Thank you for providing backing for my pet theory that Phil Jackson is not an amazing basketball coach, he is an amazing psychologist. When ‘99-vintage Kobe and Shaq are getting along, *I* could coach them to an NBA championship - his accomplishment was in generating team unity, not brilliant tactics.

I think this was Phil planting that story as an excuse for why New York was failing as a basketball team. “The Triangle isn’t working because the players don’t understand it; if they did we’d win all the games!”

Not the only ideology whose peak came in the 90s and had its luster dulled by a New Yorker in orange.

This is the rare pierced, circumcised triangle offense.  

Think of how much better the triangle would be with a sixth player (in the diagram, positioned along the sideline well past the 3pt line), it would make both another small triangle and a great big-assed triangle out of all the little triangles. So much triangle power

The Triangle worked because some of the smartest and greatest basketball players of all time placed their trust in a guy who turns out to have been too stupid to deserve it.

Justice runs a 4.23

Perry’s guilty pleas were part of a deal with Ingham County prosecutors that resulted in his sexual assault and alcohol charges being dropped....

Knowing Harbaugh, Perry probably copped a pleat deal.

Adios, Miggy.

Paul might be the most overrated player in the league.

Montero came out bitching after the WS about his lack of playing time. Seems like his teammates are not having it anymore.

This will either be a fun pairing or a total disaster

Well, there goes the Clippers’ run of being somewhat slightly kind of sort of but ultimately not really relevant.

Would you call out your pitchers? Rizzo is sticking up for his teammates cause he knows what Montero is saying is BS. Yes, the pitchers are part of the problem, but what Montero did was a total POS move.

And away we go:

Sports fans are THE WORST.

This may sound terrible, but it isn’t unprecedented. In 2014, former Mariners catcher Jesus Montero was a perfect 31-for-31 at Baskin-Robbins.

These are the sort of niggling deficiencies that get overlooked when a team is running away with the National League, as the Cubs did last season. They’re struggling this year, though, and that means that all the little problems nobody cared too much about while the team was winning are suddenly big problems.