My New Blog

Welcome to Baller Stat-us (props to CS on the title). On this blog I'm going to cover everything basketball. I don't even want to cover everything because the list could go on and on, but basically I'm taking a look at anything that I feel like at any given time, because it is my blog.

To give you a brief overview of my basketball history, I have been watching my whole life (my dad is the biggest Celtics homer on earth). So if you see me talking about Dino Radja, don't be surprised. I played when I was young and haven't really stopped playing, although I only played high school basketball one season. I also was the assistant coach of a middle school team in high school, but I'm not sure that really resembled basketball. I currently play on an intramural team in college at UMass Amherst that has some potential to do some damage, but is currently struggling (made the semifinals of the winter holiday tournament, but currently 0-2 in league play in the spring season). I'll keep you updated on that. My game gets compared to Baron Davis, Jason Kidd and Rajon Rondo, but I think I'm probably most similar to Dre Miller.

The Celtics are my favorite team and Paul Pierce is my favorite player, but I'm also currently a fan of the T'Wolves, Knicks, Grizzlies and Thunder. Al Jefferson and Kevin Durant are probably my two favorite non-Celtics. Maybe because I think Big Al is going to be the next McHale and Durant the next Bird. I don't like LeBron, think Dwight Howard is overrated, DWade and Kobe are incredibly equal in my book, and if I were to start a team I'd probably take Chris Paul (although I acknowledge LBJ is better). My favorite teams ever are the D'Antoni/Nash Suns teams. My favorite non-Celtic ever was probably Gilbert Arenas, but I'm not sure how effective he was and how effective he can be when he comes back. I have a great respect for Tim Duncan. I've said before and will maintain that in terms of total careers, he's the only player I would say can enter the conversation with Jordan as greatest of all time.

I don't buy into PER or PPG or USG or any stat like that. They all deceive. But if you look at them while watching the game, they can aide the eye. To me, 82games is probably the most useful site in the world, and if I ever ran a front office of an NBA team, I'd hire a bunch of people to collect stats like they do. The stats they have there are the most useful stats I've seen on the internet.

That's it for now, but I promise in the future there will be actual content and not just me rambling. If you have any requests for me to take a look at something or to write a post on something, leave a comment. I can't promise I'll write about it, but I will always appreciate the support.