- Shaq and the wife might be on the mend.
- A great breakdown of the Nuggets and why they're so dangerous... to themselves.
- Have I mentioned Pau Gasol eats the souls of children?
- Pacers fans buy your jerseys now.
- Goodnight, Dubs, and thanks for all the memories.
- A look back at the 2008 Playoffs.
- Whoops. Turns out Chris Paul might not be good at defense. At all.
- Mark Madsen: So dreamy.
- The Mavs on the defensive end.
- I love this nickname for Dominic McGuire.
- You're not going to believe this, so hold on. This actually ends with a destruction of Chris Paul's merits and an argument for Kobe for MVP and insinuates that any other vote is ridiculous. I know. I couldn't believe it either.
- So you can start planning.
- I find this look at the Hawks' offense fascinating, if only for how simple it is. That won't cut it in the playoffs.
- Coro's award picks.
- Stern may have carried the olympic torch.
- Hey, let's kick a guy while he's down!
- How things looked for the Mavs, then and now.
- Wages of Wins looks at the Bobcats' Wages of Suck.
- Screamin' A's hunger strike.
- Not looking good for a Raptors' championship.
- I would say that Kapono's release is so fast that you can't even notice him on the court. Wait. That's for different reasons.
- White guys from the draft... sucking.
- Thanks, Skeets. Because I wanted to never, ever sleep again.
- Great look at the Mavs' pace.
- The darkness may be lifting, and that brings a tear to our eyes.
- Why Michael Beasley may never hit the apex.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Great Exercises in Internet NBA-Related Postings: 4.14.08
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Even though on the surface this was a great weekend for the Lakers, I think in reality their title hopes ended before the Hornets game on Friday when Bynum had that impromptu press conference in which he basically said he's done for the year. The Lakers might have enough to make it to the Finals without him (but it's going to be incredibly difficult, especially if they have to play Phoenix at some point), but there is no way in hell the Lakers can beat Boston if Bynum isn't playing and playing well.
I think the knock on Paul's defense is overblown, just because I think PG defense is a somewhat overrated concept. If the opposing team has a PG that features someone like Nash or Paul or Williams or Parker (Tony, not Smush), you can't just throw a great defensive PG out there and expect to contain them in any way, shape or form. Occasionally there are guys like Shawn Marion or Bruce Bowen who can use their size advantage to really throw off the games of great PGs like that, but usually if a PG of that caliber is held in check it's because the whole opposing team has geared their defense to stopping them, and not because someone like Derek Fisher is either A) a tenacious defender or B) a great flopper.
Do you find Chris Paul's 16-48 shooting in the past four games to somehow be "meritorious"? If another MVP candidate, let's call him "Bean," had shot 16-48 in the past four games wouldn't a lot of people be saying that he had shot himself right out of MVP contention?
I said before these recent games that I would not base my MVP vote on just these games but I have yet to hear or read anything from all the people who trumpeted the importance of these games to the MVP race; I strongly suspect that if the "right" player had shined then we would be hearing a lot about how much these games "proved."
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