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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: What's Wrong With Allen Iverson?

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. What's Wrong With Allen Iverson? I've been pretty savage in my treatment of Allen Iverson here. Anyway, Iverson has, for a variety of reasons, been considerably less effective this year than in seasons past. He's never posted a high Win score, but in another advanced statistical measure of player performance, PER, he's always been pretty good. In fact, last year's PER of 21.06 justified his annual All Star selection. View my complete profile.

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Gooden, Smith, Moore, and the Celtics' Mistake

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Monday, March 2, 2009. Gooden, Smith, Moore, and the Celtics' Mistake. Another big the Celtics could have had instead of Mikki Moore becomes available. Mikki Moore, whom the Celtics signed when they grew tired of waiting for Gooden or Smith to become available, doesn't compare to either of these vets, both of whom perform at about league average. His PER this year is an anemic 8.56, following an almost-as-dreadful 11.67 last season. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: John Hollinger on Brandon Roy

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Friday, March 6, 2009. John Hollinger on Brandon Roy. There's lot's of good stuff in this John Hollinger piece on Brandon Roy. Brandon Roy is just the opposite of this. As Hollinger points out, he may not look spectacular to the naked eye, but he gets the job done. He scores efficiently, and he doesn't turn the ball over. So, when Roy is on your team, your chances of scoring on each possession have gone up. But what most impressed me was this quote:. Subscribe to: Post ...

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Bad News for Amar'e Stoudamire and the Suns

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Friday, March 6, 2009. Bad News for Amar'e Stoudamire and the Suns. Despite early hopes that Amar'e Stoudamire might be able to recover from surgery to repair his torn retina in time for the playoffs, it is now clear that he won't. That is a huge psychological blow for the Suns, who recently picked up Stromile Swift to help them down the stretch. It is also, no doubt, a huge psychological blow for Stoudamire, who has already come back from microfracture surgery. Stoudem...

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Another Improbable Pistons Win

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Another Improbable Pistons Win. Last night the Detroit Pistons beat their former point guard's new team, the Denver Nuggets, 100-95. It was their third straight win, and their third straight win against a much better team. Before Allen Iverson (who I'm sure I've picked on too much here - as I noted yesterday. The good news for Carmelo's fans is that his drop off in production has been mostly due to missing shots. His other numbers - especia...

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Appreciating Joe Smith

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Monday, March 2, 2009. Consequently, now that he has been released by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Smart teams are interested in acquiring him for their playoff runs. As a Celtics fan, I wish the Cs would have held off on signing the very unproductive Mikki Moore so that they could pick him up, but they must have had some reason to believe that the Thunder weren't going to buy him out. Well, they were wrong, and he's available. So who is going to get him? I'm a former min...

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: February 2009

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Friday, February 27, 2009. Starbury and the Celts: Can He Help? David Berri makes a few good points here. Stephon Marbury, by contrast, is by this measure a below average NBA player. An inefficient scorer who takes a lot of shots and turns the ball over is a player who creates a great many empty possessions, and thus hurts his team's chances of winning. Finally, since Marbury - while a below average player at this point in his career - has some NBA-level skills and is s...

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Gooden to the Spurs?

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Monday, March 2, 2009. Gooden to the Spurs? This should be the final basketball observation for the day. John Hollinger predicts. That the Cavs will pick up Joe Smith, and the Spurs will pick up Drew Gooden. He rightly notes that Gooden would be a strange pickup for the Spurs: "The guy who's known for mental errors and has a medusa beard, signing on with the league's must buttoned-down, no-nonsense outfit? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Suns and Warriors Put On a Show (And Demonstrate Why Pace Matters)

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Monday, March 16, 2009. Suns and Warriors Put On a Show (And Demonstrate Why Pace Matters). No word yet on the state of the scoreboard. Technicians are working around the clock trying to revive it. It could last be heard muttering, "There will be no rematch."). But was their defense as bad as the scoreboard makes it look? Offensive and defensive performance is generally measured purely by points scored and points allowed. At least by non-geeks. But we geeks have...The D...

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Sandalstraps' Basketball Blog: Kentucky's Senior Night Defense Worse Than VMI Game?

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The young theologian as hoop-head. Thursday, March 5, 2009. Kentucky's Senior Night Defense. During last night's debacle. I shouted to anyone who would listen (and maybe a few people who wouldn't) that I hadn't seen this Kentucky team play defense this poorly since the VMI game. That started this season on such a sad note. But the case could be made that last night's defense was. Than Kentucky's defense against the VMI team that shredded the Cats for 111 points. As I already noted. LeBron James played te...