February 2011

TRADE DEADLINE EDITION • So the Carmelo Anthony deal is consummated, and you have to think that the New York Knicks won, and won big on the deal. As a rule of thumb, whoever lands the best player in a NBA trade, is the winner of the trade. The game of chicken played by Denver to [...]

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Calm the *bleep* down

by Alfredo Arteaga on February 15, 2011

You can still hear the teeth gnashing and moans of despair from what transpired at TD Garden on Sunday versus the Boston Celtics. What transpired was a combination of terrible shooting, bad decision making, and poor passing at times with a sprinkle of terrible officiating. These things happen. In a game on the road versus [...]

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● As I write this, James Jones is shooting 43% from three and has made 93 of them. Yet, he was lobbied for by the Miami Heat coaching staff for inclusion into the 3-point contest. Just an oversight I am sure, but considering that over 30 guys get nominated by their teams every year, just making the [...]

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Much has been made of the Miami Heat’s offense this season and what is percieved at times to be a mash of isolation plays. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Heat employs four simple concepts with many variations from those sets to form a rather elaborate, difficult to defend set of plays, if [...]

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