Houston is doing a superb job at maximizing Motiejunas-Jones-Smith. For example, Jones was mostly positive minutes and he wound up playing most of the game.
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Bulls 86 Clippers 96
Paul was in control for Los Angeles and had a big mismatch against Brooks. The Bulls were losing ground whenever Paul was playing. Chicago could not score during crunchtime. Hinrich is awful.
Read More →Pacers 94 76ers 74
Indiana took full advantage of the Canaan minutes at point guard for Philadelphia. Noel is playing lots of minutes for the 76ers.
Read More →Lakers 101 Thunder 108
Oklahoma City organized around Ibaka-Augustin-Kanter and played well. The competence that Augustin-Kanter shows how difficult it is to develop players internally, and how smart it can be to change culture through transactions.
Read More →Nuggets 92 Pelicans 99
Evans-Gordon are showing that they have quality to win games as New Orleans backcourt. Denver is not much of a hurdle for opponents to take down.
Read More →Celtics 101 Warriors 106
Golden State ran lots of offense through Green during 2H. Boston has been featuring Jerebko-Smart-Crowder-Thomas and it looks like those players might have tired during 4Q.
Read More →Kings 99 Trail Blazers 110
Positive minutes from Portland starters, Matthews-Batum-Aldridge-Lopez-Lillard. Batum has been doing less but the Trail Blazers have been doing better as a result.
Read More →Magic 83 Hornets 98
Charlotte dominated 4Q, as tends to happen against Orlando. Hornets starters, Jefferson-Zeller-Williams-KiddGilchrist-Henderson, appear playoff-worthy, but Zeller and KiddGilchrist need to keep improving.
Read More →Applied Sports Science newsletter, March 2, 2015
Applied Sports Science news articles, blog posts and research papers for March 2, 2015 New blog post yesterday at sports.bradstenger.com: Last Week in Applied Sports Science, 2/22-2/28 Larry Sanders’ battle with anxiety and depression – ESPN ESPN NBA, TrueHoop Presents from February 27, 2015 “We don’t do a very good job with mental […]
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Three comments about last week’s Sloan Sports Analytics conference: Lots athletic performance technology on display by vendors. In fact, there were probably more performance technology vendors than athletic performance coaches at the Sloan conference. When I asked Gary McCoy from Catapult why, he said that it was just one more dimension to the multi-faceted collaboration […]
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