After reading a very interesting, informative, relevant and timely article in the Thursday, April 26th in the Bangor Daily News entitled “UMaine recruits feature versatility” by BDN sportswriter Ernie Clark based on the following quotes from new Maine men’s head basketball coach Richard Barron stating “I think the game is evolving and changing to more […]
For some reason yesterday, June 7th and today, June 8th there has been a very interesting thing happening on my BLOG. I wrote a column on December 6, 2017 about the “Boston Celtics becoming San Antonio Spurs of the Eastern Conference” and stated the reasons why I felt that way. For some reason there was […]
I am not a big NBA (Not Basketball Anymore) fan and only then if the San Antonio Spurs of the Western Division and the Boston Celtics of the Eastern Division are playing and not until it gets to the quarter-final round of the conference playoffs. How many NBA fans today will say that it is […]
Listening to a national sports show the other day a host stated a star shooter in the NBA said that 2 basketballs would fit and go thru the basket side by side together at the same time. I was stunned by that statement because unless they are 2 girls high school, women’s NCAA college or […]
With 36 seconds to go in the first game of the NBA championship series between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers one of the toughest calls for officials to make happened as the Warriors Kevin Durant drove to the basket in the free throw lane as the Cavaliers LeBron James slid over to […]
There was a time in basketball that being LOYAL and LOYALTY were important LIFE LESSONS learned from NBA, college and high school Basketball players. There was no NBA free agency, some trades and most players stayed with the team that selected and signed them for their entire careers. There also was a time when there […]
After watching both the Boston Celtics and the Houston Rockets on their home floors shoot themselves out of the only true one and one or win or go home games in the Eastern & Western Conference championship games it shows again “if you live by the 3 you may die by the three” even for […]
After watching the NBA playoffs and see LeBron James almost singlehandely take his team to his eighth consecutive NBA championship round by playing him man-to-man defense which allows him to have the ball in his hands most of the time on offense to go one and one to get to the basket or to shoot […]
Watching the NBA (Not Basketball Anymore) Eastern and Western Conference Finals that are 3-2 in favor of the Houston Rockets and the Boston Celtics I am still amazed, crazed and disappointed in how much the game is played from the shoulders down which features poor offensive and defensive basketball decision making skills because of lower […]
In the current NBA conference finals 6 of the 8 games have been double figure wins and 6 of those 8 games the home team has won. So even at the supposedly top level of basketball the home court maybe the difference in the 6 wide margin of results of double figures. The Celtics held […]
