After a near three hour basketball game between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers, all types of people were chiming in on the tactic Rockets Head Coach Kevin McHale used early and often throughout the first half. Game 4 between the Rockets and Clippers would have certainly exceeded the three hour mark had it not been for a dominating second half performance by the Clippers, propelling them to a 128-95 victory. Continue reading
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NBA Notebook: Hack-a-player, All-Star 2015 and Trade Deadline Moves
My NBA Notebook is back just in time for the All-Star Break! I will use this notebook format to quickly touch on various topics from around the Association. Sorry ZML fans, I know it’s been a while. On this notebook page I will touch on four topics: All-Star Weekend, players I am 99 percent sure will be traded before the February 19 deadline and the Hack-A-Player. Continue reading
It’s Time for the NBA to Cure the Flopping Epidemic
You can turn on just about any basketball game nowadays, college or professional, and see someone on the court think he is on Broadway and act his way into an offensive foul. It is like it has become an infectious disease that everyone that plays basketball has caught with no known way to cure it.
A flop is, as defined in a press release by the NBA last year: Continue reading