After years and years of reading what others have to say about basketball, being impressed by some, learning from many and coming across the occassional "Even I can write better than this guy" writers, I have decided to give it a go. I'll try and write my basketball thoughts as they become available. I assume the biggest challenge for me will be regularity.
A bit about my basketball self: I consider myself an average fan, love the game, but don't play it very well. I have as much game as LeBron's neighbor, so I have no illusions of grandeur in terms of actual skill. :) However, I am a die hard fan of the gameand I am under the impression (or false perception) that I understand the game very well.
I've been an NBA fan since the mid 80's. I was a pre-teen in awe of the great Magic Johnson and the 1980's Showtime Lakers but even though the kid in me liked the Lakers, I also liked Bird and the Celtics. In 1988, I saw a few games of the Lakers-Jazz Western Conference semi-finals series and started to like the Jazz. In 1989, I watched the All-star game and on that day, became a Karl Malone fan for life. And even though it has been a long while since that time, and I have come to understand the game itself and the players of that era a lot more as I grew older, my appreciation for the Stockton-to-Malone style of basketball has not ceased.
I'll have lots of time to ramble about that later, but for now, I'll just say that I'm a big fan of team basketball, a big fan of motion offenses vs stand around isolation/matchup post-up offenses and a huge fan of playing the game hard, being classy and just doing things the "Old school" style.
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