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Game of the Week: Memphis Grizzlies at Oklahoma City Thunder
This is a big one. This game matches Oklahoma City’s league-best offense against Memphis’ league-best defense. It’s as big as a January game gets. Let’s get into it. Key Players I’ve already poured out my love for Marc Gasol in our All-Star roundtable, so I’ll focus on the other Grizzlies big man, Zach Randolph. If you watch Z-Bo under the boards, you understand why he’s such a strong rebounder. He’s as physical as anyone … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Los Angeles Clippers at Oklahoma City
There is one NBA game on national television this week. That makes it easy to pick a game of the week, but it’s pretty lame. There are no games, national or otherwise, on Thanksgiving. That is extremely lame. For some reason it’s become traditional to watch football on the best holiday of the year. I don’t want to do that. I realize the NFL is a big bull to fight, but to not even try … Continue reading
Video Playbook: Versatility in Memphis
What a week it was in Memphis. In the span of eight days the Grizzlies won four in a row, including wins against the Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder and the New York Knicks. The Grizzlies have now won eight straight since their opening night loss to the Clippers and currently have the best record in the entire NBA. Over the past few seasons the Grizzlies have climbed back to relevance with stifling defense … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Memphis at Oklahoma City
Game of the Week, in which I preview the best matchup available on national television, returns after a brief hiccup: A hurricane, Election day and a nor’easter pulled me away from watching basketball to do my actual job as a journalist. I won’t let it happen again. I didn’t have television for a while, but I managed to watch basketball at my local Hooters. It was a beacon of warmth and beer and chicken and breasts in … Continue reading
Video Playbook: Tony Parker’s Game Winner
Last year Jordan Kahn (@AyoItsJordan) was a staple of the basketball coverage here at Hickory-High with a series of masterful video playbook pieces breaking down all sorts of NBA nuances. Jordan may be back occasionally this season but has also moved on to contribute at Bullets Forever and the brand-new site, HoopChalk. This leaves a void in our video breakdown department, one that I will be clumsily attempting to fill. I would humbly posit … Continue reading
NBA Anti-Awards: 2012-2013 Pre-Season Picks
The NBA regular season will be here in just a few days. Now that the preseason is winding down and rotations have taken shape it’s time to take a look at the NBA Anti-Awards. These Awards recognize some of the worst and most discouraging on-court achievements. Here’s how they may shake out this year. ________________________________________________________________________________ The Shawn Bradley Award – This award goes to the player 6’10″ or taller who has had the highest percentage … Continue reading
Offensive Outcomes
A look at the raw Synergy data from my Offensive Geometry post. This is an analysis, with sortable data, of all different individual offensive outcomes from this season. Continue reading
DREW: Picking On Player Ratings
Kyle Soppe unveils a new system for picking the playoffs. Continue reading
2012 NBA Anti-Awards
Season ending awards for some of the worst and most discouraging achievements from this NBA season. Continue reading
Oklahoma City and Dallas: Game 1 Video Playbook
A look at what went wrong for the Mavericks down the stretch of Game One against the Thunder. Continue reading
