iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Now that the 2017-18 NBA season has eked pasts its quarter-pole mark, rumor has it we’re free to hand out report grades for every team. So, you know, let’s do that! Hardwood Knocks will begin with the Western Conference’s jumble of craziness. And
Tyson Chandler and DeAndre Jordan. They’re the go-to examples of a distinctive NBA archetype: the athletic center who patrols the paint on defense and rolls to the rim on offense. They’re also the players to whom scouts and analysts compared Willie Cauley-Stein ahead of the
Welcome to the second production of Tin Hat Stats here at the small-sample theatre! Last month, we talked about the inevitable fall of Nikola Vucevic’s true shooting percentage (it fell from 62.4 to 55.2), the eventual rise of the Houston Rockets three-point numbers (they are
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Y’all: Here’s the mail. It never fails. It makes us wanna wag our tails. When it comes, we wanna wail MAAAAAIIIIIL! In this week’s Hardwood Knocks mailbag, our deep dive into listener questions leads to hypothetical trades for the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers, Washington Wizards, Memphis Grizzlies,
The New Orleans Pelicans shocked the NBA world last year when they acquired DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings at the end of All-Star Weekend. In a league that is getting smaller by the day, the move went against conventional wisdom, pairing two of basketball’s
Ball-dominant players who have a track record for being unable to make long-distance shots typically receive heaps of criticism. Players like Marcus Smart, Elfrid Payton, Ricky Rubio and Rajon Rondo each possess an array of beneficial skills, but their shooting woes are firmly ingrained into the
Welcome to the debut of Swishes with Sampson, where I’ll take a weekly look around the NBA and share five things I found, let’s say, interesting. Some of them may be good, and some may be bad. Some of them might be otherwise. I’ll let
Before 2015, they were considered creatures of fantasy. Now, you can’t stray too far in the NBA without bumping into a unicorn. Last year, the conversation around the NBA’s new phenomenon crystalized. You had Joel Embiid’s transcendent performance—excellence matched only by its brevity. A certain Serbian