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http://dberri.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/mediocrity-in-milwaukee-and-number-one-choices-the-second-time-around/#comments

Dont really recall that game. Interesting though.

most people are idiots and less than competent at their jobs, big deal. making decisions in the real world is a lot different from crunching numbers.

“I am a firm believer that the Allan Houston signing was the most terrible blunder in team history”

dunno, the move that started our long slide was trading Ewing instead of just letting him play out his contract and leave. that saddled us with Glen Rice, who turned into Shandon Anderson and Howard Eisley, Anderson is still on the payroll through this season. at least Allan Houston helped get us to the Finals once, although admittedly before that long deal.

speaking of Allan Houston, has there ever been discussion anywhere about the last game of the Eastern Conference finals in 1999 somehow being fixed? every close call went to the Knicks, anyone who looked at Houston the wrong way got a foul call against them, and Mark Jackson’s huge butt back-in in the post, which Indiana ran their offense through all series, was all of a sudden a foul. I watched it a second time a few weeks later to count up the dubious calls and they were something like 22-2 in the Knicks’ favor. anyway, I don’t ever remember hearing anyone else talk about this, just curious if you guys remember things that way too.

Seems a strange way to attack – through player psychology. I wonder if just the fact that taking away points for shot attempts in itself is flawed enough – someone has to shoot every possession or it turns into a turnover, a shot is better than a turnover, therefore isn’t a shot attempt a good thing (obviously better shot attempts > bas shot attempts, but even taking a half court shot is > turning it over)?

Dan Panorama – Good Free Darko post. Thoughtful, thorough critique of TWOW. It doesn’t really shake my zealots faith. I posted a request for a response though on the WOW website.

I thought this comment on that thread was good.

“You could do the same statistical analysis, but title it why doesn’t a player as good as Allen Iverson win as much as he should?, and the people’s take on it would be totally different.”

Its a hard subject to discuss, and I think the WOW was rated the most controversial blog in sports for good reasons.

I do think any Knicks/Rangers fan should be highly sympathetic to a book that says GM’s are idiots, which in the final analysis is what the Wages of Wins is saying. There is no correlation between payroll and wins. Both New York teams have the highest payrolls in their respective sports and have barely made the playoffs this decade.

I grew up idolizing Charles Oakley. Its hardly surprising then that I love David Lee and that I have no trouble accepting the fact that Power Forwards are more productive than shooting guards.

I am a firm believer that the Allan Houston signing was the most terrible blunder in team history, and I believed that long before I read in the WOW that

“Perhaps no player illustrates the focus on scoring more than Allan Houston. In his career Houston was below average with respect to every statistical category except points scored and shooting efficiency. Except for these two stats, he did nothing else well. Yet he received more than $100 million in his career to play NBA basketball.”

Eddy Curry, a latter day Allan Houston?

Anyway, its going to be an extremely interesting contest tonight. Can’t wait to see Lee back in action.