I didn’t get a chance to catch this game live, so I watched the replay on ESPN3.com while I was at work and documented Pau’s progress during the game. As the title suggests, Pau finished with 29 points and (an unofficial) six rebounds. This is broken down by quarter with each note ending with how […]
Archives for August 2011
Reasonable Doubt: Kobe Bryant
J.M. Poulard is a friend of the site and contributor to fellow TrueHoop Network site,Warrior’s World. Over the summer he’s been doing excellent work at FB&G and continues those efforts today . You can reach him by email here and find him on Twitter @ShyneIV. Shawn Carter has been known to step inside the booth and bang […]
FIBA Americas and FIBA EuroBasket Starts This Week
This has been the longest summer I’ve experienced in quite a while with the limited amount of NBA news. While the NBA and the Players Union are billions of dollars apart in their negotiations right now, we can take some solace in the fact that actual basketball is going to be played with the FIBA […]
Who Belongs In The Post?
On the heels of our look at the construction of the Laker roster, we’re going to play a little guessing game. Below are four Lakers with basic stats from this past season. These are stats measuring how effective each player was in the post (all stats via Synergy): Player A: .90 points per play (67th […]
Around The World (Wide Web)
Henry Abbott over at TrueHoop has a fancy chart diagramming the 2011 NBA CBA Negotiations. The Player’s Union and the League are set to meet within the week, and you can read about some of what the Union has been up to here and here. Grantland’s Malcolm Gladwell has a great “big picture” piece on […]
Some Site News…
Later on today (at what exact time, I’m not yet sure) FB&G will be going through some server updates that will take the site off line for a bit. I’m told that it can take up to a full day to complete this work but I hope that it won’t take that long to work everything out. […]
Wishing Kobe a Happy 33rd Birthday
Today is the great Kobe Bean Bryant’s birthday and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the man than to watch some clips of his greatest performances, games, moves, blocks, dunks and game winners. I was pretty much watching these all morning and afternoon, and since I actually have to get some work […]
Roster Construction & The Window For A Championship
The Lakers remain one of the elite teams in the league. Among the chief reasons for this fact is the wealth of talent they possess at the top of their roster. With a core of Kobe, Pau, Bynum, Odom, and Artest the Lakers possess 5 of the better players in the league at their respective […]
Kobe Bryant and Trust Issues
J.M. Poulard is a friend of the site and contributor to fellow TrueHoop Network site, Warrior’s World. Over the summer he’s been doing excellent work at FB&G and continues those efforts today . You can reach him by email here and find him on Twitter @ShyneIV. Michael Jordan’s undeniable ability to score, defend and rip out his […]
Around The World (Wide Web)
From Ken Berger, CBS Sports: During a series of meetings in which union officials are updating players on the status of collective bargaining this week, one voice stood out: that of Kobe Bryant. Before a star-studded audience of about 75 players in Los Angeles Tuesday, Bryant was “up front” and “deliberate” in a speech in […]