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Indy’s Roy Hibbert uses decrease techniques to find middle peace/rebounds

Roy Hibbert, in a low pondering state (Getty Images)

We’ve prolonged been fans of Roy Hibbert’s here during Ball Don’t Lie, and his new appearances and certified fandom of “Parks and Recreation” sent that indebtedness by a roof progressing this year. With each flitting diversion into this lockout-shortened season, though, we’re anticipating some-more and some-more ways to puncture what Hibbert is bringing. He should arrange among a NBA’s many softened players this season, and to hear Hibbert tell it, it’s since he’s behaving like reduction of a “spaz” on a court.

The guy, apparently, is operative some balmy mind tricks on a sideline to settle his boundary down. From a good Mike Wells during a Indianapolis Star:

At a same time, Hibbert started decrease exercises to assistance palliate his mind.

That, along with 15 pounds of combined muscle, have done Hibbert roughly a unchanging in a double-double dialect in points and rebounds for a Pacers (7-3) this season. He’s tied for fourth in a joining in double-doubles with six.

“I’ve been doing, as crazy as it competence sound, a lot of decrease exercises to try and change my temperament,” Hibbert said. “Sometimes we tend to spaz out on a court. This time I’m vouchsafing things go and I’m perplexing to play some-more focused.”

The formula aren’t drifting off a page, though a closer demeanour during a numbers (because we’re sum spazzes, ‘ere) reveals a argent start to Hibbert’s season. Because Roy is usually personification dual some-more mins per diversion this season, his 1.4-point and 2.4-rebound per-game jumps won’t play we over, though each bit helps.

Hibbert is creation 54 percent of his looks after unwell to make half of his attempts from a building in his 3 prior seasons, and his mins per diversion should spike once Indiana manager Frank Vogel realizes that he’s fouling far, distant fewer times. Hibbert averaged a whopping 7.7 fouls for each 36 mins he played behind in 2008-09, and that’s down to 3.2 per 36 this season. His scoring has shot adult notwithstanding fewer shot attempts, and he’s also anchoring Indy’s fourth-ranked defense.

He’s also on “Parks and Rec.” Come on, Frank.

Roy? Chop wood, lift water. Chop wood, lift water. Chop wood, lift water.

Other renouned calm on a Y! network:
• Dr. Saturday: Penn State explains because it dismissed Joe Paterno
• ThePostGame: Troy Polamalu gets out of $10,000 phone bill
• Weekend Watch: Indiana goes for Ohio State hoops sweep
• Y! Autos: Hits, misses in Detroit Auto Show

Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:26 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Frank Vogel, Roy Hibbert, Saturday Penn State, Weekend Watch Indiana.

Video: Comedian Jon Dore finds an NBA alternative

Jon Dore is hilarious. Of this, there is no question. Through his several radio shows, stand-up routines and podcast appearances, he’s consistently brought a dry wit that we can entirely get behind. A bearded wit, as well. A lot of people are doing that these days.

And this remote piece, shot for “Conan,” is an instance of such:

You have to conclude anyone that boasts a smarts adequate to know that a NBA owners sealed out their players final year (that this wasn’t a “strike,”) while braggadocio a benevolence to ask a 9-year-old if he’s a Communist. And Micah? The child who kept articulate about “restricted players”? He could learn extension-happy NBA GMs a thing or 14.

Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:26 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged NBA, Ohio State, Saturday Penn State, Weekend Watch Indiana.

Photo: Rasheed Wallace is hovering, returning …

“Wallace, who late after 15 seasons in 2010, has been operative out and probing some tighten joining friends about probable destinations to pointer for a rest of a season, sources said.

When reached on Friday, Wallace’s agent, Bill Strickland, would usually tell Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears: “As a maestro player, [Wallace] knows what it takes to be reinstated.”

One NBA GM with intensity seductiveness in signing Wallace said, “I’d be disturbed about his conditioning in a precipitated season.”

Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:24 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Bill Strickland.

Kevin Durant’s film has an central pun-filled title

Kevin Durant (Leon Bennett/Getty)

Over a past few months, we have posted several updates on a standing of Kevin Durant’s new film. The plot, from what we knew, endangered Durant swapping his talents with those of a high propagandize also-ran, arrange of like that one partial of “Space Jam” blown adult to a underline film with a extremely smaller budget. It can’t miss!

Now, we have even some-more information on what’s certain to be a best film of whichever year it hits theaters. Here are some-more sum from Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman (via Marcel Mutoni):

Durant will be filming scenes for “Thunderstruck” in Oklahoma City in a subsequent few days, including a event that is scheduled to be shot inside Chesapeake Energy Arena on Tuesday, Jan. 23. The studio’s strange devise was to fire footage during a preseason game, though a lockout-shortened deteriorate singular a Thunder to usually one preseason home diversion as any group dealt with a rushed start to a season. It’s probable that filmmakers will fire movement during a Jan. 23 home diversion opposite Detroit and/or a Jan. 25 home diversion opposite New Orleans.

The bulk of filming was finished in Baton Rouge, La. behind in September. But before to a film being completed, certain shots that can usually be constructed in Oklahoma City contingency be captured. The film has been postulated permit from a NBA to use a Thunder’s name and trademark and other joining property, definition genuine diversion footage will be used and Durant will be seen in his Thunder jersey, presumably with teammates and Thunder manager Scott Brooks creation cameos.

So, if we see Durant blank lots of shots opposite a Pistons or Hornets, do not be alarmed. He’s an artist who unequivocally gets into his characters. It’s called Method acting, and it’s totally legitimate.

The genuine story here, of course, is a title, that is flattering most ideal for a lightsome family film of this sort. Not usually is it a good joke on Durant’s team, though it’ll also concede for a good impulse in a trailer (and climax) when a AC/DC strain plays and everybody gets pumped for some heated basketball action. Or, if a studio wants to save some money, we’ll hear a legally sound duplicate of a tough stone classic. It’ll be only as awesome, I’m sure.

Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:24 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Baton Rouge, Marcel Mutoni Durant, Oklahoma City, Scott Brooks.

Chuck Hayes is set to accept a many doubtful video reverence in NBA history

Chuck Hayes (Getty Images)

Center Chuck Hayes scored 1854 points widespread out over 6 seasons as a Houston Rocket. For comparison’s sake, Kobe Bryant has surfaced that series 9 times in a singular deteriorate during his career, and 1854 was also a year the Powhattan shipwrecked in a Atlantic Ocean, ensuing in New Jersey’s contingent construction of a Absecon lighthouse after that year.

Kind of an peculiar non-comparison, right? Well, it arrange of dovetails into a fact that Hayes, who now plays for a Sacramento Kings, will accept a video tribute from a Rockets on Friday night when Hayes’ Kings take on a Rockets in Houston in what will expected be a many problematic video reverence in NBA history. Why? Because Hayes (who averaged only 4.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per diversion in his time with a Rockets before withdrawal for Sacto as a giveaway agent), is a badass. That’s why. From a Houston Chronicle’s Jonathan Feigen:

“I don’t know how I’m going to react,” Hayes said. “My son asked, ‘Are they going to disapprove you?’ we don’t know. It’s going to be weird. This city was good to me. This classification was good for me. we appreciate them. we unequivocally do cruise Houston home. Will we get teared up? we don’t know.

“Personally, it’s only overwhelming. It’s strenuous a event that was given to me. I’m grateful to a Sacramento Kings. we consider about a tour it took to get to this point, to be a oldster on a team, to be financially stable, to be a indication in a joining of being a glue guy.”

Feigen conspicuous in his square that Hayes, who is 6-foot-6, stays a shortest starting core in NBA history, a conspicuous attainment deliberation a expansion of a pro diversion over a final 65 years, and a bizarre version deliberation that a male he transposed (Yao Ming) during a position stood a full feet taller than him. Hayes, to these eyes, might have a best interior defensive footwork I’ve ever seen.

But don’t take it from these eyes. Take it from Kevin Garnett’s smoldering glare:

Congrats, Chuck. Couldn’t occur to a nicer, some-more honourable man.

Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:25 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Chuck Hayes, NBA, Sacramento Kings, Yao Ming.

Video: Donte Greene helps out with a matrimony proposal

A matrimony offer is one of a many heated and scariest things a male can do for a lady he loves (or any multiple of people — we are on-going during BDL). Even if a proposer is wholly certain that a proposee will contend “yes,” there’s unequivocally no protected or normal approach to tell another chairman that it’d be a good thought to spend a rest of their lives with any other. It’s a preference governed by heated emotion, not logic, and a offer contingency simulate that bond. For instance, when my hermit recently due to his girlfriend, he recreated their initial date but creation a devise explicit. And it worked!

Not all proposals are so personal, though, and that’s fine. Sometimes, it creates some-more clarity to have a towel-waving NBA actor assistance out. So, when a Kings fan wanted to introduce to his partner during a really special “Turducken Day” celebration — whatever that is — he enlisted a assistance of NBA gadfly Donte Greene. As befits a male who brings fun to a faces of all those who accommodate him, Donte helped secure an certain response.

Your move, Hassan Whiteside.

(via Cowbell Kingdom and TBJ)

Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:25 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Cowbell Kingdom, Donte Greene, NBA, Turducken Day.

Danny Ainge thinks a Celtics demeanour old, and uses modernized stats

Danny Ainge searches for a compose (Getty Images)

Danny Ainge did not use a word “old.” But Alex Speier of WEEI used a word “old,” and asked a Boston Celtics GM if a Celtics have looked aged 9 games into their season. Ainge resolved that “that’s a satisfactory assessment, right now.”

So, since I’m a blogger, we can contend that a Celtics are old. Danny Ainge pronounced so.

And, since we have half a mind and we have even more, here’s a rest of Danny’s spot-on, nuanced take:

“I consider there’s dual things that arrange of mount out. I’m not holding a nine-game sample. I’m looking during what has been a pattern, and what has been a weakness, over a final 3 years with this organisation of guys,” said Ainge. “For 3 years now, we have been a misfortune descent resilient group in basketball. The second thing is, a execution of a offense, a descent potency in a final 5 mins of a game, we consider those dual things have got to be improved. we don’t indispensably know since that hasn’t happened. It’s not usually personnel, since we’ve had a lot of good descent rebounders on this team.”

Ainge afterwards went on to indicate out something that fans and even those who cover teams on radio or in imitation mostly skip out on. That tender stats, alone, can’t tell a whole story. Stats can, yet tender stats (like Denver’s discerning gait heading to 37 assists on Wednesday night, or Luol Deng’s 15 rebounds in a Wednesday win in a competition with 125 missed shots and giveaway throws), are to be looked during with a heedful eye.

Here’s Danny, deliberating his team’s continued arrange during a bottom finish of both descent rebounds per diversion and descent miscarry percentage:

“It’s not formed on sharpened percentage. When we speak about descent rebounding, we’re articulate about descent miscarry percentage. If we fire 40-for-80, there’s 40 resilient opportunities when we skip and we get 8 of those, that’s 20 percent. That’s what we’re personification at. It’s not enough. We’ve got to get adult to 25 percent, to a center of a pack.”

Because of Rajon Rondo’s iffy scoring hold in a half-court, Kevin Garnett’s wispy support in a post, and a perfect volume of work it takes to giveaway Ray Allen for a shot late in games, Paul Pierce has to turn some-more of a hazard towards a finish of games. It’s an peculiar thing to contend for a actor that might have been a NBA’s tip late-game choice for years, even yet Boston’s gaunt times, yet a C’s continue to remove tighten contests even yet they enter a fourth with a 2.7 points per diversion normal (good for 12th in a NBA).

Throw in a team’s inability to squeeze second chances, and we have a frustrating 4-5 group to behold. We consider Danny was being rather tactful, though, and we’re also pity in his apparent faith that a Celtics still have adequate to not usually make an coming in a Eastern Conference finals or Finals, yet make some sound among a NBA’s final 4 in June.

Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:24 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Danny Ainge, NBA, Rajon Rondo, WEEI.

Chris Bosh thinks Dwyane Wade should be a Heat’s closer

LeBron James is totally sceptical of Dwyane Wade (Isaac Baldizon/Getty).

Ever given “The Decision,” a basketball cognoscenti have argued over who should take over in break time for a Miami Heat. Dwyane Wade has proven his eagerness in a shutting moments of games many times, as has LeBron James, even if people don’t always like to acknowledge it. However, there are expectations for LeBron as a once-in-a-generation talent, and any conditions in that he doesn’t take over down a widen reflects feeble on him for many of a basketball-watching public.

Still, James and Wade are on a same team, and a preference over who should be a categorical man during a finish of games can’t be tangible by a expectations we’ve placed on one of those players given he was 16 years old. In fact, a third member of Miami’s contingent of stars thinks a preference is flattering easy. Here’s what Chris Bosh had to contend in an speak with Mark Anthony Green in this month’s GQ (via TBJ):

GQ: Quick hypothetical, toes aside: Let’s contend a diversion was tied. 10 seconds left. You had 30 points, LeBron’s got 30, and Wade’s got 30. You got a same volume of rebounds, same volume of assists—having a same good game. Who takes a shot during a finish to possibly win or lax a game.
Chris Bosh: [immediately] Dwyane.

GQ: Why?
Chris Bosh: Because of his success in a past, given what he’s done. He’s a champ. He’s an MVP, and he’s strike a garland of last-second shots. That’s a time we have to put honour aside a small bit, and do what’s best for a team. He’s quickest, and he’s gonna get a shot off. He relishes those moments.

On a other hand, Bosh also says that Wade has a best character on a team, not counting him, so maybe he only wants to get on his good side. we hear that man throws a best parties.

More seriously, though, Bosh’s comments pronounce to a plea during palm for James as he tries to change opinions about his late-game failures. As Bosh notes, Wade is intensely befitting to be a descent focal indicate during a ends of games: he’s finished it before, he’s a good player, and he also has a some-more sundry scoring arsenal than LeBron. The bad news for James, in that situation, is that scoring tends to relate to opinions about purchase opening — a actor who doesn’t make jumpers to win games isn’t clutch, during slightest not in a approach that creates him estimable of being talked about in a same exhale as a biggest players of all time. Even if a Heat win a championship, it competence not matter to LeBron’s repute as prolonged as Wade is a one scoring during a finish of games.

What LeBron has to do to win hearts and minds, then, is recast a judgment of late-game heroics. While he’s a good scorer, his strength has always been in versatility. If Wade does a bulk of a scoring, afterwards LeBron can assistance out on a boards, or with assists, or generally by personification lockdown invulnerability when it matters most, as he did in a Eastern Conference Finals opposite Derrick Rose final season. More than anything, he needs to be LeBron James, not form to a customary for star play in break time laid out by Michael Jordan.

In something of a positive, LeBron seemed to comprehend that final night opposite a Clippers. While he didn’t modify a immeasurable infancy of his opportunities, both from a margin and a line (which might be a box of bad luck), James played with an aggressiveness that’s been blank from his new late-game failures. He gathering to a basket in a demeanour suggestive of his early-career game-winners opposite a Washington Wizards, generally looking like he had a devise for scoring. He wasn’t wholly successful, though he wasn’t a large failure, either: a giveaway throws he did make sent a diversion into overtime during a time when a Heat were carrying difficulty formulating anything on offense. He was rushed during times, and not altogether impressive, though he wasn’t embarrassing.

It competence seem peculiar to speak about a actor of LeBron’s talents in such competent terms, though during this indicate in his career it’s value articulate about continual swell rather than either-or cases of disaster and greatness. Improvement takes time. And even if Bosh is right that Wade should take a shots with games on a line, that doesn’t meant LeBron can’t browbeat when it depends by being a best chronicle of himself he can be. It’ll only need everybody who watches him to recalibrate their expectations and consider him for what he is.

Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:24 am Leave a Comment

This post is filed under NBA and tagged Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, GQ, Mark Anthony Green.