NBA Lockout Gameplan: Players Should Go Overseas
July 12, 2011 by The Sports Watchers
Filed under NBA, The Featured Sports
We were doing our best to refrain from lockout talk on TheSportsWatchers.com… until now. But we just couldn’t help ourselves. However, recent transactions have made it abundantly clear how the players can get some leverage in the NBA labor talks and bring the owners closer to their side of the debate. Quite frankly, this idea [...]
The NBA’s Best Players… It’s A Numbers Game
June 26, 2011 by Stat Watcher
Filed under More Sports, NBA, The Featured Sports
I’m a stat guy, but as most would agree, stats do not tell the entire story. That is why the NBA Playoffs is a conundrum for basketball stat geeks. Why? Well, it’s a numbers game. As a stat guy, I shouldn’t let a relatively small sample size trump the findings of a large sample size—especially [...]
The Miami Heat Are Not Your 2011 NBA Finals Champions
June 13, 2011 by Uzo Ometu
Filed under NBA, The Black Page, Zo Knows
Admit it, America. That’s what you feel right now. As great as it is that the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat in 6 games to win the 2011 NBA championship, it’s even sweeter for you that the Miami Heat lost in six. With all due respect to the Dallas Mavericks and Dirk Nowitzki, outside [...]
For the Miami Heat, Defense Wins Game 3
June 6, 2011 by The Sports Watchers
Filed under NBA
Defense wins championships. And when…I mean if the Miami Heat end up turning last night’s NBA Finals Game 3 victory into a championship over the Dallas Mavericks, it will 100% be because of their defense. In three games so far, the Mavericks have shot over 40% just one time, and that of course was the [...]
An Epic NBA Playoff Collapse: Five Reasons the Thunder Lost to Dallas
May 24, 2011 by The Sports Watchers
Filed under NBA
By now you have heard the news already. Last night’s Dallas Mavericks come-from-behind win over the Oklahoma City Thunder was the first time in 15 years that a team ever lost after having a 15-point lead with less than five minutes left in an NBA Playoff game. Needless to say, what happened to the Thunder [...]
The Heat Burn the Bulls and Kenny Smith’s Theory
May 23, 2011 by Uzo Ometu
Filed under NBA, The Black Page, Zo Knows
Dwyane Wade was feeling himself a little bit too much when he said the world was a better place since the Miami Heat were losing, but he certainly wasn’t wrong in suggesting that a lot of people didn’t care to see the Miami Heat and the Big Three thrive. And assuming that’s the case, then [...]
