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    Global Basketball Odds and Ends

    I remember Coach K calling Dave Blatt (Framingham/Princeton/Israel/Euro League coach/Cavs coach; no Russian heritage) a commie when he coached the Russian Olympic team in 2012. Not sure he was joking.
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    Joe Mazzulla officially named head coach

    I thought that the game was still there to be taken - Miami cooled off, Celts had the last possession of Q3, the first possession of Q4 and the next 3 possessions before scoring. When Miami started getting some hoops again, the game should have been dead even; or the Celts should have been ahead.
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    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    ...and he keeps ending up batting in the middle of the order. I guess someone has to given the terrible options at this point.
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    One Draft Hot-Take

    Well, you were half right!
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    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    But wasn't that fourth quarter stretch triggered by turnovers (which overall wasn't that much of a problem last night) and #4 hitting a ton of threes (the passive defense on which seemed to carry over to last night)? And I don't dwell on the ending of Game 1; some of us recall that the Memorial...
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    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

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    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    What makes their ice surface so bad if indeed that's a problem?
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    The Pantheon of Boston announcers: Who you got?

    Down homey phrases for sure, but he was pretty frank with his assessments of what was going on with the team, especially in the years Haywood Sullivan was dismantling it. The White Sox version of The Hawk would not have been well received in Boston.
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    The Pantheon of Boston announcers: Who you got?

    The Ken Harrelson who did color for the Red Sox was pretty good and even better if you compare him to the Ken Harrelson who had, in name only, the same job for the White Sox.
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    Joe Mazzulla officially named head coach

    That or his grandfather told him bedtime stories about the Cocoanut Grove fire.
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    2024 Lineup (What we actually have - no trade speculation.)

    1. Regardless of who the error was charged to, that's a very shitty throw. A MLB outfielder grabbing a ball at that depth in the outfield is supposed to be able to hit a cutoff man standing more than 60 feet away from home plate. It's short and not straight. Yes, Casas probably should be...
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    If you were a ballplayer...

    My glove won 6 or 7 games my senior year in high school. We had a kid pitcher who had a terrible glove (his family didn't have much money and what they did have went towards a real nice catcher's mitt, where he was supposed to play when not pitching), so he used mine. I was the statistician...
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    The Pantheon of Boston announcers: Who you got?

    "Back here at Convention Hall in the City of Brotherly Hate".
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    The Pantheon of Boston announcers: Who you got?

    Too many people to evaluate, been listening/watching games since 1960. Some general comments, however. 1. Gowdy's work was good (or very good) enough to put him in a network role for many years, but when I think of him, I think of a pretty long and bad stretch of Red Sox baseball. Many...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Opens up playing time again for Duncan Robinson? Oh, yes, I forgot. He's dead. Jaylen Brown killed him a few weeks ago.
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