Wednesday, May 13, 2009

2 Intriguing NBA Results and more...

Last night had everything....a late-game meltdown, a 40-point statement blowout, and even an umpiring massacre in a Braves game...
  • Boston comes back from 14 down in the 4th to beat Orlando.... Let me say this now... Doc Rivers absolutely destroyed Stan Van Gundy late in that game... Stan got tight and coached as much... Doc even managed to ride Steph Marbury to 12 in the 4th, and executed 2 separate "foul while up 3" circumstances late in the game (the ONLY defensible thing to do).... but in the end, this is a crushing blow to Orlando's chances to win this series and while I don't agree with Dwight Howard saying it so publicly, they flat-out HAVE to start getting him the ball more, and he was absolutely correct on the substitution patterns (namely the inexplicable Redick-for-Pietrus sub late)... Just a wild night
  • 7 guys in double figures... 32% defensive FG percentage... a realization that Derek Fisher can't guard Aaron Brooks... rebounding and turnover advantages....just some of the reason's LA pounded Houston by 40... yes, 40...points last night... There's not a whole lot of analysis needed....
  • Warning: Homer-ism.... That being said...the Braves got jobbed last night... Carlos Beltran was thrown out at 3rd while trying to steal while the Braves led 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th...he was called safe, then one pitch later he was sacrificed to the plate for the tie...and the Braves subsequently lost in the 10th...now, I won't rant and rave on the 3-2, 2 out bases loaded walk to Beltran in the 10th that won the game... it was a borderline pitch and it was in New York...fine... but the base-running call....no excuse
  • Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell (author of "Outliers" and other things) are engaging in an epic e-mail interview/argument/etc. on ESPN.com this week...check it out...
  • Jason Taylor returns to Miami....not something I would have foreseen after the less than amicable divorce between him and Parcells...but he'll look right in that uniform...
That'll do it

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