Atlanta took 4Q lead with Bazemore-Schroder-Korver-Horford-Scott. Heavy minutes for Korver-Horford. The Hawks do not the have the depth at those two spots that the team has everywhere else. Lillard is in a shooting slump but the rest he will get by not being an All-Star will help the Trail Blazers.
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Celtics 87 Rockets 93
Smith is providing valuable positive minutes with Howard absent for the Rockets. His defense and rebounds during crunchtime were essential for Houston to hold on against Boston. Celtics got good 4Q run from Smart-Sullinger-Thornton-Crowder-Bass.
Read More →Suns 99 Bulls 93
Phoenix took big leads playing against the Chicago bench. Bulls have no idea what Mirotic will give the team when he goes in. It was all negative minutes this game.
Read More →Heat 72 Mavericks 93
Dallas may have found something in Aminu-Villanueva-Harris whose lineups overwhelmed Miami starting late-3Q. Bosh-Chalmers may have hit a fatigue wall in 4Q.
Read More →Pelicans 108 Clippers 103
No Davis for New Oleans but big win anyway. Pelicans offense seemed to run just fine with Evans-Anderson-Gordon clicking. Cunningham-Asik did the job on defense for New Orleans against Jordan-Griffin.
Read More →Nets 122 Raptors 127
Nets really wanted this game. Toronto won anyway. Raptors are getting better offense and have the Lowry-DeRozan-AmirJohnson-Vasquez-Valanciunas lineup clicking. Brooklyn could easily lose the rest of their games up to the All-Star break after playing Jack a ridiculous number of minutes.
Read More →76ers 103 Timberwolves 94
The game swung to Philadelphia during early-4Q with Grant-Thompson-McDaniels-Sims-DrewII. The 76ers improvement trend is reaching down the roster to the bench.
Read More →Cavaliers 101 Kings 90
Cleveland had nice late-1Q run with James on the bench. Lots of impact and positive minutes from Love. It is possible that no All Star game for Love will make him (and teammates) re-appraise his role. There is lots of room to improve.
Read More →Jazz 110 Warriors 100
Favors-Gobert-Kanter-Booker outplayed Speights-Lee-Bogut-Green throughout the game. The Jazz leaned heavily on Hayward to do everything and play big minutes. Did Utah just expose Golden State and give the league the recipe for beating the Warriors?
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Applied Sports Science news articles, blog posts and research papers for January 31, 2015 … The (not necessarily every) Saturday newsletter has leftover items from the week that weren’t included in any of the Monday-Friday emails. Headsup: The quantity of links in this weekly queue-clearing is greater than the typical weekday e-newsletter. New blog post […]
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