0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/17/2015
Days after the induction of 11 new members into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, we’re wondering here at Crossover Chronicles: “Which other players should be part of the club and get their ticket to Springfield?” One player who has not yet received his passport to basketball immortality is Paul Westphal, who starred for the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/16/2015
This past weekend, while a lot of other things were happening in the sports world — especially the start of the new NFL season and the end of the U.S. Open — the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame welcomed its newest class in Springfield, Massachusetts. The 11 new members, divided into two separately […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/31/2015
The NBA season is still two months away, but after the draft, free agency, and the slowest month on the NBA calendar, we’re not too far from the resumption of activity in preparation for another 82-game odyssey. One month from now, preseason basketball will be discussed. You’ll obviously get a much deeper examination of these […]
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Documentation of a new NBA schedule isn’t complete without documenting road trips, their durations, and their opponents. I am personally more interested in the numbers of back-to-backs and 4-in-5s. I am also more concerned about the ways in which weekend back-to-backs are handled. Those three issues stand out because there is either an emphasis on […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/30/2015
On Aug. 29, we gave you the five foremost losers in the 2015-2016 NBA schedule. We now give you the five teams which benefited the most from the complexion of the schedule — not so much in terms of the arrangement of teams (that’s in many ways a separate point of focus), but the logistical […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/29/2015
The 2015-2016 NBA schedule produced some very clear winners, which we’ll get to soon enough, but today, let’s start with the equally clear losers. For background which informs this piece — and enables you to make your own judgments — consult this compilation of 30 quick facts about the NBA schedule. As you can see, the […]
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Individual games are one thing, full series quite another. Matthew Dellavedova discovered this truth in the 2015 NBA Finals. He had a moment in Game 2. He enjoyed a magnificent Game 3. The full series, however, caught up with him and the rest of a shorthanded Cleveland Cavalier crew. Andre Iguodala, on the other hand, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/28/2015
The Book of Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible, is the most famous creation story known to humankind, since human beings began to write letters on paper. Other cultures and civilizations have their own revered texts and shared origin stories. A lucky few are present at the creation of something vast, remarkable, formidable, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/26/2015
Almost. The word often speaks to excellence, but it ultimately weighs down the heart and the soul of any competitor. Spill your guts in a four-hour tennis match, gain match point, and almost win. Play the heavy favorite into overtime in an NFL playoff game… and almost pull off the upset. Take Michael Jordan to […]
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We’ve analyzed various components of the 2015-2016 NBA schedule here at Crossover Chronicles over the past few weeks. Weekend back-to-backs. Overall back-to-backs. 4-in-5s. Day games. The three-game lottery. Scheduling successes and scheduling errors. We’ve covered a lot of ground. From our research, without any added editorializing or explanations, here are 30 facts to take away […]
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Haven’t the Rockets tormented the Clippers enough? Well, this wasn’t a collection of basketball Rockets which angered Angelinos in the midnight hour last night. Oh, there were rockets in the greater Los Angeles area last night, but as was the case in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, James Harden was sitting there and […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/24/2015
We have arrived at the final installment of our extended series on weekend back-to-backs in the NBA. This issue came to our attention when we noticed the disparities in day games (almost exclusively on weekends, of course) on the new schedule. We defined the parameters of a weekend back-to-back, establishing what represented a properly-handled or […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/23/2015
The past week, we’ve broken down the number of weekend back-to-backs (defined as Saturday-Sunday or Sunday-Monday) for all 30 NBA teams, separating our research by division. We’re almost at the end of this project, but we have two more installments left. We shift into an overview of this topic, split into two parts. In part […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/22/2015
I thought for multiple days how I was going to write this article, and when sitting down to compile a few video clips and links to supplement my writing, the amount of material I came across was so substantial that I was ambushed. I was ambushed by the realization that I didn’t have to write […]
