Category Archives: The Daily Blast

The Climb – The Rockets edged up into the sixth seed in the West this weekend thanks to a blowout win over Sacramento, and Golden State’s not-at-all-suspicious loss to the Lakers in a game with a 50-16 free throw disparity. This is beneficial to the Rockets, so please disperse.  To be fair to the Lakers [...]

Shutout – Sadly, in ESPN’s consideration of end-of-season awards and the All-NBA first team, not a single Rockets player was nominated. Surprising, since Omer Asik and James Harden have generated buzz about the Most Improved Player Award all season long. Tom Haberstroh (Insider) gave Harden a little love in his MVP column, even though the [...]

The Hangover – Tuesday night’s ranking of the NBA’s top players by ESPN was a jumping-off point for some great analysis of how those rankings stack up to the data. Ian Levy at Hickory-High examined those players based on  Win Shares, Wins Produced, and VORP (Value Over Replacement Player). Guess who came out smelling like [...]

  The Clinch: Alternate Angles – Since NBA TV can snatch up any game for it’s Fan Night, eliminating the game from League Pass, I digested the game via ESPN Gamecast–one of the most ulcer-inducing sports media in existence. But that also means I’ll remember the winning basket differently from most. It came across the [...]

Weird – There were no NBA games last night. I guess they wanted to give all those guys a much-earned rest or something. We really get spoiled by getting to watch basketball being played on the highest level night after night. Not last night, though. All That Power – The Rockets held steady at no. [...]