Ha! Can you imagine if it was the Obama administration that had sent a letter to the various Secretaries of State asking for a slew of voter information? Several Republican lawmakers would’ve burst blood vessels while decrying the executive overreach. Meanwhile, has Congress said *anything* yet? (I was heartened, at…

At least until they get into the playoffs and Lowry falls of a cliff.

Thank you. All this “this is not normal! ” screeching has been bugging me for awhile, because outside of the fact that Trump himself is decidedly more vulgar and open with his contempt for decency, the Republican party has been this way for decades. This is absolutely normal. This is what they’ve been preaching…

I get all of that, and I was as wrong as anyone when the Rockets hired D’Antoni (maybe watching him succeed so spectacularly with those Rockets after his Lakers stint is clouding my judgment). And sure, if you can turn Dekker and Patrick Beverley into Chris Paul, you do it every time. My reaction was mostly to

Ah. Well, he’s right on both of those points. Whether or not Doc is a good coach, on the other hand... He definitely was good for those KG-Pierce-Allen-Rondo Celtics teams, for a spell anyway. It takes some talent to wrangle egos (which is why I always bristle when I see the comments about Phil Jackson as some…

D’Antoni has proven again and again that he’s great in situations in which he has a team built the way he wants it, but he does not adapt well. I watched him take over a team that had Kobe, Dwight Howard when he was still useful but coming off back surgery, and Pau Gasol (I leave out Nash because he was already hurt…

Well in Simmons’s case, he hated Doc until the Celtics started winning, then declared him one of the very best coaches (“he just needed to get to 10000 mins of coaching!” *blows Malcolm Gladwell*), then when Doc ditched the Celtics it was suddenly “Doc rode the HOFers, he’s not that good.” Not sure if that has…

god you warlord snowflakes just can’t let anything go can you

Hey, it worked well enough for Phoenix that one year. And then they added a third point guard!

Hell, after the various injuries and too many people harping on him for being “only a dunker” even after he developed a reliable jump shot, Blake doesn’t even dunk any more. So it’ll really just be DJ dunking, while Blake shoots 20-footers.

You’re both. You’re also simultaneously a communist and a fascist. Additionally, you are both an effete, ineffectual wimp who can’t get anything done and also a vicious tyrant who is going to violently force your beliefs on the nation. You are everything and nothing. You are... a liberal.

Yeah, I don’t quite get it. D’Antoni has pretty much proven that he can coach a team really well when it’s built to his specifications, but not at all when it’s not, and trading for a slow, aging point guard (no matter how skilled he might be at the position) doesn’t really seem to fit with D’Antoni’s…

No lie. I live in Hollywood, and my barber just moved to Venice. After some hemming and hawing, I convinced myself that a trip to Venice for a haircut was silly, that of course there are capable barbers near me. Went up the street to a place recommended to me, one of those ridiculous places where the barbers sound…

Thank you, I thought I was taking crazy pills. Orbach/Bratt or Martin/Waterston/Harmon/Steven Hill, please.

That’s a little unfair; Karl Malone was *still* Karl Malone for most of that season, looking and playing great until he injured his knee.

Don’t you understand, it’s the illusion of *not* having spent money that truly matters.

Good recast, and I think you make an excellent point. So much of the acclaimed music journalism is so rock-focused that I can understand the compulsion to toss around praise for other forms if only just for the sake of some damn diversity.

The backlash against nerdy dudes in thick rimmed glasses overpraising the “raw emotion and complexity” of thin, depressing indie rock involves overpraising big-time pop star production. It’s just a series of competing over-corrections, straight into the void.

Dumbass GM Phil Jackson has really cast a pall over Coach Phil Jackson, but that Lakers team, at least, underachieved every year before Phil got there. I think Dante 3000 is right:

I’m a Lakers fan and even *I* would laugh maniacally