Henry Abbott
Co-Founder and Editor at TrueHoop
Author of BALLISTIC: The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance new from W.W. Norton & Co. Order now at https://t.co/tmrpzq7D0p
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2 weeks ago |
truehoop.com | Henry Abbott
Sometimes at TrueHoop we delve deep into dreadful things like Jeffrey Epstein, money laundering, sportwashing—and even flopping. Clearly, I don’t buy the weak idea that sports fans must be coddled. And we’re not ignorant of the fact that right now, so much is terrible. (A close friend of my family has been in ICE detention since March 12 and just missed his daughter’s middle school graduation.) It’s a little debate, every day, if and how we should address … all this.
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2 weeks ago |
truehoop.com | Henry Abbott
It's very obvious that the game is played differently now. There's so much more contact. They're not letting you grab and hold and push with your hands, but you can do a lot with your body, and it's just the way the game is being played now. So if you're a skinny dude, you better be hitting the weights. If you're in the draft, be ready. Every team, right now, needs more players like Lu Dort. Ask Tyrese Haliburton. Tyrese is really struggling with Lu Dort. Dort is not gonna win the Finals MVP.
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3 weeks ago |
nextbigideaclub.com | Henry Abbott
Henry Abbott is an award-winning journalist and the founder of TrueHoop. He led ESPN’s 60-person NBA digital and print team, which published several groundbreaking articles and won a National Magazine Award. Imagine a few dogs frolicking on the beach, just romping through the waves and bounding upon the sand. The goal of Ballistic is for you to be able to have that much fun moving your human body.
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3 weeks ago |
truehoop.com | Henry Abbott
Over the weekend we asked TrueHoop subscribers to send in Finals questions, which opened a portal into all kinds of Finals talk. Today: why the whole league should be copying the Pacers and Thunder. HENRY: There are several questions that are basically along the lines of, what are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two coaching staffs? DAVID: The Pacers have a superstar coach on the sidelines in Jenny Boucek. She's basically managing the defense.
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3 weeks ago |
truehoop.com | Henry Abbott
BY DAVID THORPE and HENRY ABBOTTGoing into the playoffs, Jalen Brunson was the king of crunch time and the Big Apple. He’s exceptional player and deserves it. But he lost a little sting against the Pacers. It shows up in the video below, and in the statistics. He averaged 2.9 turnovers per 100 possessions of crunch time in the regular season.
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