http://cnnsi.com/basketball/nba/gam...

OKC had two guys with 40 points, and another guy with ELEVEN blocks, and still had to go to overtime to win.

Ibaka had a triple double, including those blocks. Had 0 assists, so no threat of a quadruple-double.

However, this game was played in Denver:

But no, it was from the Doug Moe era, with his "just move the ball" offense and laissez-faire attitude toward defense.

How about Pistons starting forward Cliff Levingston? Must have been like a badge of honor to have scored only two points, assuming of course that he didn't miss ten or so. I really doubt he took more than three or four shots.

Pistons won despite horrendous foul shooting (37-60?) while Denver went 48-57. And they made only one three-pointer, which has to be the most surprising stat of all. Wasn't John Long a big-time outside shooter?

Danny Schayes scored 11 points. I know, shocking. But he did it with not a single field goal. Just 11-12 from the line.

And how could the Nuggets have let Isiah Thomas--I mean, Isiah Thomas--tip in a missed free throw to tie the game in regulation? I guess the intentionally-missed free throw was fired at the rim and there was a very long rebound. (But the article says "tipped in," which sounds like something different.)

By the way, I wonder if you know this: until the mid-60s, a tip-in of a missed free throw only counted for one point. I wonder how many points Wilt lost to that rule.

Here is your list (But feel free to add):

1. M. Jordan (See Wizards, Bobcats, drafted Kwame Brown.)

2. M. Millen (Detroit Lions)

And there was Charlie Finley. And Joe Thomas, former GM of the Colts and 49ers. Absolutely despised in San Francisco, he was booted out when the deBartolo's bought the team and brought in Bill Walsh.

By the way, this is <not> Presidents Day. It's Birthington's Washday.

<1. "Politics is like football. If you see daylight, go through the hole."

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

2. "In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: 'Hit the line hard, don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard.'"

-- Theodore Roosevelt

3. "You have to add a little air into the war room now and then."

-- Dwight Eisenhower, on his love of golf

4. "It's a lot tougher to be a football coach than a President. You got four years as president, and they guard you. A coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong."

-- Harry Truman

5. "Congress."

-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, asked his handicap when he was visiting the Masters

6. "You mean there aren't enough people mad at me already?"

<Atlanta Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson is being checked for a possible concussion after blowing a tire on his way to the first workout of spring training.>

Here's a very interesting article about Thomas from the 70s. He helped assemble strong rosters in Minnesota, Miami, and Baltimore before SF. But he burned bridges everywhere he went.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/va...

Most interesting facts in the article for me:

the DeBartolos paid $17 million for the 49ers in 1977, and that was considered a high price.

If Lin could not stop Williams by himself, or double-team him and get help, then the coach should try to put different defender on Williams. (So, in this case, I would fault the coach).

Both were healthy, but the coach decided to play it safe because they were playing three games in four nights on the road. Too many games in too few nights this year. Aside from not wanting to wear out or injure his stars, Popovich must have been protesting the schedule.

Believe it or not, I do study the Polish Opening. I have Lapshun's book, and I've been working on the chapter devoted to the line mentioned by <Parisattack>, 1.b4,e5 2.Bb2, Bxb4 3.Bxe5 . Lapshun considers this the best line for Black and the most difficult for White.

"LIVE RaceBuddy: Watch Danica in N'wide race"

Believe it was lap 25 or so, maybe 30... The two female drivers smacked into each other.

>>I suspect that that the good hitters have a higher [Type A/Type B] ratio than the lesser hitters, and that the Type A balls end up being hits more than the Type B balls.

NO actually you are on the right track. When I first read about the concept my understanding it was more or less constant, and seemed to remain so from batter to batter. But after I posted that above it occurred to me there must be some range to it.

So went back to the baseballthinkfactory and asked someone if they have an idea of what the standard deviation is on it. From what I gather it seems to be about 3% from a mean of around .29% It is a far tighter grouping than say batting average or OBP percentage or whatever.

I think Steve Kemp was at 35% last year, so this maybe an outlier but I am not sure so that is why I asked them that question.

Also it seems that BABIP has been on the increase since the 1970s when it was more like .275. I have no idea that that might mean.

Also on power hitters, there is sort of a natural selection process if a guy was to say strike out 25% of the time, and hit HR say 5% of the time, he would have to have a BABIP of about 36% in order to hit .300.

So it's not really clear if power hitters have natural higher BABIP because they hit the ball harder or rather if they had typical BABIP they simply wouldnt hit enuf to stay in the league. Its an interesting question which only beginning to get some traction on BTF.

ALso as a pt of reference, I think ground balls have a BABIP of 25%; flyballs a mere 14% and line drives I think >50%. I think line drives currently run bout 20% and FB 42% and GB 38%. I think the math works out...