For the latest Inside Enemy Territory I was able to get the scoop on the Pistons from Natalie at Need 4 Sheed. Enjoy!
1. Juan Dixon didn’t get much burn this season for Toronto. How’s he looking for Detroit? Will he be part of Flip Saunder’s rotation in the playoffs?
He’s looking good in the limited time he’s been on court. In fact, he lit it up in his first game with extended minutes after only running through one practice with Detroit, going 6-for-7 for 14 points in Chauncey Billups’ absence.
I have …

Just because a team has no hope at post-season, that does not mean that they are not worth watching, especially for fantasy players. You can often find a diamond in the rough, as some players finally get an opportunity to see some court time with teams looking toward the future. Not only can these previously ignored players pay dividends for the last month of the season, but it could preview a possible break-out next season.
Let us go around the league and find some of those players that are getting their …

ESPN’s Bob Ley, in Sunday’s excellent Outside the Lines segment on women’s college basketball, illuminated the “feud” between University of Tennessee Women’s basketball head coach, Pat Summit, and the University of Connecticut’s head coach, Geno Auriemma. The rivalry that was reached nasty status this summer when UConn extended a contract to continue the annual regular season meeting between the two teams and Summit and Tennessee refused.It is no secret that the coaches dislike each other. It is no secret that, as the Boston Globe’s Jackie McMillan said today on the …

With Toronto’s game against Denver about to tipoff in a couple hours I’m scrambling to get this up in time so I won’t provide a proper intro. Sorry! A huge thanks goes out to Nick from The Nugg Doctor for stepping in and providing some stellar insight into the Denver Nuggets.
1. Denver is facing the prospect of winning 50 games and missing the playoffs. How frustrating is this idea to Nuggets fans? Are you a fan of the idea of the top 16 teams making the playoffs regardless of conference?
It’s …

In this week’s Buzzer Beaters we have links to college basketball players talking smack on Facebook, the scoop on Steve Nash directing his latest commercial for Nike and a picture of Bryan Colangelo during a scouting trip in Europe.
* Hardwood Paroyxsm has a great screen grab of two college basketball players talking smack on Facebook.
* A big thanks goes out to Ben Couch from NBA.com for linking to a lot of articles from Hoops Addict this week.
* A large number of Raptors fans and a couple members of the local …

Can we stop with the “ACC is the toughest conference in the nation” nonsense? Can we throw the conference and team “Ratings Percentage Index” nonsense out the window, please?
Belmont, “RPI” 79, took #2-seed in the West Region, Duke and its gaudy RPI of 6 to the brink of extinction. This was a first round matchup that wasn’t even discussed by the nation’s punditry. Duke-Belmont? ACC vs. Atlantic Sun? No contest.
Number 15-seed Belmont was served up as a lamb du sacrifice for #2 Duke but by midway through the second half …

LeBron James recently passed the 10,000 point mark, becoming the youngest player in NBA history to reach this milestone. Couple that with the fact he became the ninth fastest player to get to those 10,000 career points and we can start looking ahead to the end of James’ career when he retires with an NBA-record 40,000+ points.
There’s no doubt about it in my mind that James is our generation’s Wilt Chamberlain. He is the most gifted athlete I’ve ever seen in the NBA and that’s probably true for people who …

The Raptors return from a difficult west coast swing with the hope that their team can once again find their illusive consistency. Kinnon Yee takes a look at the week that was.
Absence of Bosh
How much does the absence of Chris Bosh matter? Looking at the stats, we’ve seen the Raptors allow teams to shoot an average in excess of 50% per game. The question is just how much does Bosh add to the overall team defense? After all, it’s not just one person from opposing teams going …

I think it’s about time somebody took a long hard look at the NBA’s marketing strategy for the 2007-08 season. And I don’t mean from a blogger’s point of view, because we’ve all beaten the “Where amazing happens” tagline to death by now. Look around the internet and you’ll find that every basketball blog and sports blog in general has, at some time, made a comment or post using the NBA’s current marketing slogan as a foundation.
I get it. We’ve spoken. For the most part, we don’t like the tagline.
“The …

Alphabet City is currently being spelled in the world of college basketball. The NCAA and NIT will hoop it up on USA soil to determine collegiate basketball’s champion. Universities such as KSU, UNC, UCLA, MSU, and countless other lettermen will be covered by CBS and analyzed by ESPN in the Madness matrix hex that assures high drama. I have heard the hordes hemming me up the latest NBA Mock Draft so this initial foray will be 12 teams deep with the full 30-team breakdown forthcoming shortly.