0 comments by Jovan Alford on 5/3/2016
In basketball, college or pro, we’ve all hear the saying good guard play wins games in the postseason. Sunday afternoon, in a win-or-go-home situation, that saying held true as the Miami Heat took the sting out of the Charlotte Hornets, 106-73. Miami point guard Goran Dragic left his mark on the game by playing with […]
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0 comments by Bart D
If the NBA was a senator, “game fixing” would be the equivalent of saying, “Remember that time he voted for THAT bill everyone hates.” It’s a charge the league cannot completely outrun, no matter what it tries. Tim Donaghy outing the league on shifty practices with officials merely confirmed what most people assumed went on […]
Frank Vogel — patient architect of the Pacers’ rise whose players couldn’t handle pressure last season, or young, in-over-his-head coach who should have been able to guide his roster through the past season with a steadier hand? That’s not an easy question to answer. How the Pacers perform in the coming season could very well prove to be decisive for Vogel’s coaching career, for better or worse. The roster Larry Bird gives him should factor into subsequent assessments of his coaching acumen, 12 months from now.
0 comments by Bart D
If the Indiana Pacers were a relationship conversation, it’d be the ole lukewarm, “I don’t really like you that much anymore, but I haven’t yet figured out quite how to tell you.” I have no knowledge of Larry Bird and Frank Vogel’s texting habits, but on the outside, it feels like Frank is in the zone […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 5/2/2016
Check out the timing on this play between Dennis Schroder and Al Horford in the 4th quarter of game one against the Cleveland Cavaliers…. Schroder to Horford alley oop! https://t.co/7Rhgv7pKjF — Crossover Chronicles (@crossoverNBA)
0 comments by Kevin Causey
After a steal, LeBron gets a big-time dunk on the fast break in the third quarter of game one against the Atlanta Hawks…. We have lift off!
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Check out this pass from LeBron! LeBron with the PERFECT pass to Jefferson!
0 comments by John Cannon
The Golden State Warriors’ 118-106 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals could easily be placed in the “Really Not That Close” catagory. After all, the Dubs took a 20-point lead into the second quarter and never led by fewer than nine points the rest of the way. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The first round of the 2016 NBA Playoffs suffered from an abundance of games in which two teams couldn’t play well at the same time, but if you’re going to knock the level of play from the past fortnight, you have to factor injuries into the equation. Yes, few series displayed the best the NBA […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The play’s the thing, as Shakespeare taught us, and without players, we don’t have much of a drama — not in the NBA playoffs or in any other competition under the sun. The first round of the postseason presented, on many levels, the kind of portraits we expected to see. Paul George and — more […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The first round of the 2016 NBA Playoffs was a most peculiar fortnight filled with a number of upside-down occurrences. The central counterintuitive reality of the first round is that the losing coaches in many of the eight series were better than the winning coaches… certainly in a 4-1 series, and possibly even in a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The city of Toronto is psychologically accustomed to losing in the playoffs. The hockey mecca doesn’t have any Canadian team to root for in the quest for the Stanley Cup, so the Raptors are the only show in town as the North American spring unfolds. Sunday night in the Air Canada Centre, as one predictably […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 5/1/2016
Check out this move by DeMar DeRozan as he leaves his defender in the dust and puts the ball in the basket….. Spin Cycle north of the border!
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Check out this dunk from Paul George after a steal…. Showtime in the 6!
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Heat was on… and the Hornets were turned off. The Miami Heat profoundly struggled with the Charlotte Hornets over the past four games of their Eastern Conference first-round series, but when Dwyane Wade saved them in Game 6 on Friday night, a week of frustration gave way to a different mood and attitude. This […]
0 comments by John Cannon
https://soundcloud.com/crossover-chronicles/tim-roye-4-30-16 Tim Roye is in his 21st season as the Golden State Warriors’ radio play-by-play voice. For nearly two full decades, he witnessed some of the worst basketball imaginable. In his first 16 years, the Warriors were over .500 just twice, and he had to wait 11 years for the first such instance. In one […]
