The Hawks are still soaring thanks to some amazing wings.
Dre looks at how the Atlanta Hawks are still flying high without Al Horford.
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January 2012
An NBA history lesson: How to lose with style starring the Denver Nuggets
Dre looks for tandems that managed to put up a 50 point game and a 20 rebound game and still come out behind.
How not to compare players starring Kyrie Irving and LeBron James
Dre looks at how saying LeBron James and Kyrie Irving are similar rookies is a bad comparison when you actually compare them.
Which teams did best in terms of extensions
I used Dave’s numbers for the WP48 and Wins Produced numbers from 2009, 2010 and 2011 2012 numbers are from the NBA Geek and valid through January 26th 2012 Points per game from Basketball-Reference. Zach Lowe has a great piece over at the Point Forward summing up which teams extended …
Flip Gets the Blame…Again
In what can only be described as an act of desperation, the Washington Wizards fired third year coach Flip Saunders after an abysmal 2-15 start. Firing coaches seems to be all the rage in big money sports these days. The reasoning behind it is simple: firing a coach is a …
Did Toronto beat Phoenix because of the Bargnani effect?
via http://blog.raptors.com Recently I read Tom Liston’s article over on Raptors Republic. While he completes the article with two comments that I agree with — that Gary Forbes should see more playing time and that DeMar DeRozan takes too many long jumpers — at the very top of the article …
Was the Melo trade really that lopsided?
New York is doing terribly. Of course last season after they traded for Melo they didn’t do too hot but most people didn’t notice as the Knicks managed to make the playoffs and Amare was able to score lots of points. Melo is getting a decent share of the blame …
Are the Jazz winning because they have the best power forward in the NBA?
The Utah Jazz played four games in December. Of these, three were losses. Furthermore, the Jazz were out-scored by 54 points in these four contests. Given these results, the mood in Utah wasn’t too good as 2012 began. Once the calender turned to 2012, though, something happened with the Jazz. …
Is Kyrie Irving a better rookie than Chris Paul or LeBron James?
He’s no Chris Paul Over at TrueHoop today, Justin Havens asked the following question: Irving better than Paul, LeBron as rookie? Justin answered his own question by comparing each player’s rookie PER. Among all rookies who played a minimum of 2000 minutes, Irving’s PER is the eighth-best mark in the three-point era. …
How Much Do the Tigers Lose Without Victor Martinez? Lee Panas — of Tiger Tales — Provides the Answer
Fans of the Detroit Tigers entered the off-season fairly optimistic about the 2012 season. The Tigers won 95 games in 2011 and took the Central Division by 15 games. In the playoffs, the Tigers defeated the Yankees (always a good thing) before losing in six to the Texas Rangers in …