbated by his tendency to believe he knows everything about a situation he has at best partial or biased information on.
Harden's clearly not himself today though, the bumped knee is probably still bothering him quite a bit.
Montejunas in the last couple of games have been really been great on the offensive end, but equally appaling on the defensive end.
That's from a November '11 Simmons column. Two years before, he called the NBA the "No Benjamins Association."
So yeah, what everyone else said.
GASOL!
That's from a November '11 Simmons column. Two years before, he called the NBA the "No Benjamins Association."
So yeah, what everyone else said.
I thought Lionel might have gotten caught trying to ride his bench a little too long in the 4th. Think you're going to get them in the next stoppage and then all of sudden there's 5 mins left.
Mostly though, there were just several possessions in the 4th where the Grizz defended great and the Heat either executed something perfectly with the clock winding down or knocked down a pretty tough shot. Such is life.
The Grizzlies were able to attack Ray Allen on the defensive end more than I've seen from other teams. This isn't earth-shattering news considering his age but Allen doesn't have a lot of athleticism left considering he once competed in a dunk contest.
The Grizzlies guarded LeBron pretty well and I like what Prince added to their game tonight.
Conley was able to create some offense for himself. I think he can fill some of the void left by Gay.
Overall, I think Memphis would play Miami really tough in a 7 game series.
I've kind of thought that for a while. I think they're now either 4-2 or 3-2 against them since the Super-Friends got together. It's probably irrelevant this year, because they'd most likely have to pull off 2 upsets in a row to make the finals, not mention beat a pretty good team in round 1, but if they did all that, I think they might match up as well with Miami as anybody does.
I am increasingly starting to get the feeling that they are not going to be an easy out at all in the playoffs and have a pretty good shot at surprising somebody in the 2nd round. That said, if they can't catch LAC, the Denver series in the 1st round could go either way, I think. They really need to win the next 5.
Yeah, fair enough. I agree no teams in the NBA are likely to overlook them. I guess I'm reacting more to the talking heads who seem to have mentally downgraded them now that they don't have someone to create their own 19-footers and make 40% of them (Sorry, Rudy, that's not really fair of me). They've been on national TV a couple times in the last week or so, so I've heard more of that lately I guess.
Jeremy Evans is a better small forward than Marvin Williams. As is Gordon Hayward. And DeMarre Carrol. And Paul Millsap when we go big and Favors plays the 4. So basically, Marvin is our 5th best option at the position, and yet he starts. Sigh...
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