Michael Scott, diehard Lakers fan, enters the office with 29 notecards after having to endure a full work’s day worth of Jim, Pam, Creed, Kevin, Andy, Dwight and the rest of The Office making fun of his favorite team’s misfortune especially in light of the unfortunate D’Angelo Russell/Nick Young situation. He is in a bad mood.
As the season wraps up in a few short days, the attention for evaluating many of the non-contending teams shift to what the teams will do in their offseason to come back stronger (or weaker, for #TeamTank). One of the primary ways front offices make their evaluations is coaching staffs and like every year, certain fanbases clamor for struggling teams to fire their head coaches. Before looking to this offseason, I thought it would be interesting to review coaching changes that have recently been made and evaluate their effectiveness. Obviously, many of these changes will accurately be assessed in the next coming years, so consider this a “short term” report card of some of the moves.
While the March 21st Apple event didn’t generate, nor warrant, the hype of a WWDC (new software) or Fall event (new hardware) does – it still was a productive Monday morning for the company. Here is my “Likes and Dislikes” from the event, broken down by section. For Fall’s event that saw the launch of the iPhone 6s, iPad Pro and more, please click here.
Having had so much fun having done one of these before, and having had so much fun watching the Spurs Warriors game from Saturday, why not do it again?
As they say, sequels are always WAY better than the originals. Right?
The team that has been most affected by the Warriors historic season is the Cleveland Cavaliers. Upon the arrival of LeBron James and the subsequent roster moves and despite LeBron himself cautioning patience towards a title, the expectation in Cleveland became “championship or bust” immediately. Last year started off choppy, but ultimately LeBron was able to will a team that had lost Kevin Love early and Kyrie Irving later to within 2 games of winning a championship.
False Hypothesis 