(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense.) Chapter III: How the Hell Did We Get Here? Pgs: 84-156 “When I tell you that Oscar Robertson’s season-long triple double wasn’t as impressive as it seemed, you’d have to take my word unless you saw [...]
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Reading The Book of Basketball, Part V (How the Hell Did We Get Here) Leave a comment
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(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense.) The Secret P. 30-56 I’m going to tweak the format of my analysis from here on out, or at least for the next couple of chapters. Instead of working from big themes, I’m just going to [...]
Reading the Book of Basketball: Part II (The Four-Dollar Ticket) 1 comment
(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense) Prologue: The Four-Dollar Ticket Pages 1-29 The Role of Chance What if? It’s the leading theme of the prologue. What if Papa Simmons had bought the motorcycle instead of the Celtics tickets What if Russell [...]
(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense.) Chapter II: Russell, then Wilt pgs. 57-83 Is Russell-Wilt in fact the “greatest debate in NBA history”? Simmons seems to think so; I don’t really care. It’s just not that important to me. I respect and [...]