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Originally Posted by BillLaimbeer  There may be a point to that article, but I have no idea what it is. The author just rambled from one topic and team to the next. I guess it's okay to ramble without making a point if you simply call it a "blog". |
So what don't you understand? The framework of an essay is a trilogy of components:
- Tell the audience your concept of what you will try to answer.
- Tell the audience your explanations and answer the concept.
- Tell the audience what you just said.
Number one begins like this:
The inclination has always been that the NBA regular season doesn’t mean much to the top teams. It’s nothing more than a warmup for what can be more than a 25-game second season through the Finals.
But however much or little you want to make of regular-season games, they are barometers that physically and psychologically have an impact on the rest of the season.
Number two states some constructs and supporting evidence (not quoted). This has some nice broad information that trips around the league so the audience is drawn in regardless of their geographic location.
Number three ends like this:
And that’s just the point we’ve been trying to make all along. On the surface, these games may not seem to mean much to teams destined for the playoffs anyway. But they do. They produce matchup situations that carry over to the playoffs as we saw in the dramatic Golden State upset of Dallas. They create enough confidence that maybe an upstart team like Portland knows it can accomplish certain things against a playoff team every time they play.
It’s about knowledge, momentum and consistency. All of that is created or lost during the regular season – and that’s assuming a team makes it to the postseason at all.
There might not be the clarity or exactness of a superb and gifted argumentative or persuasive essay; but, one should be able to get his point. Yes?