Roman Sprikut

@sportsru basketball. Hoops history, cap geek

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@KeithSmithNBA Hey, Keith, just wanted to share this Spotrac transactions' nugget with you. We need Rose Rule language in all the reckless chair swinging fines

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@Celtics_PRam @HoopsAnalyst Embry worked for the Bucks' front office when they traded for Lanier and later signed Cowens out of retirement, and Bob was much more useful in Milwaukee than Dave, so I think Wayne is a bit biased here

Same reason he always put Marques Johnson in his all-time SF lists

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@lovkov_ @HoopGrids Ну это прямо близко к максимуму! Я пытался самый крупный счёт набрать, где-то 250 было

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

🔥BANG🔥 🏀 #HoopGrids

Rarity Score: 6.51

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@hoopgrids / https://t.co/DvQymAOUzf

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[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

В первой версии своего ответа начал с Уэстфала, естественно, но потом сообразил, что для rarity score нужны неочевидные ответы. При этом Сайлас, Боуэн и Прайс в All-Defensive, а также Макаду пришли в голову реально самыми первыми 😂 кажется, это не совсем здоровая ситуация

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@curtismharris Wow, no mention of Steve Mix's 4 minutes in Denver? Curtis were you hacked?

[Robert Bradley @librarybob]

Also -

24 Second to Shoot
by Leonard Koppett (1970)

Tall Tales
by Terry Pluto (1992)

Spencer Haywood: The Rise, the Fall, the Recovery
by Haywood & Ostler (1992)

Basketball: A Love Story
by MacMullan, Bartholomew & Klores (2018)

The Cap
by Joshua Mendelsohn (2020)

[Robert Bradley @librarybob]

Favorite pro basketball books -

Foul!
by David Wolf (1972)

The Breaks of the Game
by David Halberstam (1981)

Cages to Jump Shots
by Robert W. Peterson (1990)

Loose Balls
by Terry Pluto (1990)

Boxed out of the NBA
by Syl Sobel & Jay Rosenstein (2021)

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

не ну конечно спасибо, что хоть не во время онлайна переходов нба

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@smilodonjosh They were 35-37 but the point differential was 2nd-best, higher than 49-win Hawks

That was the 5th best pt/diff in the shot clock era to that point. And after that, until 1964, only the championship Celtics have been surpassing that +4 pt/diff

Nats just couldn't close out games

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@JADubin5 Kinda sad that the idea of Jews in basketball is relegated to a joke these days, don't you think?

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@JADubin5 There are, like, dozens of better Jewish players in the history of basketball than Farmar and Avdija, lol. From Schayes and Holman and Holzman and LaRusso and all the SPHAs to Brody, Jamchi, Berkovich

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@SportInfo247 If one player gets 10m20s of playing time, another gets 10m20s and the third gets 27m20s, all adds up to full 48, who gets the extra minute in the boxscore?

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@WiltStats Feerick's first name was Bob 😭

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@MarkDeeksNBA @chernykh There is. What's funny, it involves neither me nor @chernykh

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@MarkDeeksNBA But people like to spend much time on such things. It helps them avoid thinking about important stuff

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@KyraLifer Oh, I meant there that guys like Luisetti and Schommer and Steinmetz are often included in various historical tops and rankings, but because they had never played professional basketball, I've never studied their legacies

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@KyraLifer Ed Wachter is also one who comes to mind when thinking about pre-ABL era

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@KyraLifer Tough question - we're talking 50 years of basketball! The list is nice. I'd probably go with Pop Gates or maybe someone from the Original Celtics instead of Leroy, but he's also a 100% worthy candidate

Also college legends who'd never gone pro, but I'm not familiar with that

[Roman Sprikut @ramaysramays]

@MarkDeeksNBA Started referring to my IKEA shoe rack as "Bobby" because its model was named "Portis"

I memorize numerical values by thinking of them as players' jersey numbers. Like, 45 is "Lafrentz", 3688 is "SmartBatum"

(also met my wife through basketball writing, but that one is obvious)