Friday's List of 12: Random thoughts for a fall weekend
13) NBA officials are starting to call traveling. Seriously. They call palming, walking and now call technicals anytime a player waves his arms while protesting a call. Progress!!!
12) Carmelo Anthony was #1 high-profile victim of this zero tolerance policy against bitching, as he was tossed with 8:22 left in 3rd quarter with Denver trailing 56-54, after being called for his third palming violation of the night. Getting a pair of technicals in a close game is pretty immature stuff, especially in first game of a season.
11) So Clippers win by a point; with Anthony getting his two technicals and then not playing for last 20:22 of game, it isn't unreasonable to blame his immaturity for his team being 0-1.
10) Knicks' triple OT win Wednesday was longest season opener in NBA since Oct 18, 1974, when the Trailblazers beat Cleveland 131-129, in four OTs.
9) So Brian Cashman said Lee Mazzilli (fired as bench coach) isn't scapegoat for Bronx' playoff failures; but since he's only person who's been fired, what does that make him? Unlucky?
8) SEC has ruled that South Carolina can't play their recording of rooster crowing while clock is running; can you imagine sitting in on the meeting where this was voted on?
7) Last five NBA teams that led the league in scoring all had Steve Nash as their point guard.
6) Evgeni Melkin of Penguins is first NHL player in 89 years to score a goal in each of the first six games of his career.
5) I am surprised more NBA teams don't go to zone defenses when second units are on floor. Subs are less talented, so it makes sense that they wouldn't be able to score as well when facing various defenses.
4) Don't want to say the NBA has a long regular season, but the Tigers lost the World Series six days ago; when the NBA playoffs begin, the '07 baseball season will already be three weeks old.
3) If you spend any time at all on NBA.com, you get deluged with reminders that the NBA All-Star Game is in Las Vegas in February. I feel bad for whatever city has the All-Star Game next season, because Vegas is a tough act to follow.
2) Pretty good sports weekend in Kentucky; West Virginia at Louisville Thursday, the whole Breeders' Cup thing Saturday and Georgia at Kentucky in Lexington. Not a bad weekend to eat some Fischer's Franks and enjoy the action.
13) NBA officials are starting to call traveling. Seriously. They call palming, walking and now call technicals anytime a player waves his arms while protesting a call. Progress!!!
12) Carmelo Anthony was #1 high-profile victim of this zero tolerance policy against bitching, as he was tossed with 8:22 left in 3rd quarter with Denver trailing 56-54, after being called for his third palming violation of the night. Getting a pair of technicals in a close game is pretty immature stuff, especially in first game of a season.
11) So Clippers win by a point; with Anthony getting his two technicals and then not playing for last 20:22 of game, it isn't unreasonable to blame his immaturity for his team being 0-1.
10) Knicks' triple OT win Wednesday was longest season opener in NBA since Oct 18, 1974, when the Trailblazers beat Cleveland 131-129, in four OTs.
9) So Brian Cashman said Lee Mazzilli (fired as bench coach) isn't scapegoat for Bronx' playoff failures; but since he's only person who's been fired, what does that make him? Unlucky?
8) SEC has ruled that South Carolina can't play their recording of rooster crowing while clock is running; can you imagine sitting in on the meeting where this was voted on?
7) Last five NBA teams that led the league in scoring all had Steve Nash as their point guard.
6) Evgeni Melkin of Penguins is first NHL player in 89 years to score a goal in each of the first six games of his career.
5) I am surprised more NBA teams don't go to zone defenses when second units are on floor. Subs are less talented, so it makes sense that they wouldn't be able to score as well when facing various defenses.
4) Don't want to say the NBA has a long regular season, but the Tigers lost the World Series six days ago; when the NBA playoffs begin, the '07 baseball season will already be three weeks old.
3) If you spend any time at all on NBA.com, you get deluged with reminders that the NBA All-Star Game is in Las Vegas in February. I feel bad for whatever city has the All-Star Game next season, because Vegas is a tough act to follow.
2) Pretty good sports weekend in Kentucky; West Virginia at Louisville Thursday, the whole Breeders' Cup thing Saturday and Georgia at Kentucky in Lexington. Not a bad weekend to eat some Fischer's Franks and enjoy the action.
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