Here is my first off season Friday Basketball BLOG. The topic was suggested by an MBRer with the user name of “lovethegame” who was the first MBRer to respond with a topic when I asked for basketball topics for my off season weekly basketball BLOG in the BDN. He also was the person who suggested […]
Someone asked me the other day, “what was harder? For a Maine High School Boys basketball team to win a state championship or for the UMaine men’s college basketball team to win the America East Tournament and win it’s first trip ever to the NCAA’ “Big Dance”? I thought for a minute and said, “let […]
Being an unorthodox thinking basketball person throughout my entire career as a basketball player, coach, official. Radio/TV Color Commentator, Author and currently as a basketball writer as an octogenarian now here’s many unorthodox suggestions about new possible method strategies to help more successfully recruit the best of Maine high school basketball players for the UMaine […]
Here are the stats that I said I would post to compare Embiid’s and Jokic’s regular season and playoff stats used in selecting them to the first and second All-NBA teams. This article is to go along with my latest weekly BLOG this past Tuesday about “basketball players playing basketball versus athletes playing basketball. Regular […]
SPECIAL MIDDLE OF THE WEEK BASKETBALL BLOG EDITION. There is no question that the game of basketball has become much more athletic over the years. It is more athletes playing basketball versing fewer basketball players playing basketball except maybe for the international NBA players of which there are 108 of 450 roster spots. But, there […]
I have been writing and posting on MBR (Maine Basketball Report) and here in my “Off the Rim” column all year about how most basketball players at any level be it middle school, high school, AAU, college or even the NBA do not use the correct hand up when defending a shooter. Guarding a player […]
The NCAA men’s basketball rules committee is going to recommend two major rule changes for the coming 2019-20 season. The first is increasing the 3 point shot distance from it;s current 20’9″ from the center of the basket to the international distance which is 22 feet 1 3/4 inches and the second is setting of […]
IT’S BACK AGAIN. Game seven of the best 4 of 7 semi-final western Conference series saw the Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Denver Nuggets on Denver’s home court as the ball seems to get bigger and heavier and the rim seems to get smaller and further away for 3 point shots in the elimination games […]
I KNOW THIS IS OFF TOPIC FOR THIS THREAD, BUT HERE IS A SPECIAL EDITION BLOG: What do you think the chances were that the Boston Celtics in their 2nd consecutive win or go home or one and done playoff games would shoot an identical 7 for 39 for 3 point shot for just 17.9%? […]
With the NBA playoffs going full steam ahead the 3 point shot has seemed to become even more important this season for teams to be successful. So let’s look at the magical number 3 in 3 point shooting in the NBA. The NBA’s 3 point line is 23 feet 9 inches from the center of […]
