Harlan Schreiber

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 number one seed in the East.  Both teams were considered strong candidates to decline this year based upon Bill James’ Plexiglass Principle, which states that teams that tend to have huge improvements regress the following season.  The assumption is that a … [Read more...] about Plexiglass Review: Milwaukee and Atlanta

Most fans, me included, hate it when legal issues affect the game on the court.  Still, these lawsuits can create a nice little record of a place and time and remind us of what was (see our review of Donald Sterling’s legal travails).  Periodically, we find from some nice little time capsules that we have all forgotten.  By popping up some of these old bubbles, we sometimes can have a little fun and learn a bit players’ careers on the court too. Such is the case with a forgotten lawsuit filed … [Read more...] about Chris Childs v. the Nets

This week, the Suns suspended Markieff Morris for throwing a towel at coach Jeff Hornacek while on the sideline during a loss to Denver.  There has been much frustration to go around between the Suns poor start this year and Morris’ pre-season trade demand after his brother Marcus was traded to Detroit.   Coaches and players fight all the time but the dreaded towel toss usually pops up when things are particularly messy.  Does the towel toss really mean things are really so dire?  Maybe.  … [Read more...] about Markieff Morris and Throwing in the Towel

With the Warriors off to an incredible start the natural inclination is to compare the Warriors to some of the All-Time greats.  Could the Warriors beat the best of All-Time?  This kind of hypothetical question isn’t really answerable but hypotheticals are fun.  If we are going to go down that road, there are really two ways to assess the issue.  First, compare the teams’ dominance of their peers.  The second is to run through a lineup dream matchup and make educated guesses about the how the … [Read more...] about 1995-96 Bulls v. 2015-16 Warriors, a brief look