Comments on: Henry Abbott & The Art of Automobile Maintenance

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:53:04 +0000

How cn you not put Tony Parker and Gilbert Arenas up there!?

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:33:00 +0000

when did Tony Parker change his name to Nate Robinson?

I don’t think Kenny Smith has been back since botching that FT call at the end of the Seattle game, maybe that was always the plan anyway. I kind of like him, but that was just inexcusable, hopefully someone went off on him at least for that.

did anyone here have any hope that Channing Frye would make that one at the end (easiest of those three shots by far)? he wasn’t even close. Francis drives me nuts, but at least he has balls, he almost hit that one at the buzzer, leaning and double-clutching. Curry looked awful on the next-to-last possession too, so frustrating.

By: A Knicks Fan

A Knicks Fan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:14:05 +0000

This is a list of the best current NBA point guards:

10. Chauncey Billups
9. Jason Terry
8. Stephon Marbury
7. Nate Robinson (he’s my fav)
6. Deron Williams
5. Larry Hughes
4. T.J. Ford
3. Chris Paul
2. Jason Kidd
1. Steve Nash

But of course that’s just coming from MY prospective…Nobody cares about MY opinion. And I’m really disappointed about tonight’s loss (3/16/07) They had THREE attempts to tie or win…That can’t happen. And they can’t let the other team come from 18 points behind. Oh well. What’s done is done.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:14:22 +0000

I remember it was close and late in one of the games in the last month, and Jamal had an open look for a mid-range jumper, and Clyde yelled “Shoot it!”

I love home-team bias. National broadcast teams are just so boring. Kenny Smith is definitely a great #2 for MSG.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:12:39 +0000

Bill Raftery is the best, sadly he mostly does college these days. Clyde is better than he used to be certainly, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement there.

“ONIONS!”

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:48:27 +0000

“Could one be so bad an announcer as to invalidate their entire Hall-of-Fame playing career?”

This reminds me… anyone remember that article blasting Clyde as an awful announcer? Anyone agree that he might be the best out right now?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:03:32 +0000

I’d take prime David Robinson over O’Neal, Russell, and Walton any day of the week. He was one of the league’s best scorers and one of the best defenders. The other 3 were only ever great at one of the two, and average to bad at the other.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:33:35 +0000

I don’t find the stats/capitalism comparison in poor taste. That’s hypersensitivity, I think.

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But should we just discard all statistics because it gives a few players the short end of the stick? That would be like eliminating capitalism because of the poor.
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I also do think it’s a bad analogy, since capitalism leaves many more than a “few” (try majority) of its players with the short end of the stick.

But that’s a discussion for another board.

By: Captain Bringdown

Captain Bringdown — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:29:44 +0000

Aside..

I couldn’t just let this sit – can I say that I find the whole basketball stats-to-capitalism analogy in poor taste? Dealing with poverty is a much more pressing need than fairly evaluating Raja Bell’s contribution on a basketball court, and your comment comes off as kind of glib.

Seems to me that capitalism and statistical analysis are both first and foremost tools, a means to an end, each (in their own way) terribly effective at what they do well, and terribly ineffective at what they do poorly. We should, it seems to me, try to reduce the negative consequences of each to get something finely polished and supremely versatile, not just “live with the deficiencies.” Just struck me the wrong way.

/poli sci whining

Great site, though.

By: dave crockett

dave crockett — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:19:00 +0000

“Could one be so bad an announcer as to invalidate their entire Hall-of-Fame playing career?

I think Bill Walton can.”

Never in a million years would I go on record defending Bill Walton as an analyst. I mean, I rarely hit mute on a game but when he’s on…

Having said that, when I lived in Arizona Walton would do some college games for FoxSportsNet. He adopts a very different on air persona for the college game. I found the difference stunning. He knows he’s being an a-hole on the NBA telecasts. But he seems to be less ridiculously critical of the college kids and more committed to providing insight.