Archive for November, 2007

NBA Possesion Analysis Part 1: Best Offensive Player.

Nov 20, 2007 No Comments by oytun

As I look around the basketball blogosphere, read journalist evaluations, and listen to fan opinions – it seems to me that we are really lacking an understanding of what it takes to win basketball games, and as a result we lose focus of which stats we should really pay attention to. As far as I’m concerned, basketball is a game of possessions and opportunity cost.

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Kobe’s Worth

Nov 06, 2007 No Comments by oytun

The Kobe debate today revolves not around his personality and moral ethics, but his ability on the court. Is Kobe Bryant really worth it?

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Where Amazing Doesn’t Happen: Kobe

Nov 06, 2007 No Comments by oytun

Where Amazing Doesn’t Happen is a regular section which parodies the official NBA ad campaign running at the moment.

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Denied! : “Bloggers just aren’t journalists” by Chris McCosky

Nov 05, 2007 No Comments

Denied! is a regular special feature that will see me take an article/action/story and let the culprit in question know exactly why they are wrong. This week I will be targeting all-mighty journalist Chris McCosky from the Detroit News and his recent elitist article condemning (practically) all bloggers around the world. Essentially what he says [...]

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Open Letter to Gilbert Arenas

Nov 04, 2007 No Comments

Dear Gilbert, I want to start off by letting you know I’ve been a big fan over the past couple of years. Your personality, attitude, outspoken demeanor, the underdog status, and your exciting style of play has resulted in millions of people declaring you as their favorite player, hero, icon – and I use to [...]

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