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FanHouse: Kevin Durant Seems Pleased With the Coaching Switch in Oklahoma City
BallerBlogger.com: The Fundamentals
Empty the Bench: Reading is Great! Monday Morning’s NBA News, Rumors, and Weekend Updates
Thunderguru.com: Worth a read: A nice article over at Basketball Prospectus, about the coaching change, the Thunder and how our star compares.
Kevin Durant Seems Pleased With the Coaching Switch in Oklahoma City
FanHouse —
... . (Pelton has since written a lot more on Brooks' background and goals.) The early returns suggest that's right: under Carlesimo on Friday against New Orleans, the Thunder had roughly 99 possessions (despite N.O. playing a slow brand of basketball). Under Brooks on Saturday, the pace was down to 86. It will take time to figure just how much Brooks will slow down the Thunder's attack, but a reverse Tony Barone wouldn't be a shock. (Barone took over for Mike Fratello early in 2006-07. The league's slowest team became one of the fastest overnight. Memphis still sucked, of course. ...
The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus: “Durant is undoubtedly the centerpiece of Oklahoma City’s rebuilding project, and it was his lack of development that ultimately doomed Carlesimo. It quickly became evident during Durant’s rookie season that he would not take the NBA by storm and dominate instantly as he had at Texas. By year’s end, he had shown progress, improving his efficiency over the last two months of the season while carrying a bigger load following the departure of Wally Szczerbiak and Wilcox’s absence due to injury. This year, ...
Reading is Great! Monday Morning’s NBA News, Rumors, and Weekend Updates
Empty the Bench —
... - The Dreamshake - Yao Ming > Dwight Howard, according to this Houston Rockets writer.
- ESPN - Charles Barkley and Dick Vitale headline this year’s list of Basketball HoF inductees.
- Sports Illustrated - An early look at the star-studded NBA free agent class of 2010.
- Fast Break - Don Nelson’s isolation-oriented offense: a good thing or a bad thing?
- Basketball Prospectus - Judge Scott Brooks by Kevin Durant’s development.
- ...
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Blazersedge —
It's a 3 day work week anyway so why don't you just blow off the next hour and read these? What a sales pitch.
Hendrickson and Pritchard talk Oden smiling.
One of the biggest differences Portland Trail Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard has noticed in Greg Oden has nothing to do with points, rebounds or blocks. In fact the recent change in the rookie center has little to do with basketball. "He's smiled every once in a while," Pritchard said. Perhaps that smiles-per-game stat was overlooked by many fans, but it has not gone unnoticed by the Blazers.
Have you ...
Worth a read: A nice article over at Basketball Prospectus, about the coaching change, the Thunder and how our star compares.
Thunderguru.com —
... , Kevin Pelton discusses the coaching change from P.J. to Brooks. Kevin has some unique insight in that he worked for the Sonics for several seasons, up until the move to Oklahoma City. He was the founder of the Sonicscentral.com blog, and has written many fine articles on basketball statistical analysis. His article about the Thunder and the coaching change is definitely worth a read. This entry was posted in ...
Fast Break Thoughts
Forum Blue And Gold —
... does the new and improved Cleveland Cavalier team (best offensive rating in the league so far) have what it takes to win a title? Coach Anthony Macri (of IMG) thinks they just might. I think there are three teams that could come out of the East right now, but Boston is still the team to beat. Cleveland, however, took them to seven last season before Mo Williams came on board.
Second, the first coaching change of the year took place in Oklahoma City. Kevin Pelton has a great look at the new coach there.
• Not far behind Carlisimo was Eddie Jordan in ...
FB&G: Fast Break Thoughts
The Lakers Nation —
... does the new and improved Cleveland Cavalier team (best offensive rating in the league so far) have what it takes to win a title? Coach Anthony Macri (of IMG) thinks they just might. I think there are three teams that could come out of the East right now, but Boston is still the team to beat. Cleveland, however, took them to seven last season before Mo Williams came on board.
Second, the first coaching change of the year took place in Oklahoma City. Kevin Pelton has a great look at the new coach there.
Not far behind Carlisimo was Eddie Jordan in ...
Twittering Suns vs. the Thunder City College Team
Fanster.com —
... odious 1-13 record and with a new head coach, Scott Brooks taking over for recently fired PJ Carlesimo. Under PJ, the team had been blown out, seemingly at will. Brooks has reshuffled the line-up to add greater scoring punch and moved Durant to SF, the position he played in college. Brooks has a heavy load to train all of these rookies not only to be good NBA players, but to be winners. Check out more analysis on this from Kevin Pelton at Basketball Prospectus, here. (Thanks to Joe at Thunderguru.com) ...
Twittering Suns vs. the Thunder City College Team
Bright Side Of The Sun —
... odious 1-13 record and with a new head coach, Scott Brooks taking over for recently fired PJ Carlesimo. Under PJ, the team had been blown out, seemingly at will. Brooks has reshuffled the line-up to add greater scoring punch and moved Durant to SF, the position he played in college. Brooks has a heavy load to train all of these rookies not only to be good NBA players, but to be winners. Check out more analysis on this from Kevin Pelton at Basketball Prospectus, here. (Thanks to Joe at Thunderguru.com) ...
