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Blocks Not Just a Defensive Stat Anymore

Matt Moore flirted with the shot blocked stat earlier this year in this very space but his love affair phased out as the season went on.  It’s a shame really because %Blkd awareness has plummeted ever since.  What is %Blkd? It’s the percentage of a player’s shots that get blocked.  Simple enough.  Although, it’s not [...]

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Carl Landry’s Return

It was bittersweet last night seeing Carl Landry in a Kings jersey.  While the memories of his time with the Houston Rockets are still fresh in my mind, I stopped to marvel at just how far he has come in his career, starting as a little-known second round pick and now being featured as the [...]

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Houston Rockets’ Chuck Hayes Getting More National Attention

The New York Times: Hayes, in his fifth season out of Kentucky, is a product of his own grit, but also representative of the league’s evolution. Quick, penetrating guards are benefiting from the league’s ban on defensive hand-checking, and teams have relied more on pick-and-rolls to create defensive mismatches. In response, some organizations have placed [...]

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Houston Rockets 102 – LA Clippers 85

It wouldn’t be a Red94 game review without me expressing indignation toward a slight of Chuck Hayes.  9:30 into the 1st, the Clippers broadcast crew relates to us that when told before the game that he would be guarded by the 6’5 Hayes, Chris Kaman responded saying, “They better double team me.”  So naturally Kaman [...]

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Phoenix Suns 111, Houston Rockets 105

•The first thing that jumps out at me in viewing the box score is that despite scoring a career high 27 points, Carl Landry had the lowest +/- on the team at -17. Conversely, Chuck Hayes had the second highest at +4. I found this to be pretty amusing. •With 11.6 seconds left in the [...]

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