A Time for Reflection: Past drafts may conjure up images of Sam Bowie and broken legs, Len Bias and broken dreams, or more recently Darko Milicic and broken chains. Laker fans specifically have spent plenty of time either thinking about, or avoiding thinking about, Kupchak era draft picks. But the draft is almost always ultimately […]
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Notes at 3 am — Draft Thoughts
Let’s start some draft and free agent talk and thoughts, basically some thinking out loud as we start to hear about workouts and look at prospects. • By the way, wise Portland fans are putting a good face on yesterday. Now, if this were next year and Greg Oden was in the draft….. • In […]
Season Review: Kobe (and other two guards)
Yes he led the league in scoring — and there was the legendary 81 — but I’m willing to bet that for Kobe Bryant it is less about those or other stats and more about the big picture, and how the season ended. This season Kobe started to rehab an image that was tarnished in […]
Playoff Thoughts
To be honest, I had hoped to have the second part of the season review up today, focusing on Kobe and the other guards, but the post is just not fit for human consumption yet. Look for it on Monday. Instead, here are some thoughts after a late night perusing of the postseason stats. • […]
Notes at 3 am
More thoughts and notes largely typed one handed in the middle of the night while up with my daughter (then edited the next morning after some coffee). • Kobe the Blue Power Ranger? (Thanks to Ben Maller for that one.) • The latest Carnival of the NBA is up at Deadspin, pointing you to a […]
Season Review: Point Guards
Here comes the first in a series of pieces over the next few weeks breaking down aspects of the team’s players and management, looking at both last season and the future. There’s something compelling about Smush Parker that makes you want to like him. Maybe it’s his name — or that he named his SUV […]
The Last Word on Game 7
After everyone else has had their say on the Laker “effort†in game 7, Phil Jackson chimed in a email interview with Hoopsvibe and essentially said what many (myself included) said — the Suns worked to take the ball out of Kobe’s hands in the second half, no one else stepped up. But the best […]
Suggested Reading
A few links to pass along while I keep wondering why the Lakers didn’t foul someone with seconds left in game six, or at least let them have the uncontested two pointer: • Want a detailed look at Kobe and Raja Bell in game 7, well, Kevin Pelton gives us a good one over at […]
Notes at 3 am
• My late-night television watching while up with the baby this week — The Sopranos and Sports Night DVDs. If you didn’t catch Sports Night (from Aaron Sorkin, the guy who wrote West Wing for television and A Few Good Men the movie) do yourself a favor and rend the DVD’s, this was a creative […]
The Vision Thing
In the heat of the playoffs, I got an email from a new Web site asking bloggers to play GM-for-a-day and tell us what their team should do in the off-season. I’m not sure how you do that in any serious detail yet — free agency signings can’t happen for two months (July 10) and […]