Basketball from a fans perspective
They are trading him?
Basketball especially at the NBA level is more than scoring points,
don’t tell that to ex-Mizzou combo guard Jordan Clarkson.
Reports have circulated the Lakers are attempting to trade him, Clarkson’s scored 62 points aiding the team to two consecutive
victories. Friday evening it was 33
points against the Pacers and Sunday afternoon it was the Knicks who became his
latest victim. Clarkson emerging off the
bench once again scored 29 points along with 10 assists and 6 rebounds leading to a 127-107 victory.
The season is over in
January
Tacko Fall is done for the season, it’s been reported the 7-foot
6-inch Central Florida center faces shoulder surgery. Fall hurt the shoulder last summer and has
played through the injury. This might
answer several questions regarding his strength issues, earlier I mentioned
what I perceived an inability to secure rebounds. Hopefully the surgery will be successful, and
he returns for his senior year at UCF.
Bueller?, Bueller?,
Bueller?
The line above is from Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off the 1986 movie classic.
Economics teacher Ben Stein’s character is calling out names of class
members with the morning roll call. This
is done of course to determine who is in attendance, who is in attendance ready
to defend Clippers Coach Doc Rivers coaching ability? Certainly not me, I’ve long believed he
receives more credit as a coach than is due him. I’m not going to deal with his time as
president of player operations a job he no longer holds, the X’s and O’s are
the focus.
In addition, the ability to motivate his team are key questions
for us to address. In 2000 Rivers was
named NBA Coach of the Year, in 2008 as head coach he led the Celtics to the
NBA Championship. In 2013 he moved to
the Clippers where he’s remained. The
Clippers have made the playoffs in his four years as head coach and have never
played for the Western Conference Championship.
The Clippers have won 18 while losing 22 in the playoffs under Rivers despite
one first place and three second place finishes in the Pacific Division.
Bits
n Pieces
This might sound like an indictment against Cody Zeller, that is not the intention. I was familiar with Indiana University basketball and Zeller
but had not witness his play. I checked
the guide for the next game, Victor Oladipo who was an unknown to me at the
time had an outstanding game. Funny how
you intend to do one thing and something else occurs.
Mizzou has K.J. Santos arriving in the fall, the 6-foot 8-inch
forward is playing at Tallahassee Community College. I’m watching the Houston-Wichita State game
and the graphic on a free-throw shooter indicated he attended a junior college
prior to Houston. I wrote of this in the
recent past, junior colleges once fertile recruiting ground for D-I programs appear
to no longer exist. Athletes lacking
grades for a D-I program or those requiring additional skill training were
enrolled in junior colleges across the nation.
We saw a different side of Matt Barnes in this Vice Sports profile,
you know what to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_-f7-Q2l88
