Team USA: Scouting tales from Poland and Puerto Rico
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...summer to Poland (to scout EuroBasket 2009) and to San Juan, Puerto Rico (to scout the 2009 Tournament of the Americas.) Here are his two tales: "I'd say the strangest Poland experience, from going...
Blog | December 15, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPhil Sheridan of The Philadelphia Inquirer: "The 76ers staged a very moving tribute to Allen Iverson last night. It was a perfect way to induct a reti...
Blog | December 08, 2009Monday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott Jeremy from Roundball Mining Company on the give and take of Carmelo Anthony: "Carmelo played two stellar offensive games against ...
Blog | November 23, 2009Sonny Vaccaro: Brandon Jennings broke the mold, part two
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...J. [Mayo], Kevin [Garnett], Greg [Oden], Kobe [Bryant] ... they went from the camp to the Big-Time Tournament and all that. The last time, his junior year his team beat Derrick Rose and Eric Gordon...
Blog | November 20, 2009Sneaking a suspended player on the court in a teammate's uniform
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...a decent player best-known for missing the free throws that could have won the Conference USA tournament and secured an NCAA tournament bid for Memphis. UPDATE: Frequent TrueHoop contributor Coleman Collins plays in Germany...
Blog | November 19, 2009Stephen Jackson as a Bobcat: Crazier things have worked
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...end ugly! But I'm thinking that when they get to the final table of this poker tournament, Brown will have some extra poker chips. The first is that Jackson has to be a little...
Blog | November 16, 2009To Play and Play in L.A.
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Kings and hosts events such as the Grammy Awards and the Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament during the NBA season. So it turned into a break for the three teams that got to...
Blog | November 10, 2009Making history today: Latavious Williams
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopI was once part of an event with Dan Shanoff. It was great when they introduced us. There was Will Leitch from Deadspin. Henry Abbott from TrueHoop. A...
Blog | November 05, 2009Colangelo Still Wants Pro Coaches on Team USA
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...to woo them while serving as an assistant on the USA Basketball staff at the World Championships, Tournament of the Americas and Olympics. In the absence of proof there's only imagination, and the thought...
Blog | October 29, 2009Mark Warkentien's play-in tournament
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott The spiral bound document says "Make Every Game Count: The NBA Play-In Tournament." It's a proposal to take the eighth and last playoff spot in each conference and, instead...
Blog | October 29, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...basketball this offseason, helping his national team capture the European Championship. He tackled something much bigger than tournament games in preparation for his second NBA season. 'Collseroz By Tibidabo,' Gasol said, naming the...
Blog | October 01, 2009Should the NBA Hire FIBA Referees?
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...European referees primarily. And the explanation is easy: Referees working in Euroleague and in the major FIBA tournaments are the ones officiating the best level of basketball after the NBA. And for taking a job...
Blog | September 24, 2009First Cup: Tuesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...a four-team deal on July 9, was less than stellar at the recently competed EuroBasket 2009 tournament in Poland -- at least statistically speaking -- which has prompted speculation, and much hand-wringing amongst Raptors fans...
Blog | September 22, 2009Pau Gasol: World-beater
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...blk, 5 TO)." In 2009, Gasol was the dominant player at the Eurobasket, easily winning the tournament MVP for his terrific all-around play over the last two weeks. Pau's stat line...
Blog | September 21, 2009Friday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopYesterday I blogged a little about Kobe Bryant. To the many Bryant fans who reached out convinced that I had been excessively negative: Ask fans of an...
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