I am no Tom Thibodeau and neither is Mike D’Antoni, apparently.
The New York Knickerbockers are not playing defense. How do I know? Well, if your team surrenders 118 points to the Charlotte Bobcats (go ahead, I challenge you to name three of their starting five), something is wrong on the defensive end of the floor.
In last night’s home victory against reigning NBA champions Dallas:
But Love hit two straight 3s, including a step-back over Kidd, and Rubio assisted on three straight buckets during an end-of-the-game surge. His last pass was a beauty between Nowitzki’s legs to an open Tolliver in the corner for a 3-pointer and a 98-82 lead.
With the Wolves offense stagnant, Rubio scored 12 of the team’s 15 points during a critical five minute stretch bridging the third and fourth quarters. The Spanish kid who supposedly can’t shoot drilled two 3s and scored on a pair of pretty drives, the last giving them an 82-72 lead with nine minutes to play.
Rubio has played all 12 minutes of the fourth quarter of all four games and has made 7 of 10 shots and scored 21 points with 14 assists and nine rebounds in those 48 minutes.
Gordon and Trainor’s new book and Leon Aron’s new book definitely look interesting…but I think this list could be way better…needs more history and biography…any suggestions?
Doesn’t get much more athletic than Rudy Gay and Kevin Durant going head to head…advantage Durant.
Former Maccabi point-guard, Jeremy Pargo, filling in for injured Michael Conley puts up 15 points and 7 assists.
Zach Randolph has the most entertaining low-post game in the NBA.
An interesting review of Michael Lewis’s Boomerang…
Walter Russell Mead on northern and southern European culture, and why it is a big deal…important stuff, but is it possible to generalize about culture like this?
I recommend Paul Westphal’s Sacramento Kings…looks like a fun team. Chuck Hayes is a poor man’s Charles Oakley who was a poor man’s Wes Unseld…
Interesting stuff from Theda Skocpol and company. Would love to know how many of the people they interviewed knew where this was from:
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“I don’t look at it,” Johnson says of the depth chart, “I don’t go by what I see. I’m a visionary. They say birds see, but eagles have vision. I’m going with the eagle part, because if you go with the bird part, you’ll see the holes.”
Popeye Jones is an assistant. You gotta love that.
No, not Elin Nordegren…
Those Northern Europeans they’re so…well, civilized.
Most of them. Really.
Culture…can it be changed?
