Category Archives: Basketball

PLAYOFF HOCKEY AND PLAYOFF BASKETBALL.

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Philip

PLAYOFF HOCKEY AND “PLAYOFF BASKETBALL.” The Sporting News had an article on May 24 by Craig Custance about how much hockey has improved in the last five years as a result of the determination to enforce the rules precisely during … Continue reading →

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REVIEWING THE PERFORMANCE OF UMPIRES.

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Philip

REVIEWING THE PERFORMANCE OF UMPIRES. I take the controversy over umpiring as supporting my repeated argument that the reviews of umpires and referees should be made public. Umpires basically have jobs for life, while players and managers are scored on … Continue reading →

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SABERMETRICS AND BASKETBALL.

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Philip

SABERMETRICS AND BASKETBALL. The March 12 Wall Street Journal also had an article comparing NBA teams that have at least one employee whose only duty is statistical analysis and those who don’t. The 15 teams that use a full-time statistician … Continue reading →

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SABERMETRICS COMES TO GOLF.

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Philip

SABERMETRICS COMES TO GOLF. The Wall Street Journal (March 12) had an article on a new measurement for putting success of professional golfers devised at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. The statistic takes into account the relative difficulty of the … Continue reading →

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BASKETBALL COACHES—FOOTBALL STYLE AND SOCCER STYLE.

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Philip

BASKETBALL COACHES—FOOTBALL STYLE AND SOCCER STYLE. In football, every play is planned after an interval for deliberation. Coaches now call most plays. In soccer, there is a continuous flow. A soccer coach has to prepare his players to react to … Continue reading →

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TYRUS THOMAS—DEFENSE VERSUS OFFENSE.

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Philip

TYRUS THOMAS—DEFENSE VERSUS OFFENSE. I am a lifelong Bulls fan. I can’t hold back from going out on a limb about their trading Tyrus Thomas. In any sport, it’s unusual to see a player with extraordinary physical talent being traded … Continue reading →

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AN ARGUMENT FOR MAKING REFEREE REVIEWS PUBLIC IN SOCCER.

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Philip

AN ARGUMENT FOR MAKING REFEREE REVIEWS PUBLIC IN SOCCER. I have posted several times that referee reviews in baseball, basketball and football should be made public. Some of my arguments were that referee mistakes are part of the narrative of … Continue reading →

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THE NBA’S THREE SETS OF “RULES.”

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Philip

THE NBA’S THREE SETS OF “RULES.” Refereeing basketball games is difficult enough, but the NBA makes it more difficult by having three different sets of “rules.” In addition to the rules that apply to over 90% of regular season games, … Continue reading →

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MAKING REFEREE RATINGS PUBLIC—UPDATE.

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Philip

MAKING REFEREE RATINGS PUBLIC—UPDATE. I recommended here that the National Basketball Association should make all its referee ratings for individual games public. One argument I made in support of the recommendation was that Referee Tim Donaghy had been accused of … Continue reading →

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MY FAVORITE SPORTS NICKNAME.

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Philip

MY FAVORITE SPORTS NICKNAME. Yahoo!Answers yesterday had this answer to the question “Is there a word without vowels in it?” Many of them have a “y” in them, but the words “cwm” and “psst” are nominated. I was reminded of … Continue reading →

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