The Cleveland Cavaliers hosted the Detroit Pistons on Sunday evening and were blown out of the water. The Cavs lacked emotion, effort and chemistry throughout the entire game. Detroit went on to set a franchise record for three pointers made in a game in the 103-80 victory. They knocked down 17 of their 31 attempts from deep, a ridiculous 55% shooting. [Read more…]
This afternoon’s 4:30 start for Detroit at Cleveland leaves it on a DFS island; the vast majority of daily fantasy contests close at 7:00 Eastern and cover the five NBA games on Sunday evening. [Read more…]
Josh Smith is one of those players whose praise is always qualified. You know how it goes: “He’s unbelievably talented, but…”, “He’s a matchup problem at both ends, but…”, “He’s a phenomenal finisher at the rim, but…”. The “but” is always the same: he’s not a good outside shooter, and he takes way too many outside shots. There’s one word that comes up more than any other these days when people talk about how the NBA’s best teams win: efficiency. Teams can win
The 2014-15 NBA regular season continued on Saturday, December 27 with a strong slate of 10 games. There was a career performance from a rising star, a duel between star players and one of the most efficient performances in NBA history. Here’s how it all transpired. [Read more…]
Not many people expected the Cleveland Cavaliers to be sitting in fifth place in the Eastern Conference two months into the season. When you build a SuperTeam, 5th place is not where you set your sights … and Cavs fans are grousing about it. But when you have a new coach, two imported superstars who have to change their games, a franchise cornerstone (Kyrie Irving) who is not the franchise cornerstone anymore, there are going to be growing pains. And that
Friday was a night of surprises. Jared Dudley $3700 couldn’t miss (24 points on 10-10 shooting) as the Bucks destroyed a bunch of impostors wearing Hawks uniforms. Both LaMarcus Aldridge (illness) and Chris Kaman (family) didn’t play, so Joel Freeland pulled down a career-high 17 rebounds. [Read more…]
History was made on Friday, December 26. The NBA returned from its Christmas special with a normal slate of 11 games featuring 22 teams. An active legend moved up the all-time scoring list, a contemporary star battled a future Hall of Famer, a number of MVP candidates went off, a rising star set a franchise record and an unheralded player made history. Here’s how it all transpired. [Read more…]
If you were using twitter on Christmas, you might have noticed the word “Temecula” trending everywhere. Hell, it’s still trending. Basically, well, you can read about what happened here. To make a long story short, two men (as you can see in the photoshopped work of a twitter user) on twitter got into an argument about Kobe Bryant and some other basketball-related things and decided it was time to take things to the next level by meeting up in Temecula (one of