"Defense wins championships."
That's a phrase we hear all the time in sports, typically football and basketball.
If you pay attention, you see that this mantra couldn't be more correct. When most people think about the Golden State Warriors, they think about crossovers and three-pointers. But when you look a little closer, you see that the Warriors have been either the top defensive team in the NBA, or close enough to it.
It really doesn't matter how much you can score if you can't stop the other guy, particularly in crucial moments like the postseason. Just ask Mike D'Antoni.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Dear EA: please bring back NFL Street (and games like it)
Two weekends ago, like many sports fans, I tuned in to watch the Steelers-Bengals playoff game. It was a pretty boring game in the beginning; the score was 6-0 Pittsburgh at halftime, and it wasn't until the fourth quarter that the game morphed into the WWE- type event as we now remember it, complete with the trash talking and questionable hits.
When the game really started to get interesting, though, was when this happened in the third quarter.
Martavis Bryant caught a touchdown between his legs while front-flipping out of bounds.
You wouldn't believe it if there wasn't video evidence, but that's what happened. And like somebody said, it wasn't even the strangest thing that happened that night.
But we aren't going to talk about the penalties or the dirty hits late in the game. We aren't even going to talk about if Bryant's catch was "really a catch" according to the rules, despite the fact that I'm a Cowboys fan and I may or may not still be bitter about Dez Bryant's catch in the playoffs last year.
No, this is about reviving an old video game franchise, and really a genre as a whole: unrealistic sports games.
When the game really started to get interesting, though, was when this happened in the third quarter.
Martavis Bryant caught a touchdown between his legs while front-flipping out of bounds.
You wouldn't believe it if there wasn't video evidence, but that's what happened. And like somebody said, it wasn't even the strangest thing that happened that night.
But we aren't going to talk about the penalties or the dirty hits late in the game. We aren't even going to talk about if Bryant's catch was "really a catch" according to the rules, despite the fact that I'm a Cowboys fan and I may or may not still be bitter about Dez Bryant's catch in the playoffs last year.
No, this is about reviving an old video game franchise, and really a genre as a whole: unrealistic sports games.
Monday, January 18, 2016
Larry Fitzgerald is pushing Arizona to super heights
How many times has a wide receiver carried a team to a Super Bowl once, let alone twice?
Larry Fitzgerald (or "Fitz" if brevity is your thing) is trying to do just that, with a chance to punch his ticket to another Super Bowl berth this Sunday.
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