Last night in Philadelphia, the Celtics found themselves down one with 6.6 seconds left on the clock. We have seen this situation many times in the past, where the ball always seems to find it’s way into the hands of either Paul Pierce or Ray Allen for the chance to win the game.
But last night, both teams played small lineups for most of the game, as Shaquille O’Neal and Jermaine O’Neal were inactive for the Celtics. Read More »
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Darren Collison has been underwhelming, to say the least, so far this season. He’s only playing 28:30 per game and is averaging around 14/3/4, which is tolerable at best. While it shouldn’t be an enormous surprise that coach Jim O’Brien has opted to give T.J. Ford enough minutes and consequently strangle his potential for fantasy stardom, it would certainly be a surprise if the young point guard doesn’t improve as the season wears on. Give him time to get a better grasp of that offense, get healthier and win over his coach – he still stands a decent shot at getting closer to meeting expectations before the season’s up. Read More »
Everyone wants to get inside the head of Ron Artest – not just his psychiatrist. And the latest person to do so is ESPN.com’s Rick Reilly. While jetting around Los Angeles with Ron for a day, Ron talks about a lot of things, but the one that stuck out to me the most is the fact that after playing 99 games with the Lakers over the past two seasons, he still doesn’t understand the Triangle offense. Read More »
Last night was almost a perfect night for basketball in Philadelphia. Up in North Philly, the Temple Owls scored an upset win over No. 9 Georgetown — coach Fran Dunphy‘s 400th career victory — that ended with the home fans storming the court. Had the 76ers been able to hang on for one last defensive stop and beat the Celtics in their first national TV home game in what seemed like forever, Philly would be the talk of the basketball world this morning.
College or pro, Ramone Moore was the city’s star of the night. Temple’s 6-4 junior guard dropped 30 points against G’town, hitting 12-of-18 from the field and scoring 44 percent of the Owls’ total output (68 points). Read More »
NBA League Pass junkies can testify this much about the Philadelphia 76ers: They’re mostly brutal to watch. But stick them on national TV, and suddenly the Sixers are playing instant classics while their building is jumping like it was during Allen Iverson‘s prime … OK, so maybe Sixers/Celtics last night wasn’t a classic — we just watched Celtics/Lakers from 1984 in the Dime office and that’s a hell of a high standard — but it was a back and forth, down to the wire thriller that was decided by the stars … All along you were waiting for the Celtics to flip the BEAST switch and turn it into a rout, like when they went on an 11-0 run to close the third quarter, but the Sixers hung tough down to the last second. Read More »
Thanks to our friends in South Beach, check out the 2010-11 Miami Heat Player Intro Video. For those of y’all that can’t make it down for a game, it’s the next best thing.
One week ago, the NBA’s most endearing underdogs ran into a 6-8, 260-pound brick wall wearing a headband.
Before last Thursday’s meeting with LeBron James and his Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers were 7-10. Today, the Cavs are 7-15. They haven’t cracked triple-digits on the scoreboard since Nov. 26. They’ve lost six games in a row, and only one of those by a single-digit margin. The Cavs who showed up on national TV last week were a team that didn’t have enough scorers, didn’t have enough shooters, didn’t know how to play defense, and more importantly, didn’t seem to care one way or the other. Read More »
As we told you in Smack this morning, Antoine Walker made his D-League debut last night, coming off the bench for the Idaho Stampede in their win over the Dakota Wizards. In 26 minutes, ‘Toine finished with 13 points, six boards and three dimes on 5-of-11 shooting. He missed all three of his threes, and this free throw… badly.
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