Recent content by UCLAwin

With all the message boards I've been on for different teams over the past decade it's pretty much the same types of posts. This group hates that player, that group hates this player. This player is garbage so we should trade him. Our team should have nothing but all-stars on it. Our coach sucks...

The Jazz aren't very good on offense while the Thunder are, but the Thunder don't exactly play great defense. If the Jazz players could hit some jumpers they'd be in this. I'm just saying I've seen quite a few guys come up holding their heads or faces after getting hit. I'm not talking about the...

The guys may not be playing great, and they also may not be able to knock down many jumpers, but the officiating really is horrid. I usually don't go into the officiating complaints debates, both teams will complain, but this game, oh yeah it's bad. Earl gets a defender in the air, he jumps into...

Kevin Durant had very high turn-over numbers his first couple of years (I haven't seen his numbers lately), mainly because he'd get the ball knocked away as he was driving into the lane. I'd expect young guys to have higher turn-over numbers as they adjust to the NBA game. Hopefully as they get...

plenty of fans of teams on message boards (believe me, I've been on a lot of message boards for different teams) seem to think their teams should get All-Stars for every position. That works in limited situations, but for most teams, you ideally get a few guys who are top choices for scoring and...

"Utah assistant Sidney Lowe was more passionate than I've seen him all season. He shouted his lungs out during crucial stretches, pushing Devin Harris and the Jazz to tighten up their defense, yelling "Step up" and "Stop the ball! Stop the ball!"" yeah, I think even asst coaches have extra...

No, Earl's never put up "starters point" if that's why people continually diss him as a starting point guard. He sure has finished a lot of games in his career though. Other than Seattle in his first year when he was backing up Payton, and in Denver when he was playing the 2 - and knocking down...

That's why I'm not really concerned about his inability to score over the past few games. He comes back too soon to be effective on offense when he gets hurt, but he never wants to sit. He's doing other things well enough to get the PT though. And talk abot missed calls - how about when he was...

I've been watching bits of the last couple of games while also trying to work (I work from home, am dealing with multiple pinched nerves, so I spread my work-day out, I'm not a slacker), and here are a couple of observations. - Earl's ankle isn't fully healed. Adrenaline got him through the...

That was ugly. On defense, they started to stick with Lin on the pick and rolls and double him, pushing him out of what he wanted to do, and the Knicks struggled a tad with that, but it was way too late in the game, and they've got shooters to bail them out.

and why don't you pass it out and reset instead of trying to back down for 12 seconds? Not inspired or smart play for the most part, but there's still time if they play smarter. Maybe.

you have Lin trapped, tied up. Why would you back away? Oy.

yeah, Jeffries was outside on that foul, but he wasn't set. Good call I believe.

That should have been this half, not is half. Sometimes my voice recognition software doesn't quite work like it's supposed to.

Haris has been doing a better job staying in front of Lin is half, but pick and roll defense still not good obviously. Also more work in the paint this half to cut into the deficit, but there's still no one who can hit a jumper right now.