Commentary

It had been a relatively rocky road for Brandon Bass this postseason prior to Game 5 last night. After getting neutralized by Josh Smith for the majority of the first round series against Atlanta, Doc ...

There’s this thing in math called the Golden Ratio. You, of course, know The Golden Ratio as Ace of Base’s fifth album, but it’s also a relationship between two numbers that shows up all over the place in art and nature. It basicall...

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images FIRST ROUND EDITION It’s funny how the playoffs work. You beat a team in five games, which seems kind of like it was easy. But it was most definitely not easy. The Thunder had to fight for a second round gentlema...

After four games the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat are dead even. Now the Pacers have to attempt to brush off historic performances from Lebron James and Dwyane Wade and travel to Miami for Game 5. Along with every other sports outlet in the country,...

In the fourth quarter of Game 4, the Celtics ran into a bit of a problem. Out of the multitude of issues they faced while completing their 18-pound collapse, one of the biggest was rebounding. Boston surrendered five offensive rebounds, leading to fo...

In March, Ryan Hollins couldn’t get minutes on a below-average Cleveland Cavaliers team. Now he’s the first big off the bench on a team with a reasonable chance to make it to the NBA Finals. Keep that kind of perspective in mind while re...

The Heat’s three-point shooting against the Pacers has been a joke. Collectively, they have shot 5-for-42 (11.9%) over the past three games. This, as much as the loss of Chris Bosh and struggles of Dwyane Wade, has helped Indiana jump out to a...

A few weeks before the playoffs Geroge Hill got the chance to start at point guard due to an injury to Darren Collison. George Hill played well enough that Frank Vogel declared him starter the rest of the way. A few were questioning the decision to...

I’m not sure when the pick-and-roll was invented, but it was probably about three weeks after James Naismith hung a peach basket on a pole. It is among the most basic offensive actions a team can run and it has been a staple play of virtually e...

Note: I don’t get to watch live basketball, especially if it happens in the Eastern Time Zone. Often after watching a game late at night, I find myself lying in bed, unable to sleep, with thoughts like these clomping around in my head. I think...

The Indiana Pacers defeated the Miami Heat 94-75 on Thursday night to take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. There are some things that are easy to grab onto to explain the win. Roy Hibbert finally punished the a small, depleted fron...

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images Thunder fans sat in horror in the fourth quarter of Game 2 watching Oklahoma City labor on the offensive end, trying to find just a single point at a time. An amazing thing really, considering this was one of the two bes...