The 10-man rotation, starring point guard style
A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It’s also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren’t always listed in order of importance. That’s for you, dear reader, to figure out.
C: Nylon Calculus. Seth Partnow goes deep on point guard style, trying to come up with a workable system for distinguishing between your pass-first, shoot-first, drive-and-kick and every other kind of lead guard you can think of, and what differentiates them from one another. Interesting stuff.
PF: TrueHoop. Kevin Arnovitz — excuse me, the great Kevin Arnovitz — on the Los Angeles Clippers’ slow and steady assault on the Los Angeles Lakers’ domestic market share.
SF: Silver Screen and Roll. Ben Rosales crosses his fingers and hopes Byron Scott decides to give the likes of Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson and Ed Davis an awful lot of minutes this season: “To surpass expectations you need players who will play above their perceived ceiling and that is only really going to come from the team’s youngsters.”
SG: D.C. Sports Bog. As promotional giveaways go, I’m going to rank “Marcin Gortat action figure” below “replica championship ring,” but neck-and-neck with “Z-Bow-Ties.“
PG: Bleacher Report. Howard Beck on Steve Kerr preaching the gospel of ball movement in his first training camp as head coach of the Golden State Warriors.
6th: NetsDaily. Taking stock of the multiple young new faces — no, seriously! — with a chance of contributing in to the famously vet-heavy Brooklyn Nets this season.
7th: Eye on Basketball. Matt Moore on the factors that complicate the Atlanta Hawks’ reported attempts to trade Al Horford, and the factors that complicate the reality of keeping him.
8th: Wall Street Journal. Chris Herring argues that Iman Shumpert, not Carmelo Anthony, is the New York Knicks’ most important player this season. (And here’s where I remind you that Shumpert was my “contributor with something to prove” in our Knicks season preview, because ruthless plugs are the best plugs.)
9th: The Triangle. Jared Dubin wonders whether the Toronto Raptors’ seeming abundance of legitimate wing options might constitute too much depth.
10th: South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Well, Chris “Birdman” Andersen seems to be in midseason form, quote-wise.
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