I’m not really sure what to make of that game; it was just really weird. The officiating was strange, the teams seemed sped up, thousands of shots were missed. But I’ll let some of our more analytically inclined basketball minds get to that in some other posts, and today we’ll worry about rating the players to a stupid metric.
Bill Walton “broadcasted” the game last night, and I’d really like to do a post dedicated to awesome things he said. He seemed to be hinting at the notion that an Arizona State player somehow extended his life expectancy by an hour and half by moving 12 degrees of latitude south, and he gave a brief history lesson on the Tempe valley Roman trading route, but off the cuff commentary like that seems a little difficult to judge.