One thing to note about GWTW: all of its re-releases get factored into that total. Same deal with Star Wars. So while it is still without question one of the largest and most-impressive film grosses of all time, a good chunk of that is coming from more than one run in the theaters.

Boston finished the game 9-41 from three (22%), and the only reason it was as close as it was is because the Bucks couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from range, either (8-37, 21.7%). The worst thing though, for Boston, is that they can’t even claim Milwaukee defended them well. The Bucks played great on the…

I loved last year’s team, thought they were fun as hell to watch all season long, and couldn’t wait for this year ... which has been an unending disappointment. Last night’s fourth quarter was awful. Boston played the entire thing like a team that just wants to get through one-and-a-quarter more games so they can go…

Im not making excuses for him, but is he hurt? Or have the Rockets just defended him well this series? Ot is he just playing poorly for no reason? His shooting percentages have been atrocious, but I haven’t been able to watch much of any of the games so I don’t have anything but the stats to go by.

I promise, the cats don’t even bat an eyelid when I start shouting about basketball. They’ve both known me for over a decade. They’re used to it.

I am absolutely not calling Brett Brown an elite NBA coach. I can see how it’s a little unclear from my initial post, but all I meant is that Toronto’s coach, whose name I can’t even remember, is pretty good ... but not elite.

I think Boston can very definitely beat Philly, although I don’t think it’ll be a short series. That assumes they can get through Milwaukee, though, which ... seems less likely than it did after game one. We’ll see what happens tonight!

It’s a bit hard to tell how much of it is Kawhi going outside the normal system, and how much of it is that there doesn’t seem to be much of a system for him to go outside of. There were a lot of possessions last night where someone flipped the ball to him, and then all four guys stood around and watched him work.…

I’ll give the Sixers credit for that, and for just generally playing like the better team for the last two games. I’m not convinced, though, that they’ve yet had to go against a team that really knows how to force the issue. Maybe I’m wrong and they’ll do this same thing to Milwaukee or Boston (assuming Toronto…

Yeah, I don’t think complex switching is a Philly strong point, but they mostly don’t have to do it. They’re athletically equal or superior to the Raptors at nearly every position, so it’s incumbent on Toronto to find the weak spots and attack them. Otherwise Philly can just do what they want to do. And Toronto’s…

I was saying to my wife last night—OK, I was shouting it to whomever was in the room, which was her and one of our two cats—that the difference between elite NBA coaching and just “pretty good” NBA coaching is a vast gulf. Toronto’s complete failure to do things like “switch so Redick has to defend Kawhi every single…

Philly might well be the better team but Toronto is doing a lot of really questionable stuff, or at least was last night. With the exception of Leonard, they played terribly, and it wasn’t exclusively because of Philly’s defense. Lowry, for one, was out of control and made a ton of terrible decisions.

Fair enough. I tend to err on the side of “the refs are there to regulate game flow more than to rigidly enforce the rules” but in the long run, “if the rule doesn’t make the game better, change the rule” would largely have the same effect.

That’s not really the point I’m making, though. The point is that their response to the report basically indicates that they want about two hundred fouls called per game, which would make the game complete trash to play and to watch. If you called every little bit of ticky-tack contact a foul, the NBA would become…

You could probably call 100 extra fouls a game if you reviewed it like that.

I feel like the landing zone rule would be improved A LOT if it included a section stating that the foul’s only going to be called on standard jump-shots and fadeaways, not shots where the player either leaps forward like they’re doing a long jump, or jumps straight up but then kicks their legs out at the defender.

It’s amazing that in that second quote they are complaining that Harden WASN’T called for a foul. I mean, if they want the refs to call every bit of incidental contact Harden makes a foul, I’m sure the league could accommodate them, but having their best player foul out eight minutes into the first quarter seems like…

“Let’s remember some former all stars who are still playing at almost that level”

Carmelo is a lock for the HOF. I’m not even talking about if he deserves it or not, but he’s getting in.

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