For the billionth time, some of the venerable NBA players of the past insist that the world was better in their day. This sentiment is now coalescing around the argument that the 2015-16 Warriors couldn’t beat their old teams. Here’s…
Author: Harlan Schreiber
Fisher Fired…A Mistake?
Coaches are starting to drop. This time we are asked to make sense of the firing of Knicks coach Derek Fisher. Was this firing justified? Sort of. Let’s weigh the pros and cons: Pros/reasons to keep Fisher -Fisher was hired…
Blake Griffin and other NBA Punchers
This week, the Clippers revealed that Blake Griffin broke his hand fighting with the team’s assistant strength coach. The details are sketchy but, according to a Los Angeles Times report, Griffin and the coach are good friends and that the…
Did Blatt deserve to be fired?
What to make of the short tenure of David Blatt with the Cavs? The team was 30-11 and leading the East but had struggled against the best of the best, having been waxed by the Warriors and Spurs. Was Blatt’s…
Plexiglass Review: Milwaukee and Atlanta
Putting aside the Warriors, the biggest surprise success stories of 2014-15 were the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks. The Bucks morphed from deep Lottery team to a bona fide playoff team, while Atlanta went from fringe playoff team to…