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The Handle Podcast – Tracy Murray: 9/7/15

On the inaugural episode of The Handle podcast, Tracy Murray joins me to discuss his whole basketball career.

September 8, 2015 · 3 Comments

An Unnecessary Breakdown of the Shaky 15 Blocks by Shaq

This is probably the most dominant big man stat-line in recent basketball history (and by recent basketball history I mean, what we all mean in these cases, anything up to 1985-86 as provided by basketball-reference.com)…

August 19, 2015 · 9 Comments

Vintage NBA: Off-the-Backboard Set Plays

Some cool examples of NBA teams having set plays with off-the-backboard passes.

July 4, 2015 · 2 Comments

TNT Not Airing the Side-Line Interview with Gregg Popovich

The coach in question, of course, is Gregg Popovich who had an extra-grumpy series even for his standards by averaging 5.41 words per one question (65 words for 12 questions as question 13th and 14th weren’t aired).

May 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

Charlotte Hornets Season in Review, Part 2

Thanks to everybody who praised the first batch of reviews and took their time to give me a Twitter shout out or encouraged me personally. Here’s the remaining of Hornets … Continue reading

April 21, 2015 · Leave a comment

Season in Review: Lance Stephenson

It’s hard to tell why exactly it all went wrong. I mean, the fit of Stephenson on the Hornets roster is bad, however, no one else but Lance should be … Continue reading

April 21, 2015 · 1 Comment

Season in Review: Bismack Biyombo

Regular boxscore metrics don’t paint the picture of any kind of improvement by Bismack Biyombo this past season. His averages and thus his impact look the same to the naked … Continue reading

April 21, 2015 · 1 Comment

Season in Review: Kemba Walker

Kemba Walker is a hard worker and a feisty player which helps building the narrative that he’s a very good defender. That isn’t though necessarily the case and there are certain shortcomings … Continue reading

April 20, 2015 · 1 Comment

Season in Review: Noah Vonleh

Due to reasons I’ve already covered in the Jason Maxiell and Steve Clifford columns we only saw 25 games of Noah Vonleh this season. Much of his minutes came in … Continue reading

April 19, 2015 · 2 Comments

Season in Review: Troy Daniels

Troy Daniels might end up having played only 11 games for the Charlotte Hornets organization in his career. Yet he has already left his mark on the franchise, albeit in … Continue reading

April 19, 2015 · 2 Comments