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Kobe's Disgraceful Performance

12:32 PM ET 06.13

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Before you read this, you should know that this isn't meant to be a pretty, graceful analysis. This is a brute force analysis of a game based upon means available to anybody with a internet connection. I didn't use video tape, or files. I just used good ole' fashioned legwork and memory. Also, this is in NO way an attempt to Kobe-bash. I'm simply a fan of using actual numbers to support an argument, instead of popularly accepted opinion. I'm actually a Kobe fan, but you have to lay blame where it's most appropriate. And in this…

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The Spurs Won, not The Suns Lost

09:37 AM ET 04.30

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I keep hearing how the Suns "lost" the series against the Spurs. Everybody cites games 1,2, and 5 as games that the Suns blew because of mental mistakes and defensive lapses. But let me clue all these people in to an apparently little known fact: The Suns have been doing that all year long (post-Shaq trade). A lapse is defined as " temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state." Thus, one requirement of a lapse is that it be a deviation from the norm. In this case, the norm was NOT clutch offensive execution or…

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Barry Bonds must get in the HOF.

05:13 PM ET 11.16

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After much thinking, I have come to my stance on the issue of Barry Bonds and the HOF. I believe that it would be irresponsible for the HOF to keep him out. I also believe that any reference to the steroids "era" would set a precendent that the HOF could not reverse. The HOF, for the good of the game, must allow him in. And they must do so without any attempts at bringing up the circumstances which he entered under.The HOF has a responsibility. That responsibility is that they, first and foremost, are supposed to hold up the history of the sport. This is a job that is bigger then any…

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