Comments on: Points in the Paint http://ballerblogger.com/2009/03/04/points-in-the-paint-19/ NBA blog Wed, 02 May 2012 15:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: xphoenix87 http://ballerblogger.com/2009/03/04/points-in-the-paint-19/comment-page-1/#comment-16507 xphoenix87 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:40:56 +0000 http://ballerblogger.com/?p=1060#comment-16507 Man, I picked a bad week to be out of the country unable to watch games and with a slow internet connection, there's been so much good NBA stuff going on. I continue to have mixed feelings about Shaq. Sometimes he comes off as a jovial guy who is smarter than he lets on, and other times he's just a jerk and an idiot. He's certainly one of the most interesting figures the game has ever seen, I just wish we got more of Good Shaq and less of Bad Shaq. Henry Abbott over at Truehoop has a fantastic series today on how officials call traveling that is an absolute must-read. I wish he'd said a bit more about the rampant switching of the pivot foot that is allowed. More than anything, that's the no-call in the NBA that makes me maddest. It's not that hard guys, you get one pivot foot, you aren't allowed to change it without dribbling. That Basketball Geek article really has some great data. I've been meaning to do something similar, but I just haven't had time to find the data and process it. He's doing some really cool work over on that site. I love Josh Q from back on the FoxSports blog, but I think he's dead wrong on this one. Best case scenario, the Cats end up with a 7 or 8 seed this year and maybe next. Their ceiling is absolutely no higher than a bottom playoff team (and lets not forget that they probably wouldn't be in the playoff race if Milwaukee and Indiana weren't decimated by injuries). In order to be slightly less crappy, they made 3 trades, all of which hurt their cap space in the short and long term, and they jettisoned one of their few quality young players, Jared Dudley. They basically said "we're ok with being mediorce-to-bad for the next 4 years." Man, I picked a bad week to be out of the country unable to watch games and with a slow internet connection, there’s been so much good NBA stuff going on.

I continue to have mixed feelings about Shaq. Sometimes he comes off as a jovial guy who is smarter than he lets on, and other times he’s just a jerk and an idiot. He’s certainly one of the most interesting figures the game has ever seen, I just wish we got more of Good Shaq and less of Bad Shaq.

Henry Abbott over at Truehoop has a fantastic series today on how officials call traveling that is an absolute must-read. I wish he’d said a bit more about the rampant switching of the pivot foot that is allowed. More than anything, that’s the no-call in the NBA that makes me maddest. It’s not that hard guys, you get one pivot foot, you aren’t allowed to change it without dribbling.

That Basketball Geek article really has some great data. I’ve been meaning to do something similar, but I just haven’t had time to find the data and process it. He’s doing some really cool work over on that site.

I love Josh Q from back on the FoxSports blog, but I think he’s dead wrong on this one. Best case scenario, the Cats end up with a 7 or 8 seed this year and maybe next. Their ceiling is absolutely no higher than a bottom playoff team (and lets not forget that they probably wouldn’t be in the playoff race if Milwaukee and Indiana weren’t decimated by injuries). In order to be slightly less crappy, they made 3 trades, all of which hurt their cap space in the short and long term, and they jettisoned one of their few quality young players, Jared Dudley. They basically said “we’re ok with being mediorce-to-bad for the next 4 years.”

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