Six games into an NBA season is way to few to be a statistically significant. Which is just a fancy way saying it is way to early to know exactly what you’ve got with this year’s Laker team. That has not stopped news outlets from highlighting Kobe’s shooting percentage (.377%) and points per game (27.7) […]
Archives for November 2004
A Little Something You Should Know
The best basketball site on the Web, 82 Games, recently got a little well-deserved publicity. It is at the leading edge of a wave that will change how basketball players and teams will be evaluated and you should be checking it out. Let me explain, by way of another sport. For the past few years, […]
Well, At Least Beale Street Was Fun…..
Observations from last night’s game: * In the first six games the Lakers have been blown out of the building twice — both times in the second game of a back-to-back. (Yes, you could argue that the San Antonio game was not as close as the final score and it was a blowout too, but […]
Kobe v. Shaq
This blog got its start after the summer of turmoil, where Kobe stayed (and saw the rape charges dropped) while Shaq and Phil Jackson were shown the door. You can say its all in the past and that we need to move on, and you’d be right. But to me, in the same way you […]
Deserving Splinters?
Road wins in the NBA are about as easy to come by as real breasts at the Bada Bing, so I don’t want to read too much into the near collapse in New Orleans. It still goes into the victory column and other players — particularly Butler — stepped up. But remember back before the […]
Tip-Off
Welcome to my attempt at keeping personal sanity in the midst of the swirling vortex of controversy that is the Lakers. Honestly, sanity through a chance to vent is the core of why I chose start a Lakers blog. I am doing this for me and, if you like it here, you are welcome to […]