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No, I don’t think it will last — the Clippers will not continue on pace to win 60+ games, they will come back down to earth. That doesn’t mean they can’t make the playoffs — if they stay healthy they have a good shot. They could even win the Pathetic Pacific this season. But they [...]

Thoughts from the Knicks game — including where Lamar Odom should play — and other things: • The newest Carnival of the NBA blogs is up over at HoopsAddict.com, and there are a lot of new bloggers out there with a lot to say — some of it very insightful. • Phil Jackson is now [...]

Rather than having me, who has seen 0% of the Knicks games this season, talking about that team, Larry from the Father Knickerbocker blog and I have swapped previews. What follows is his look at the game, my synopsis of the Lakers this season is up at his site (all of which will be pretty [...]

After two poor offensive outings, I decided to do some offensive charting for the Memphis game to get a detailed look at what the Lakers were doing and why it wasn’t working. Picked a great game to go through every step of — didn’t miss a minute of that beauty. The first three games of [...]

Memphis has not played much like a Mike Fratello team so far this season. Oh, they may still be boring fans to death and setting offensive basketball back decades (we’ll get a better look at them tonight, if we can stay awake), but they are not playing good defense. The ill-named Grizzlies have a defensive [...]