Quick Thoughts On the Chaos That Was the 2013 Draft
So, yea, last night was pretty crazy. I’m just now making sense of everything that went down. Here’s a short list of things that caught my attention. The Anthony Bennett, Sergey Karasev, Carrick...
View ArticleTheories on why you don’t like the Spurs
Check out the Spurs-Grizzlies Western Conference Finals TV ratings so far. It’s brutal. Least viewed Conference Finals since 2007. And who played in that one? Yep, those same old Spurs. One of the...
View ArticleWhen LeBron James Chooses Stats Over Team
The above picture shows LeBron James collecting a rebound with 2.7 seconds to go in the first quarter of Thursday night’s Heat-Mavs game. After James secured the rock, he jogged his dribble towards...
View ArticleWould you like Ray Allen to lie?
We desperately want to know these athletes, but we refuse to have a grownup conversation with them. We’re really too angry and jealous to be trusted with so much as a paragraph of their actual...
View ArticleHarden and the opportunity gap
There’s no way to definitively discern how good James Harden and Russell Westbrook are in relationship to one another. This post will make no effort to determine such an order of merit. But that in...
View ArticleHow to capitalize on the D-League
Alonzo Gee went from a D-Leaguer in Austin to valuable NBA rotation player for the Cavs. Last week ESPN released a series imagining what a full-blown NBA minor league might look like. Most of the...
View ArticleThe NBA’s top pick-and-roll partnerships
Dwyane Wade draws three defenders, finds Bosh rollin’ to the rim.[Note: This post is the first in a series of season preview posts here at HoopSpeak. Check back in the coming days for more on...
View ArticleHow Dwight Howard can learn from Gustavo Ayon
If you’re a true NBA junky, you should get to know Gustavo Ayon. ESPN’s Tom Haberstroh profiled Ayon’s underrated productivity while explaining why the Mexican big man will be a surprisingly effective...
View ArticleWhy the Nuggets will be a big deal
Don't look so glum, Brett believes in you! There’s been a lot of excitement in Denver since the Nuggets netted standout swingman Andre Iguodala. There’s excitement, but many are somewhat patronizing in...
View ArticleChange is Scary, Sarunas
One temperate Oakland night, probably in 1989, Golden State Warriors rookie Sarunas Marciulionis picked up his dribble and stepped sideways either to his left or his right. Suddenly, the Lithuanian...
View ArticleThe Allen Iverson paradox: Right moment, wrong time
Some strange force is taking hold of my fingers and typing words about Allen Iverson. Please send help. I wrote about him last week, and your comments were insightful as per usual. There were a few...
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