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Comment on Early estimate: 2012-12 Milwaukee Bucks will go 42-40 by Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:00:51 +0000

Have you been following preseason this year?
Obviously, it’s not a great indicator of future performance, but it was exciting to see Henson play well prior to his injury, for us folks who were fans of the pick.

Comment on My numbers say the Dwight Howard Lakers won’t be dominant by jbrett

jbrett — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:32:07 +0000

Thanks for checking. Do you think Meeks is much of an improvement for LA?

Comment on My numbers say the Dwight Howard Lakers won’t be dominant by Ty Willihnganz

Ty Willihnganz — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:59:52 +0000

I’ve got Childress for 2.8 wins and 2.9 losses over the last two seasons with Phoenix. Basketball-Reference, with their Win Shares system, has him for 2.3 wins, which would mean he would be responsible for 3.4 losses.

Comment on My numbers say the Dwight Howard Lakers won’t be dominant by Ty Willihnganz

Ty Willihnganz — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:50:02 +0000

yeah, let me look. He was in Italy for a number of years, but there should be at least two seasons on him… I know he’s a big hit over at the WoW Journal.

Comment on My numbers say the Dwight Howard Lakers won’t be dominant by jbrett

jbrett — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:22:42 +0000

Yes, Meeks signed yesterday, approx. 2 yr/ 3M. Ty, my personal crusade this offseason is Josh Childress; does your system have any data on him?

Comment on My numbers say the Dwight Howard Lakers won’t be dominant by Ty Willihnganz

Ty Willihnganz — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:49:58 +0000

He’s with the Lakers??

Comment on My numbers say the Dwight Howard Lakers won’t be dominant by bballpants

bballpants — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:08:00 +0000

you add jodie meeks in yet?

Comment on Coach K could blow the Olympics by J.D. Mo

J.D. Mo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:06:52 +0000

Watching yesterday’s Argentina game on the DVD and the point about needing to be bigger does stick out. Tyson Chandler’s an overrated defender, nowhere near as impactful as Hibbert or a healthy Dwight, Bynum or Garnett. He’s not bad, no, just kinda average, not a deserving DPOY by any means. Like 2004, what we’re seeing is the effect of not bringing your best players to the Olympics, though, on one hand, there wasn’t much choice because of the health issues the bigs have. On the other hand some of this is by design. That is Mike D’Antoni and not Tom Thibodeaux who’s sitting on the Team USA bench as an assistant, and this team plays defense when Lebron, Kobe, CP3 and Chandler decide to turn up the screws — then and and only then because the coaches are kinda clueless on that end of the court. Doug Collins spent a lot of time harping on it in the 4th quarter, and I’m sure Doc Rivers will continue on that theme when it’s over.

Comment on Coach K could blow the Olympics by Shareef

Shareef — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:13:11 +0000

Hubris much? Frank McGuire and Dean Smith brought possession based analysis to basketball. Perhaps Coach K, whose place on the Mount Rushmore of coaching is assured, has found out some truths about basketball, as he blew out some of those NC teams, that have escaped your slide ruler.

Comment on Coach K could blow the Olympics by J.D. Mo

J.D. Mo — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:10:15 +0000

Grant Hill was pretty good, still is. And guys like Reddick, Dunleavy Jr., Carlos Boozer and Kyrie Irving are good pro ballers within their limitations. I’m no great Coach K fan but I think he gets unfairly criticized on this point, like Izzo or Bo Ryan. College coaches get too much credit and blame. In any case, Saturday stopped dead in its tracks talk that the 2012 team is anywhere near as good the Dream Team. Can you imagine a team with Patrick Ewing and David Robinson in the middle allowing a team to shoot 63% on two-pointers? Maybe in practice to Jordan, Stockton, Barkley and Malone, …if they were all hot on the same day.