Posts by Brett Koremenos
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Steve Nash, George Karl, and Others on Dirk Nowitzki and the Unguardable Play
A pick-and-pop, even if it’s between Ersan Ilyasova and Brandon Knight, is often a tough play to defend against. It’s a play that causes mismatches and gives an offense options. For most teams, it’s an effective tool. For the Dallas Mavericks, it’s an instrument of total destruction. Because no one has ever impacted the game […]
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Beat the Heat? How Brooklyn Turned Its Season Around, and How It Could Win the East
Rather than promoting a reserve big man to replace Brook Lopez, head coach Jason Kidd chose to completely remake the team’s image. Kidd asked everyone to move up a position, and former prodigy turned journeyman guard Shaun Livingston eventually got tapped to round out the starting lineup. It’s always a bold move to change your team’s identity so drastically on the fly, but so far it’s paid off handsomely for the Nets.
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Surviving Bo Ryan’s War on Wisconsin Basketball, and Loving the Badgers Just the Same
Basketball is being played faster and more aggressively than ever before, yet here is Ryan gaming the system with his über-conservative approach. Go slow, don’t turn the ball over, play defense. Ryan champions smash mouth in the era of the spread. It leads to wins, but basketball doesn’t get more unappealing than that.
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How’s Your Draft Stock? Scouting Stauskas, Napier, Early, and More
With the Round of 16 just a day away, it’s a good time to take stock of a few of the more intriguing prospects we’ve been watching in the early rounds of the tournament.
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Anatomy of the Upsets: How Coach K, Bill Self, and Jim Boeheim Could Have Avoided Tourney Losses
That three of the better teams in the tournament crashed out early isn’t much of an anomaly; Cinderella needs evil sisters, after all. What is somewhat shocking, however, is how all three met their fates.
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Who’s That Guy? Cincinnati Coach Mick Cronin
After some initial struggles, Cronin now has the Bearcats back among college basketball’s elite.
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An Arsenal Fan and an Everton Fan Talk About the FA Cup
Winning a cup would be a nice boost for either of the team’s respective fan bases.
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This Trade Is Successful! Fake Trades to Pass the Time Until the Deadline
In order to avoid the trade deadline blues, I took it upon myself to concoct a couple of ridiculously convoluted yet somehow borderline-plausible trade scenarios that need to happen in order to ramp up the intrigue.
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Stuck in the Middle: The Milwaukee Bucks’ Dilemma
Operating under Bucks owner Herb Kohl’s strict “eighth seed or bust” mandate has always made it difficult to evaluate GM John Hammond’s time in charge. Tearing the team down and building from scratch has never been an option.
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Two Roads Diverged in a Tanking Wood: Kyrie, Boogie, and the Different Paths to Rebuilding
Cleveland and Sacramento have taken different approaches to building around foundational talents in recent years, despite being in similar situations.
