John Hollinger's headliner article about NBA records that may fall includes the suggestion that Allen Iverson may prove to be -- even having gone to college, and played in an era of slower paced ball -- the most prolific chucker the NBA has ever known: "One other record has a greater than 50-50 shot at falling in the next few years: John Havlicek's record for career field goal misses, which stands at 13,417. Havlicek's mark is under assault from both Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant. Bryant has a 69.5 percent shot, but Iverson is likely to get there first -- he's at 71.3 percent. There's a decent chance that within half a decade Hondo will be down to third on the list."
Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News: "Obviously Shaq can't play against a fast team like the Warriors. He's not so good against sorta-fast teams or medium-fast teams or good young teams. He's only been good against one teamold slow good San Antonio. Shaq had Al Harrington guarding him. And then Austin Croshere and a little Andris Biedrins. One on one. No double-teaming. Shaq should've dominated that. Old, fat Shaq still should've dominated. He didn't. He threw his elbows, cried, and got pulled. Then the Suns played better. Funny how Mike D'Antoni bristled when asked if Shaq would come back in during the fourth quarter despite his five fouls. OF COURSE! D'Antoni said. Oops. No more Shaq. 'Cause Phoenix actually had to win the game. Phoenix is in trouble, I don't care that the Suns won tonight." UPDATE: TrueHoop reader Noah counters by pointing out that the Suns were +9 when O'Neal was on the floor. That was third best on the Suns, and one point better than Steve Nash.
Tom Ziller of Sactown Royalty, on yet another tough night for the Blazers and Brandon Roy against big Ron Artest: "Ron-Ron is deep deep into Brandon Roy's head. A few months ago, folks made big noise about the way Roy plays with the ball -- kind-of deliberate, mixing speeds, fooling his defender instead of blowing by every time. Ron-Ron does not fall for those tricks, I guess. Artest had six steals; Roy had five turnovers."
Mike Zarren is a brilliant and insightful guy who has a hand in a lot of front office stuff -- from statistics to the law -- for the Celtics. He wrote a detailed explanation of what actually happens when teams make trades for the team's official website. What must be negotiated? What happens on that trade call with the league? Very interesting.
The anatomy of a bad NBA team, with a little PG-13 language, as can be expected from a man whose emotions ride with the Clippers.
Mark Cuban just can't accept that the word "blog" could have any meaning other than the one that he assigned it. I've said it a hundred times: printing presses used to be bible machines. Blogs were once gossipy news from home. But times change, and both are publishing tools that can be used for anything.
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