December 2015

Referees, or Robots?

By |2017-03-17T16:51:02-07:00December 18th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Remember back to a day when the referees had style and personality and were, for all intents, an integral part of the show? From a player standpoint, you knew how certain refs were going to call the game. As a matter of fact, part of the pre-game talk was whether the refs were going to […]

Dolph Schayes

By |2015-12-12T05:41:57-07:00December 12th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Yesterday, a grand player, a great teammate, and a special friend passed on. Unless you played with Dolph, you could never really appreciate how good he really was.

He was not particularly athletic but he could rebound with the best of them, and he could shoot, equally well, with both hands.

In one play-off series, limited by […]

Memo to Adam Silver

By |2015-12-11T03:54:42-07:00December 11th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Commissioner, PULEEZE pay attention to what is happening to the NBA game today. Let me refer to Rule #10 — Violations and Penalties:

Section II — Dribble

d. A player who is dribbling may not put any part of his hand under the ball and (1) carry it from one point to another or (2) bring it […]

Crack in the Analytical Armor

By |2015-12-11T03:55:49-07:00December 11th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Hopefully, the selection by the 76ers of Jerry Colangelo, a basketball purist, will be the beginning of the end of the analytic revolution that has taken pro basketball by the throat in recent years.
Finally … the fans, the press and the ownership, in particular, may be tiring of the lack of urgency. The “be patient” […]

Matt Barnes

By |2015-12-04T02:33:53-07:00December 4th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Last year when Matt Barnes was with the Clippers, Reggie Miller chirped up and announced, “Every NBA team needs a Matt Barnes.”  Wouldn’t you know it? Guess who now has a place on the Memphis roster? Admittedly, it just SEEMS like every team, literally, has had a Matt Barnes but, in fact, he’s only been […]

Assistants vs. Players

By |2015-12-04T02:31:48-07:00December 4th, 2015|Uncategorized|

In the old days, NBA rosters were capped at ten or 11 players but, often, because of injuries, teams would suit as few as seven or eight players. Today, if you’re paying attention and counting noses in the huddle, NBA teams have more assistant coaches than we had players.****

Tired Teams

By |2015-12-01T03:12:14-07:00December 1st, 2015|Uncategorized|

After a brief time out, Mister Research and I have returned! While on brief hiatus, I was lured to a Houston Chronicle headline: HAWKS THUMP WIZARDS. What revelations were contained in the accompanying article, what with Washington turning the ball over 26 times, Atlanta missing its first eight shots and 13 of the first 15. […]

November 2015

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

By |2015-11-01T16:33:21-07:00November 1st, 2015|Uncategorized|

With only a handful of really good teams, and a bunch of rebuilding clubs or teams in transition (read that: bad teams), the NBA opened for business this week.  The owners, the fans, the press, and even the folks at league headquarters all have bought into “the build for the future” mantra.  “Don’t worry,” they […]

October 2015

Short or Long?

By |2015-10-08T03:57:46-07:00October 8th, 2015|Uncategorized|

With football now in full swing, have you noticed that the players’ pants are getting shorter? So, now, we have basketball shorts getting longer while football pants are getting shorter. And, of course, most of the baseball pants have been dragging on the ground for a generation or more. I don’t know what to make […]

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