by Matt Zemek | May 2, 2015
Life is full of surprises. As the NBA playoffs move into the second round (with Game 7 between the Spurs and Clippers about to tip off at press time), we are confronted with a situation that is not necessarily an unassailable, airtight fact, but certainly hard to...
by Matt Zemek | May 1, 2015
The second round of the Western Conference playoffs begins on Sunday. Get excited! Uhhhh no, probably don’t get too excited. The Golden State Warriors versus the Memphis Grizzlies seemed like an interesting Western Conference semifinal matchup on paper earlier in the...
by Matt Zemek | May 1, 2015
The worst shot in basketball is the shot just inside the three-point arc. Everyone knows this. Everyone agrees upon this. A few feet closer to the basket still makes for a relatively long jumper without the additional point. Therefore, a 19-foot jumper at the...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 30, 2015
The most essential difference between coaching in the pros and coaching in college is — and always has been — a very simple one: The colleges are a coach’s game, while the pros are about the players. As great as Gregg Popovich and Phil Jackson might...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 30, 2015
On Wednesday, the day after “The Tweet Heard ‘Round The NBA,” I did not think I’d need to write a straightforward news article about emojis. I also did not think I’d need to write a follow-up commentary about emojis. Then the Houston...
