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'Trey' Daniels

‘Trey’ Daniels

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 →

AFL vs NBA: Calm Down and Coach

AFL vs NBA: Calm Down and Coach

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 →

Coaching the Rick Way

Coaching the Rick Way

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 →

Five Observations from the Opening Weekend of the NBA Playoffs

Five Observations from the Opening Weekend 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 →

Center to Save the World

Center to Save the World

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 →

Primed for the Playoffs

Primed for the Playoffs

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 →

Not Too Much To Ask

Not Too Much To Ask

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 →