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Legitmate Contenders to win the 2012 NBA Championship: Part I
Where is your favourite team in the race to win this year’s League Championship?
Ranking the Legitimate Contenders
to Win the NBA Championship
[as of Mon-Feb-06-2012]
Team
PDR
PAR
RDR
QR
QIR
WCR
ECR
Bulls
2
3
1
6
1
1
Lakers
12
5
2
19
2
1
Pacers
10
4
9
23
T-3
T-2
Heat
3
16
4
23
T-3
T-2
76ers
1
1
23
25
5
4
Blazers
4
10
12
26
T-6
T-2
Thunder
5
17
4
26...
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6 days ago
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6 days ago
Discuss
The day after the Super Bowl …
In an effort to achieve a specific goal in life, it is always difficult to try one’s very best and still come up short.
What distinguishes an authentic champion in life from everyone one else isn’t their ability to emerge victorious from the battlefield every time but, rather, their willingness to get up and start again every time after they have been beaten to the ground...
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7 days ago
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7 days ago
Delicate balance of terror
On occasion, in this life …
“There comes a time when you have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about who you are.” – Leon Riley [Pat Riley's father]
because the simple fact is …
and the real joy comes from doing what you believe is right, both, for you …
and for others, even, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds...
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8 days ago
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8 days ago
Benchmark game for Toronto Raptors
What is really at stake in tonight’s Raptors vs Wizards match-up?
This is what the current standings look like in the NBA.
12. Toronto Raptors, 7-16, .304
13. Washington Wizards, 4-18, .182
Given that these 2 teams have already played each other one time this season:
Game 1, Tue Jan 10, in Washington, [Toronto, L]
and that they will be playing 2 more times after this evening...
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10 days ago
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10 days ago
Correct way to deal with trade demands from up-coming free agents in the NBA
There are many good reasons this little corner of the net has long held that Jerry West deserves to be placed in an exalted category among NBA General Managers:
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Last season it was Carmelo Anthony. This season it’s Dwight Howard. Players who hold the threat of walking as a free agent over a team to force a trade to a destination they prefer.
Jerry West...
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10 days ago
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10 days ago
The correct answer to the key question about the 76ers …
is that:
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Justin Kubatko, of Basketball-Reference, doesn’t mess around with numbers. He doesn’t get all excited about things that don’t matter. And the other day in The New York Times he wrote:
There have been 38 teams in N.B.A. history with a point differential of at least plus-10.0 points a game through their first 18 games. The median...
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11 days ago
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11 days ago
Addition of Przybilla would secure NBA Championship for Miami Heat
As of today, the odds to win this year’s NBA Championship look like this.
However …
If there is one player who is currently on the open market that Pat Riley SHOULD try to add to his existing squad, in order to ensure that his team has the best opportunity possible to win this year’s NBA Championship, it is none other than …
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Miami...
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11 days ago
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11 days ago
Khandor’s Sports Service, Games Of The Day
Daily selections for NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB games.
KSS GOTD Selections for Wed Feb 01 2012.
Verified by Handicappers Watchdog and Free Sports Monitor.
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
ROI: The most important concept you will learn about today, or tomorrow, or beyond
David Thorpe speaks on the core concept of “Royal Jelly”
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PS. Those stats gurus who believe that “players are who they are,” simply do not understand the FUNDAMENTAL concepts of outstanding elite level coaching.
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14 days ago
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14 days ago
Thus far, Flip Saunders’ teams have demonstrated that he is not an authentic elite level basketball coach
According to certain basketball-related web sites and so-called “stats gurus” who operate them, the work of Flip Saunders has not been the main source of the different problems experienced by the Washington Wizards during his tenure with the team:
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Flip Gets the Blame … Again
The Wizards are really, really bad this year. Because of the team’s...
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18 days ago
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18 days ago
Raptors need to stay the course with DeRozan
If the Raptors actual intent this season is to try to win as many games as possible, then, Dwane Casey needs to make an adjustment in his current starting line-up.
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Casey considers changes
Following Sunday’s loss in Los Angeles, a game that was once again dominated and all but determined by a listless first-quarter Raptors performance, Casey is no longer...
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20 days ago
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20 days ago
ROI: The People’s Champ is STILL here …
Muhammad Ali at 70: What he meant, what he means
Muhammad Ali’s brilliance was not that he was an antiwar prophet. He wasn’t Malcolm X in boxing gloves, debating foreign policy between rounds, jabbing his hands and then saying, “So how about that Cuban missile crisis.” But unlike the Ivy League advisors who made up the “best and the brightest”...
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26 days ago
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26 days ago
Wizards need to get W against Raptors this evening
When you look at the early schedule for the Washington Wizards what you should see:
DATE
Home Team
Home Line
Away Team
Result
W-L Rec
Top Scorer
Top Rebounder
Top Assists
Mon, Dec 26
Washington Wizards
-4.5
New Jersey Nets
L, 84-90
0-1
Young/16
Blatche/10
Wall/5
Wed, Dec 28
Atlanta Hawks *
-9
Washington Wizards
L, 83-101
0-2
Young/21
McGee/12...
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January 10, 2012
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January 10, 2012
Understanding how the Pistons were demolished by the Bulls last night
This is the Box Score and the Play-By-Play for last night’s game between the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls.
This is the GameFlow Chart.
When you look at the different combinations Lawrence Frank used at the Point Guard and Off Guard positions in this game:
PG
OG
Start Time
End Time
Duration
Differential
Knight
Gordon
Q1, 12:00
Q1, 03:02
08:58
-9
Bynum
Gordon...
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January 10, 2012
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January 10, 2012
Tebow Magic, Wild Card style …
It really is quite simple …
… if you understand what makes “winning teams” fundamentally different from “losing teams” …
… and, IT has nothing to do with an “individual player’s performance-based statistics”.
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January 09, 2012
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January 09, 2012
Sound ROI: Raptors to get home W vs injury-depleted Nets
If there is going to be 1 home game on their regular season schedule this year that the Raptors will most definitely come away with a W it will be this evening’s contest against the Nets:
Pos.TORONTO
RAPTORSADVNEW JERSEY
NETSPos.
STARTERS
PGCalderonFarmarPG
OGBarbosa<--StevensonOG
SFButler<--Sha-WilliamsSF/PF
PFDavis<--J-WilliamsPF...
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January 06, 2012
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January 06, 2012
It’s the ‘coach’ who needs to be held accountable for the on-court conduct of his players
On occasion, certain highly charged – and mis-directed – young men can, unfortunately, make the mistake of acting like an out-of-control adolescent without the knowledge of the actual difference between right and wrong.
In this specific instance, however …
The person who MOST needs to be held accountable for the egregious repeated on-court actions of Masters Cole...
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January 06, 2012
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January 06, 2012
After brief illness, legenedary sports essayist, Jim Huber, passes away
1944-2012
The world of sport is a less rich place today without the presence of storyteller extraordinaire Jim Huber.
TNT/CNN Tribute
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January 04, 2012
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January 04, 2012
Will Bynum filling proper role with Pistons, at last
There has been a very good reason why the Detroit Pistons have under-achieved for the last few seasons:
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Will Bynum currently out of Pistons’ rotation
Pistons coach Lawrence Frank has chose to go with a three-guard lineup of Rodney Stuckey, Ben Gordon and Brandon Knight...
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January 03, 2012
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January 03, 2012
Initial Assessment of Team Rosters in NBA’s Eastern Conference
There are three main phases to the game of basketball:
i. Offense;
ii. Defense; and,
iii. Rebounding.
Developing an accurate understanding of the overall NBA talent which exists on the roster for each team at the beginning of the season is a fundamental aspect of properly evaluating the day-to-day goings-on across the league over the course of the season.
INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF TEAM...
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January 03, 2012
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January 03, 2012
Whenever Coach Pop speaks, others should listen intently
Rubio’s fourth quarter poise gets noticed
On the merits of the T-Wolves’ increased use of the Pick-and-Roll:
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After Monday’s morning shootaround Popovich talked at some length about his impressions of Rubio and the retooled Wolves lineup.
“There are a...
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January 03, 2012
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January 03, 2012
Raptors in near perfect ‘Win-Loss-Win’ situation vs Knicks this evening
The Toronto Raptors might not find themselves in a better “road win”, or “close road loss,” situation for the rest of this season than what should exist for their contest this evening against the New York Knicks:
Pos.Toronto RaptorsADVNEW YORK KNICKSPos.
STARTERS
PGCalderon>AnthonySF
PFA/Johnson<--HarrellsonPF
CBargnani...
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January 02, 2012
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January 02, 2012
Khandor’s Sports Service, Games Of The Day
Daily selections for NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB games.
KSS GOTD Selections for Sun Jan 01 2011.
Verified by Handicappers Watchdog and Free Sports Monitor.
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January 01, 2012
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January 01, 2012
Initial Assessment of Eastern Conference Rosters in the NBA
Properly assessing the talent level of opening rosters in the NBA’s Eastern Conference:
4th
1st
7th
3rd
2nd
5th
8th
6th
11th
10th
13th
12th
9th
15th
14th
MIA
CHI
BOS
ORL
ATL
IND
MIL
PHI
NYK
DET
TOR
CLE
WAS
CHA
NJN
STARTERS
Mario
Chalmers
7
Derrick
Rose
14
Rajon
Rondo
13
Jameer
Nelson
12
Jeff
Teague
6
Darren
Collison
5
Brandon
Jennings...
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December 26, 2011
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December 26, 2011
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