TommyD's World....

My rumblings about current sports events.

      Jason I think you let your hatred for Scottie Pippen and Dan influence you on this one.  These statistics and achievements do not factor in when the 50 greatest player list was made or factor in the defensive liability of Reggie Miller or the fact that Reggie could not create his own shot.  

 

Scottie Pippen-Avg and Achievements

16.1 ppg

6.4 rbg

5.2 apg

2 spg

.8 bpg

 

All-NBA First team three times

All-NBA Second team two times

All-NBA Third team two times

All-defense first team eight times

All-defense second team two times

Seven-time NBA all-star

Six NBA Championships

Two Gold Medals

 

Reggie Miller-Avg and Achievements

18.2 ppg

3  rpg

3 apg

1.1 spg

.2 bpg

 

All-NBA Third team three times

Five-time NBA all-star

Most Three pointers made

 

     In conclusion, you can see that Reggie did slightly average more points per game but if you are looking at who is the overall best player it is Scottie Pippen.  Pippen was the far superior defensive player and could create his own shot.  I will grant you if the list was the 50 greatest shooters of all time Reggie would be on the list but this list was for greatest players.  Reggie was a one-dimensional player where as Scottie was an all around player. 

     Well after thinking this was going to be another long season watching the Tigers play basketball, I was honestly surprised with the year they had.  After losing what I thought was their best player, Keon Lawrence, and being picked to finished seventh in a weak conference, I thought this was just going to be a rebuilding year because of all the young players the Tigers have.  Well here at the end looking back, this might go down as one of the best season MU has ever had in the history of the program....Big 12 Tourney Champs, Elite Eight, 3 seed in the big dance, 30 plus wins, top 10 RPI, a high ranking and a win against KU.  All this from a team I thought was no good!
     Surprisingly what I will remember most is the UCONN game because I think it showed people that MU deserved everything they did this year because they were a good team.  It seemed like after everything good that happened to this club this year there was an excuse...beat KU because KU played bad, ranked high and did not deserve it, won the Big 12 tourney because they played lower seeds and beat Memphis because they were over-rated.  Well after losing a close game to UCONN, I think people finally gave credit to MU and their season.  People in the media and around town finally started saying this was a good team...So in defeat, MU shined the brightest all year!...Poetic I know.     

     I was not expecting the Chiefs to start Tyler Thigpen this year so I will like to change my prediction of 6-10 to 0-16!

STAT OF THE WEEK
Tyler Thigpen was a career 53% passer and had a career QB rating of 82.9 at Coastal Carolina, which is a school known for playing high quality pass defenses...

     People are looking down on this team so I decided to try to look on the bright side and see if I can find stats and stuff to help prove the case that the Chiefs are a better team than what the national media gives them credit for.  So here are some stats that help show we were a better team than last year's record and that we are a better team this year.....

Last year we had a record of 4-12 but if you take a deeper look at it we started 4-3 with LJ and then he got hurt in the next game and we went 0-9.  This year we will hopefully have a healthy and rejuvenated LJ for the whole year.

Also last year we had some solid wins over the Chargers and Viking which were good teams

3 of our losses were by 3 point which includes a 3 point loss at Indy

We only lost to Detroit by 5 so four of our 12 losses were by 5 or less points and all four of those games were without LJ

So basically what I am trying to say is that with LJ we went 4-3 with wins over the Chargers and the Vikings and when he got hurt we lost 9 games in a row and 4 of those losses were by 5 points or less....maybe if we would have had our big playmaker on the team, so teams would have to focus on him and this would then help the pressure on Brodie, we could have had a decent record.  If we would have won all those very close games are record would have been 8-8 which is one game back from the record we had in 2006 when we made the playoffs!

So what does this means for this year?  With all that from last yeat plus I think our offensive scheme will be hands down better than last year, LJ will be healthy, we will have two corners who can play instead of only having one, our schedule is pretty freaking easy, and we have another year of experince under are belt so we could shock the world!

Maybe not, but I tried and it did give me a little hope for the coming year!


 

     I bet I got you freaks pumped up for the coming season after reading the previous article!  So here I am going to predict the Chiefs year....The first is what I feel is going to happen and the second one is the best the Chiefs can do!

at NE-L
Oak-W
at Atl-W
Den-L
at Car-L
Ten-W
at NYJ-L
Tampa-L
at SD-L
NO-L
Buff-W
at Oak-L
at Den-L
SD-L
Miami-W
at Cincy-W
6-10

at NE-L
Oak-W
at Atl-W
Den-W
at Car-L
Ten-W
at NYJ-L
Tampa-W
at SD-L
NO-L
Buff-W
at Oak-W
at Den-L
SD-L
Miami-W
at Cincy-W
9-8

So I think the Chiefs will probably finish around 6 wins but if everything goes right I think we could get up to 9!

Mike Aviles- AB-53 R-12 H-17 HR-3 RBI-6 OBP-.345 SLG-.642 OPS-.987 AVG-.321 XBH-10 FLD%-.962
Tony Pena Jr.- AB-162 R-13 H-25 HR-0 RBI-7 OBP-.174 SLG-.191 OPS-.365 AVG-.154 XBH-5   FLD%-.968
In conclusion, TPJ should never play again! 

    I read this one in the star today in Joe Posnanski column.  In Wednesday game, the Royals were up 5 runs in the top of ninth with 2 outs and a runner on first and ended up losing.  From 1977 to 2006 this situation were the home team was up 5 run in the top of the ninth with 2 outs and a runner on first has happened 826 times and the home team is a perfect 826-0 and because of the Royals the home team record in that situation is now 826-1.  Royals, I salute you for bucking the trend and starting a new true blue tradition!   

 Since it seems like the Royals always have the bases loaded and never score any runs I decided to look it up.
    As of 5/25/08 Royals batters have been up 25 times with the bases loaded and have gotten a whopping 3 hits!!  That is a BA of .120!  They have also gotten 1 walk and have 13 RBI's.  Our best hitter is David DeJesus who is batting .500 with 4 RBI's and our worst hitter is Mark TBag who is 0 for 4.
    I then looked up to see what the 1st place Chicago White Sox statistics were.  They are 16 for 51, which is a BA of .314, and they have 51 RBI's.
    In conclusion, the Royals suck!!


In 130 at bats Tony Pena Jr. has walked 4 times and 2 of those were intentional