Larry Brown’s Charlotte Bobcats are an incredibly scrappy team. They play in your face defensively, fly all around the court, and hit the glass with reckless abandon. They fight, they hustle, and they grind out wins. Not surprisingly, their star player goes by the nickname of “Crash̶[...]
A few quick thoughts from the 98-94 win over Charlotte: The Bobcats play a brand of basketball that isn’t pretty, but tonight was a particularly ugly affair. Bodies were flying everywhere, loose ball battles were vicious, and hardly any drives to the rim resulted in clean looks. This was a jun[...]
What would Eric Gordon look like if he were quicker, 3 inches taller, and a better ballhandler? Surely he’d look like a perennial All-Star with an unstoppable offensive game. Surely he’d resemble the recurring player that pops up in all of Mike Dunleavy’s better dreams. But do you [...]
A few notes from the Clippers 99-89 victory: Kim Hughes gets on the board tonight with the first victory of his NBA head coaching career. There are still issues at play with the Clippers increase in pace (24 turnovers tonight), but Hughes runs some really fantastic halfcourt sets down the stretch. T[...]