New Site Addition and Other Notes
2010-02-24
(Side note: who else can only think of D2: The Mighty Ducks whenever they’re watching Olympic hockey? Also, it is outstanding how little sense everything about that movie makes in hindsight. Really impressive disregard for any kind of logic when they made that sequel.)
-Anyways. Good news, everyone: as you may know, my NBC job makes me far too busy during the afternoons to do Links To The Present on a daily basis. (Wednesday is actually my day off during the week, which is why I have time to write this.) I asked for applications for people who could help me out, and the response was overwhelming. Over 20 of you asked to do Links To The Present, and I truly thank each and every one of you. I’m sure all of you could have done a very good job.
-Ultimately, I went with Tom Pestak, who folks around here may know as the commenter “Tsunami.” Tom’s comments have always been excellent, his enthusiasm was great, and he showed knowledge of a wide variety of sources. He’ll be the new Links Editor here at Cavs: The Blog, so look forward to him getting the links up every weekday afternoon. Here are a few extra things from this afternoon:
-Ric Bucher of ESPN (Insider) is reporting that a Wizards buyout offer to Z is “waiting for his signature.” Hopefully he goes through with it and gets back to Cleveland as soon as possible.
–The Painted Area points out that LeBron is on pace to shatter the record for assists by a forward.
-RealCavsFans.com poster “MG1” has some stats detailing how the Cavs play in relation to how many threes LeBron takes; basically, the Cavs are much more likely to win when LeBron shoots fewer threes. I think there’s some causation/correlation noise there, but it’s still very interesting stuff.
-Pierce update: Doc Rivers says that Pierce is “likely to miss” Thursday’s game against the Cavs.
As an engineer (scientist?) I always doubted the feasibility of the “knuckle puck”
Dude, I’ve been saying that about Mighty Ducks for years! So the USA apparently would take a random Minnesota pee-wee team that won their local tournament (and I might add were absolutely horrible until a late season surge), throw in a few ringers, and make that the national team!?!?! And why was Iceland the next best team? Did the directors not want to piss off Canada by making them villains? If you want to take it a step further, this national team that won the Gold medal were then only a passable JV hockey team (D3) that got destroyed by… Read more »
Good job tsunami lookin forward to reading your posts.
Congrats, Tsunami.
And regarding those LeBron/threes numbers, Jacob did something very similar for us this past weekend. I agree that it would be nice to see these relative to minutes played to strip out some of the noise.
And just to fill everyone in, the buyout is complete. Z officially hits the FA markt this weekend.
I get your causation/correlation feel too Krolik. It would seem to me that LeBron starts jacking threes only when the Cavs are actually losing. Rarely does he continue to to jack them early in the game unless they are going in. Only late, when the cavs are already losing…..so yea. Not sure if there is any causation to that stat at all.
thanks, everyone. I appreciate the support.
@Brad, lol at the analogy. I really enjoyed the community at Fox back in the day. I’m (obviously) very excited to be working for Cavstheblog.
@Kevin, thanks!
I’m on twitter @tompestak
I used to live-blog at FoxSports so I expect to be doing a little of that during Cavs games, much like John does from his twitter @JohnKrolik
Great work Tsunami on impressing Krolik. I look forward to your updates.
good on you Tom Tsunami — going from that Fox sports site to cavstheblog is like going from, oh, I don’t know — the Wiz to the Cavs?
Keep the links coming — this is truly a season for basketball obsessives . And for once, we’re lucky to be from Cleveland – still trying to get used to that fact.