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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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.****
Does anyone really care why Carson Palmer left the Cincinnati Bengals? I’m just happy we have him here in Arizona.****
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]