Archive for March, 2008

Day 153 of 170: The Battle for the West Continues

and Ron Artest says it’s a “failure” that Sacramento isn’t in it (the battle, that is). Of course, he also said: We have one of the best defensive players to ever play the game in myself. Well, last night, that was certainly true… Line of the Night: Ron Artest (5.83) had 29/12/3 with 2 threes [...]

Day 152 of 170: Backwards Day

Did you ever have “backwards day” in elementary school, where everyone would wear their clothes backwards and the day would be all mixed up? No? Me neither. But let’s make up for lost time with the strange day that was yesterday. Line of the Night: If you had Al Thornton (5.7) in your lineup yesterday, [...]

Big Ass Board – 3/30/08

A change to the Board with the big ass this week. I’ve adjusted the formula to give more weight to a guy’s recent performance instead of his year-to-date performance. I did this because, as Yoda taught me, it matters not what one has done, but what one will do. Or some crap like that. Notable [...]

Day 151 of 170: Greg Oden is Back Playing Basketball

Line of the Night: Kobe Bryant (5.8) by a Chicago mile*. Lets ignore the painful fact that the Lakers lost to the Grizzles, and focus on Kobe Bryant, the guy taking his recent look straight out of the Lisa ‘left Eye’ Lopes playbook. Kobe attempted an insane 17 threes and managed to hit 9 of [...]

Day 150 of 170: Jason Kidd is not retiring

Line of the Night: Jason Kidd (6.42) pulled out the first 6+ I’ve seen in a while. Or at least that I remember seeing. And reality and what I remember can be two vastly different things. Kidd had 19 points on 6/11, 4/5 and 3 threes. He also has 15 assists, 4 rebounds (no triple-double??), [...]