Troy Daniels had a feeling. “I was gonna hit a big shot,” Daniels said after hitting the game-winning shot against Portland in game 3. “I didn’t know when, I didn’t know where but I’m happy to hit it tonight.” With the scores tied and only 11.9 seconds remaining in overtime (and only 2 seconds left on the shot clock), Daniels… Read more →
The AFL has taken many things from the game of basketball. Numerous advancements in the way of football scouting, science, terminology and strategy have come from basketball. Screening and zones are two of the major borrowed (stolen?) strategies in recent years. There is however still a major difference in how the games are coached. It has baffled me for years… Read more →
2014 NBA Playoffs… Spurs v Mavs… Game 1 in San Antonio. With just under 8 minutes to go in the 4th quarter the Mavs led by 10 points on the road with a chance to steal home court advantage from the regular season’s best team. It wasn’t to be. The Spurs came back, made a run and closed out the… Read more →
Grizz (Tommy Greer) and Tizz (Liam Santamaria) break down all the action from the first few days of the NBA Playoffs.
Shot Clock Madness in Toronto As a result of what team officials called a “signal path failure,” the 24-second clocks and game clocks above both baskets broke down midway through the third quarter of Toronto’s 94-87 loss to the Brooklyn Nets. Hilariously, the backup clocks were reliant on the same signal path and therefore didn’t work either. A score-bench official… Read more →
In his 2009 ’Book of Basketball’ Bill Simmons posed the following question: If Earth had to play a game against basketball-playing Martians with the future of mankind on the line, and we could use a time machine to get any players we wanted from throughout history… what would be the best basketball team we could possibly assemble to save Earth… Read more →
We’re here! We made it! After the 1,230 games that make up the NBA’s regular season, the 2014 NBA Playoffs tip off tomorrow and as legendary Sacramento Kings announcer Grant Napear likes to say, “If you don’t like that, you don’t like NBA basketball!” Only 16 teams remain in contention for this year’s championship. Tankapalooza is over and, in its… Read more →
I grew up in a mixed AFL family, in which all five of us supported different teams. Not long ago, I asked my brother whether he was going to follow in the footsteps of our parents and allow his eldest to choose his own team, or if the kid was going to be like so many others and have his… Read more →
Being a GM is not easy. There is a reason so many come and go each year in the Association. Joe Dumars is the latest casualty having resigned this week in Detroit after a horrific run since that 04 Championship. If you ask me, he got lucky that year and has been living on borrowed time ever since. Other GMs… Read more →
Joakim Noah is the best center in basketball. The numbers – season averages of 12.5 points, 11.2 boards, 5.3 dimes, 1.5 blocks and 1.2 steals – tell only part of the story. Noah has put the Bulls on his back since losing Rose and then Deng and has refused to allow the Windy City to fall into mediocrity. In fact,… Read more →