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Menu Main page Video Video Video Video Video Video Video Thursday Bullets Post Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:03:54 PDT A statistician takes a stab at figuring out how many points Kobe Bryant cost the Lakers by ball-hogging on the night he scored 81. 12, by the way. That's the answer. Passing more, says the Arbitrarian on Hardwood Paroxysm, would have delivered the Lakers 12 extra points in a game they won anyway. The Knicks add John Gabriel and Misho Ostarcevic to the front office, further diluting the credibility of earlier claims that Isiah Thomas will matter moving forward. Trying to cool his love of twizzlers, Derrick Rose is transitioning to cupcakes. Kevin Garnett circa 1999: Not good at foosball. I've been wrestling with whether or not to even mention that the interior of Charles Barkley's colon will be on TV. Even if it's for a good cause, some things don't need a spotlight, you know? Colons are up there. My main thought is that if you're telling the world you are so famous that your colonoscopy actually counts as entertainment, then you are darn close to losing the ability to ever say, with conviction, "that's private." Matt Kamalsky of Draft Express has a massive review of the Phoenix Suns up, which includes this unintentionally hilarious, and inarguably true, line: "Has struggled with conditioning problems ever since leaving the Orlando Magic." For the record, Shaquille O'Neal left the Magic a dozen years ago. Donyell Marshall, gazillionaire, in the hotel lobby, avoiding fifty-cent hotel surcharges on phone calls. Exercise your right to be frugal! Autor of the post: Undefined Thursday Olybullets Post Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:59:56 PDT Be a little worried about Andrew Bogut's ankle. A great story from Pete Thamel's New York Times profile of U.S. Water Polo coach Terry Schroeder: "A few years ago, Schroeder was at the national training center in Los Alamitos, Calif., and heard a teenager say, 'Have we ever been any good?' The remark stung Schroeder, who realized that a generation had grown up thinking men's water polo was irrelevant in the United States. 'That just about killed me,' he said. 'I never forgot it and I never will.' To instill American pride, Schroeder took his players, many of whom play in Europe, to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington before an overseas trip. On the steps of one of the nation's great monuments, Schroeder talked about the sacrifices made by America's founding fathers. 'I'm not sure how much it impacted them or not,' he said. 'But I had some lady standing behind the guys with her kids. She was crying and said it was really good. I figured, at least I touched someone.'" Also, not sure if you noticed the story yesterday about a remarkable American woman, Sheila Taormina, who is competing in her fourth Olympics, and in her third different sport -- she has been a swimmer and triathlete, and now she's a modern pentathlete. Can you imagine how much of her adult life she has spent training? And then she gave the New York Times' Jere Longman this delightfully startling quote: "I love cigarettes and gambling. If I didn't do this, I'd be a smoker and a gambler." Interesting thing about Team USA's next opponent, Argentina: They hardly ever play zone defense, and they are the only team in history that has beat an NBA-rich Team USA more than once. Usain Bolt as pre-surgery Amare Stoudemire. Dr. Oliver Eslinger is the associate head coach at MIT, where the players are really smart. Over the last season, Eslinger tells me, the MIT team has started to put their player's IQs to good use by using all kinds of stat geek type numbers to inform the team's strategy. He tells me the insight from the numbers has actually led to some wins. And now he has used some of their numbers to analyze Team USA, and make a case that Dwyane Wade has been the most effective player so far. UPDATE: Athletes like Chris Kaman switching countries for the Olympics has one big advantage: It gets more of the most talented players -- who otherwise would have to stay home -- into the contest. Autor of the post: Undefined Gold Medal Game Live Blog Post Date: What the heck, let’s go for it. At 2:30am EST, come here for some live blogging of the game. Join in in the comments! 2:24 AM - The coverage begins, oddly enough with a spotlight upon Kobe Bryant. Man, they sure are selling Kobe, aren’t they? 2:25 AM - They’re showing the four guys who are getting [...] Autor of the post: Undefined USA Basketball Game 7: USA 101 - Argentina 81 Post Date: The United States now only has to defeat Spain on Sunday to win the Gold medal, and after defeating a mostly Manu Ginobili-less Argentina, the United States’ worst result will be a Silver Medal. But you know darn well that they did not come here to win Silver, so Sunday’s re-match against Spain (who Team [...] Autor of the post: Undefined Knicks Add to Front Office Staff Post Date: According to the NY Times: John Gabriel, a former N.B.A. executive of the year with the Orlando Magic, has joined the Knicks’ revamped front office and will assume a major role in rebuilding the roster after seven straight losing seasons. Donnie Walsh, the team president, appointed Gabriel as the director of pro scouting and free agency, [...] Autor of the post: Undefined USA Basketball Game 6: USA 116 - Australia 85 Post Date: The United State is now just two wins away from the Gold medal after demolishing Australia in a game that opened with a first half where just about everything went wrong for the Americans until a last second three, and they were still up nine before a three-pointer by Deron Williams put them up 12 [...] Autor of the post: Undefined Tyson Chandler Post Date: I may be slow to the party, but there’s a great post on Tyson Chandler at Hornets247. Ryan Schwan compares the perception on Chandler to reality, namely that Chandler is a poor defender because he doesn’t have a high block shot rate and that the half court offensive is 4 vs 5 with him on [...] Autor of the post: Undefined USA Basketball Game 5: USA 106 - Germany 57 Post Date: The United States finished up the pool round with a demolition of Germany. The US had already clinched the top seed in their group, so this game did not technically “matter,” but you wouldn’t notice by the way they absolutely destroyed Germany, using all of their weapons (outside shooting, defense, athleticism, even the inside presence [...] Autor of the post: Undefined USA Basketball Game 4: USA 119 - Spain 82 Post Date: The United States finished off the first round of games in impressive style, going undefeated and destroying Spain by thirty-seven points (their largest margin of victory yet!). Once the threes started dropping, Spain knew they were in for a long day at the office. The US opened up making seven of their first ten threes, finishing with [...] Autor of the post: Undefined Donnie Walsh Speaks! Post Date: Donnie Walsh had a “town forum” with Knicks season ticket holders. Here, courtesy of NYKnicks.com, is video from that event (you may have to click on the piece to see the embedded video)… Thanks to TDM for the heads up! And thanks to Alah Hahn’s awesome Knicks blog on Newsday.com. 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