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So, the Celtics won again. They have for the last two games looked like what we thought they were heading into the Eastern Conference Finals: the better…
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How the West Was Won
In some ways, the Nuggets are a typical conference champion. They were the No. 1 seed. They are led by a two-time MVP who also finished as this year’s…
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How I learned to stop caring about ratings and start caring about basketball and good stories
I ran into a dual issue over the weekend where something was going on with my Substack account and I literally could not publish new posts for some…
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Nuggets-Lakers Game 1
Let’s run through some quick thoughts on Game 1 of the Nuggets-Lakers series… 30-20-10 triple-doubles in the NBA playoffs: Nikola Jokic (2), Everyone…
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Have a good summer: Knicks, Warriors, 76ers
I want to run through some thoughts about the three teams that were eliminated from the playoffs over the weekend… I’ve been very high on Jalen Brunson…
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Basketball is not a morality play
I want to riff on this concept because I got into a bit of a discussion with some people on Twitter about it. Things started with a tweet from Harrison…
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Jalen Brunson and Quentin Grimes played all 48 minutes because the Knicks needed them to
I saw some complaints on Twitter last night and I just did not understand them. “LOL THIBS.” With a picture of the number of minutes played by both…
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Stay Ready
Every so often you will hear a coach refer to the “stay ready group.” It’s a group of players that are not in the rotation that will get together after…
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Hotter than the Sun
Let’s run through some thoughts on this Sunday’s games (the Saturday blowouts were barely worthy of discussion)… Devin Fucking Booker. Holy shit. He is…
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Guarding small
Let’s start by acknowledging that Joel Embiid was pretty good last night, for the most part. He ended up with 30 points on 19 shots and 12 trips to the…
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Anatomy of a Game 2 win
The big story coming out of Game 1 of Warriors-Lakers was Anthony Davis, for the most part because of the effect he had on Golden State’s offense. The…
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The one remaining question
Let’s start with the accepted premise that Mike Budenholzer is a very good basketball coach. If we can’t agree on that, we probably can’t have the rest…
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