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The Boston Celtics’ Secret To Efficient Crunch Time Scoring
Last night fellow HoopSpeaker Ethan Sherwood Strauss and I were G-chatting during the final moments of the Celtics-Knicks game. With thirteen seconds left, the Knicks had given the ball back to the...
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Despite Strength, Ron Artest No Match For LeBron James
One can learn only so much from a midseason game, but if there’s one thing we know for sure after the Heat choked out the Lakers, it’s that Ron Artest is no match for LeBron James. That may not seem...
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Why the Heat could Playoff FAIL
Heat Playoff Logo When pundits talk Heat, conversations are caveat laden. “Ya, they’re playing great right now. But in the playoffs…” In the playoffs, the ball is square, the rim’s actually...
View Article2011 NBA All-Deceptive Teams
My high school basketball coach, John Wiley, used to tell us that on the basketball court, “you should be lying constantly.” He wanted us to understand that by constantly feinting and faking, you can...
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Iso A No-No For Boston
As Zach Lowe of Sports Illustrated has pointed out, the Celtics offense manages to be incredibly efficient despite a high turnover rate, low free throw rate and lack of three-point attempts—the...
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Optical Tracking Data and the importance of screening in the Boston Celtics’...
Perhaps the star presentation of the 2011 Sloan Sports Analytics conference was Sandy Weil, who two years ago dropped a bomb on the NBA community by proclaiming, with copious data to back him up, that...
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Boston Basketball Death
The Celtics are dying. The Spurs are dead. Right now, Andrew Bynum might agree: Never trust anyone over 30. The Celtics fascinate in a way they couldn’t mere months ago. Back then, they rendered...
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The NBA isn’t clutch
This league is a soft, neurotic mess. On Sunday, a blowout eliminated “clutch” Kobe, followed by MVP Derrick Rose botching late layups. The choking only got louder on Monday, when superstars gasped as...
View ArticleAbout that Wade-James pick and roll…
It was a stunningly simply and beautiful play that, as many noted when it happened and in recaps this morning, we imagined we’d see a dozen times a game en route to a Heat championship. A high pick and...
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Technique of the Week: Going straight up
Joel Anthony eats a Tyson Chandler forearm to stop a dunk without fouling Technique of the Week is a HoopSpeak feature that highlights the technical nuances that makes great players special and role...
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