"We don't play in a Staples Center," Ratner said, knowing that an arena surrounded by an axis of roadway and various incarnations of the Olive Garden was never going to attract a consistent pro basketball crowd.
"We just want to be a consistent, good, physical basketball team.
"So I guess he's tired of having me say 'consistent basketball.' But I think he understands if he's going to play, he's going to have to show me the same thing every game".
"You look at the state of the league, and even though you have UNC and Duke as consistent national powers in basketball, it's a really patently average football league that's generating the money".
While his perimeter jumper remains a work in progress (teams are daring him to shoot open 16-footers), he has actually strung together a highly productive and consistent season scoring the basketball.
Of course, none of this means anything if they don't start playing above.500 basketball on a consistent basis.
The pattern in basketball is also consistent with such a process, but where on-court team skill varies inversely with lead size as a result of teams deploying their weaker players when they are in the lead and their stronger players when they are not.
In basketball, he was "consistent as a guard on Purdue's cage combination".
College basketball data are consistent with assumptions outlined for the UNT [1].
