Comments on: Knicks 88, Pacers 76

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:20:09 +0000

Also, sole possession of first place in the East! I wish Brooklyn would start losing more games, though. I want that lead in the Atlantic to be a lot bigger than two games.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:18:23 +0000

Also, the Yankees re-signed Kuroda today! Woohoo! A doubly great New York sports day!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:17:49 +0000

Another blowout win. Awesome! Good write-up, Kevin! I know these write-ups must be kind of hard when all the superlatives have been used with previous wins, so I appreciate the hard work you’re doing coming up with new stuff!

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:13:16 +0000

massive: According to WP/48

please can we stop using this, please. please.

By: massive

massive — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:13:31 +0000

In other news, Anthony Davis will not be playing tonight. I was looking forward to watching him play against Tyson Chandler.

By: massive

massive — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:10:33 +0000

Toney Douglas getting minutes on an NBA roster speaks more about their decision makers than it speaks about the players behind him. According to WP/48, Toney Douglas has been the 15th worst basketball player in the NBA. Let’s say there are 500 players available (according to NBA Rankings). That means there are 485 better basketball players in the NBA. 15*30=450, so that leaves 35 players not on NBA rosters who should be playing instead of Toney Douglas lol. And when you consider that Josh Smith, Ersan Ilyasova, Andrea Bargnani, Klay Thompson and Mike Beasley are all below him at this point in the NBA season (I would bet that all of them have better seasons than him), you see how ridiculous it is that Toney Douglas still gets minutes lol.

By: Juany8

Juany8 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:47:28 +0000

Toney Douglas is the worst NBA player in the league. I don’t know if Machado will actually be good, but I do know that you can’t be worse than Toney Douglas. At this point I’d take Derek Fisher if he’d be willing to come to Houston, Toney Douglas is the most astonishingly bad basketball player I have ever seen get serious minutes. I wonder If he just lights it up and runs everything perfectly in practice, there’s no explanation for why he gets so much leeway, the other night he played OT instead of Lin!!!!

By: johnno

johnno — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:26:37 +0000

massive: No because Jeremy Lin also went undrafted, spent time on a D-League, and was benched in favor of Toney Douglas.

But, if you remember, based on the last 25 games of the 2010-2011 season, a lot of people (including me) thought that the Toney Douglas Lin was sitting behind was a pretty good player. Other than Toney Douglas's family, there aren't a whole lot of people who think that the Toney Douglas Machado is sitting behind is even a competent NBA player.

By: massive

massive — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:16:54 +0000

johnno: If not one team in the entire NBA thought that a guy wasn’t worth a second round draft pick, and he is in the D-League because he can’t beat out Toney Douglas, of all people, for minutes, don’t you think that it’s at least possible that he’s not an NBA caliber point guard?

No because Jeremy Lin also went undrafted, spent time on a D-League, and was benched in favor of Toney Douglas.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:08:53 +0000

johnno: If not one team in the entire NBA thought that a guy wasn’t worth a second round draft pick, and he is in the D-League because he can’t beat out Toney Douglas, of all people, for minutes, don’t you think that it’s at least possible that he’s not an NBA caliber point guard?

Highly likely, but with Toney, it's a certainty.