Unfortunately, I’ve only been able to watch highlights. The highlights from the Arizona-UConn (women’s) game stood out to me. First, Aari MacDonald looked like Steph Curry, with some quick release and long-range shots. Second, the highlights don’t show Arizona’s defense, but I’m guessing it must have been good–or UConn was missing a lot of open shots or taking a lot of bad ones. I hope I can watch some of the remaining games.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither one of them works. — Charlie Lau

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up. — Bob Uecker

This is a thread to discuss basketball officiating. I recently watched a training video, and I was surprised by some of the correct calls. I wanted to get some feedback from Don and anyone else. (I’ll post the clip in the first post.)

NFC: Buccaneers-Packers

AFC: Bills-Chiefs

General discussion prior to the 2021-2022 NFL season.

Sat

Rams-Packers

Ravens-Bills

Sun

Browns-Chiefs

Buccaneers-Saints

Saturday

Colts-Bills

Rams-Seahawks

WFT-Buccaneers

Sunday

Ravens-Titans

Bears-Saints

Browns-Steelers

Last week of the regular season.

For a long time, I’ve believed that a team’s offense can have a significant impact on the performance of a team’s defense. Specifically, better ball control of a team’s offense–which involves running a lot of time and plays, as well as protecting the football–will lead to better performance by the team’s defense–or at least least better ball control would create better conditions to play good defense, while bad ball control would do the opposite.

To examine these claims, I’ve turned to stats like time of possession (TOP), totals and averages, and the number of snaps by a team’s offense and defense. There might be other metrics, but those are the ones I recently looked at. This will be a thread to discuss and analyze this topic.

Fri

Vikings-Saints