Cleveland Cavaliers 102 Final Recap | Box Score 103 New York Knicks Ronnie Brewer, SF 18 MIN | 1-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 2 AST | 2 PTS | -4 I have precious few beefs with Woodson’s handling of the rotation this year. I also understand the temptation to overcompensate for [...]
New York Knicks 85 Final Recap | Box Score 93 Chicago Bulls Kurt Thomas, PF 16 MIN | 3-4 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 1 AST | 6 PTS | +3 It’s not really getting any better for Kurt. Wasn’t bad tonight but he remains incapable of distinguishing himself on a very [...]
Indiana Pacers 76 Final Recap | Box Score 88 New York Knicks Carmelo Anthony, SF 31 MIN | 9-22 FG | 7-8 FT | 9 REB | 0 AST | 26 PTS | +18 Carmelo continues to provide daily evidence that FG% and efficient offense are not the same thing. 26 points on 22 FGA’s, [...]
Introduction: Two Guys Walk into a G-Chat Window me: zach lowe wrote a better version of everything i wanted to write about d’antoni. like literally every point i was going to make: d’antoni is 1) a great offensive coach who 2) got short-shrifted because of people choosing to look at things without nuance and 3) [...]
Some technical difficulties last night so apologies for the delay to this morning and the non-fancily-formatted nature of the below post. Max Fisher-Cohen and I split the duties tonight; initials indicate who wrote what: STARTERS Amar’e Stoudemire (B-): Pretty shooting and scoring numbers for Amar’e in his first preseason game. When in the 4th quarter Stoudemire finally got [...]
Stats: Player Age G MP MPG PER TS% eFG% TRB% AST% TOV% USG% Carmelo Anthony 27 55 1876 34.1 21.1 0.525 0.463 10.6 21 10.8 31.8 Per 36 Minutes: FGA 3PA 3P% FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS 19.7 3.9 0.335 7 0.804 1.7 4.9 6.6 3.8 1.2 0.5 2.8 [...]
Basketball and big business are both complicated things and, when combined, can make for a full-fledged clusterfrack. Rarely is this truer than in the brain of Jimmy Dolan, quarters so cavernous and labyrinthine that disgraced former GMs are able to burrow and hide for years beyond their useful lives, pulling strings and likely sexually harassing [...]
