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EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

ragle posted:

I don't think CJ McCollum shooting 46% on pull-up 2pt jumpers is causing defenses to radically change their gameplan
if anything, over-committing to him would allow for layups or 3s. better that he shoot the 2pt jumper running off screens.

never forget (change post up to mid-range jumper and adjust the ppp up, same concept)
https://twitter.com/CraigMeyerPG/status/814343009244483585

Pull up jumpers doesn't include pulling up from three?

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Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.
Averaging 46% includes both well defended and not well defended. If you have an opportunity for a clean 3 or a layup you always take that, every player follows that. But defenses are trying to prevent that too. No defense is giving up free midrange jumpers, and if your better than average at that you now have to put more effort defending it and you are more likely to generate points when that's the only thing you have.

Strawberry Panda
Nov 4, 2007

Breakfast Defecting, Slow Dick Touching, Root Beer Barreling SwagVP
It also means that that's a shot CJ can always get. So when everything else is covered or a play breaks down, you can give the ball to CJ and he can score with his pull up jumper.

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd
Yes but how can I calculate the EV of a CJM P-UJ with knowing whether 46% includes 3PAs!!? WTB SoJ

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man

EvanTH posted:

Yes but how can I calculate the EV of a CJM P-UJ with knowing whether 46% includes 3PAs!!? WTB SoJ

It doesn't include threes.

http://stats.nba.com/players/pullup/#!?sort=PULL_UP_EFG_PCT&dir=1&Season=2016-17&SeasonType=Regular%20Season

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
Luckily Embiid hasn't inherited the Dwight/Shaq "humor" gene

Also dunk of the year clearly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbvnt9h8RE
Also also we the first?? franchise to claim space so the groundwork is already being set for Pop's 2036 galactic basketball championship. The Talk 'N Text Europa Texters put up a good fight though
https://mobile.twitter.com/tonyparker/status/819925735259377664

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Punkin Spunkin posted:

Also also we the first?? franchise to claim space so the groundwork is already being set for Pop's 2036 galactic basketball championship. The Talk 'N Text Europa Texters put up a good fight though
https://mobile.twitter.com/tonyparker/status/819925735259377664

Lacob Vivek and Ballmer probably seething rn

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
Please, astronauts have been watching Rockets games from the ISS for a decade now.

Also, this woman was recently sentenced for statutory rape in Houston and all I could think of was e2m2's avatar

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



chunkles posted:

Also, this woman was recently sentenced for statutory rape in Houston and all I could think of was e2m2's avatar



hahahahaha

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Anyway if we're being honest with ourselves the NBA team with the only real claim to space right now is the Nets sadly

Libertine
Jun 21, 2004

When I die, I hope they say I made the eSports industry a better place than I made millions of dollars.

chunkles posted:

Please, astronauts have been watching Rockets games from the ISS for a decade now.

Also, this woman was recently sentenced for statutory rape in Houston and all I could think of was e2m2's avatar



ayyyyyyy

BoonyPC
Feb 19, 2007

That was a sick pass, Top 10 plays had it behind two generic passes leading to dunks :psyduck:

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man

BoonyPC posted:

That was a sick pass, Top 10 plays had it behind two generic passes leading to dunks :psyduck:

People usually give negative points for degree of difficulty for some reason.

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988



Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop
Andrew Johnson put out his midseason player ttracking plus minus, and the guy I said was good, Isaiah Whitehead, because he's the Nets starting pg is actually the worst player in the league not named Marquesse Chriss. I still think he could be a solid backup in the future.

Check it out, I prefer its conclusions to BAPM and rpm in a lot of cases
http://fansided.com/2017/01/11/nylon-calculus-pt-pm-halfway-nba-season. Manu continues to have freakishly high defensive plus minus stats because he generates turnovers and flops around.

Al farouq aminu is the draymond esque transmission of the blazers, when he's healthy they're the scrappy team that can win any night. When he's wounded,they're hopefuless

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

You can link tweets here, no need to screenshot. Also, whoever screenshot this is not following Embiid on twitter, and therefore is not leading a fulfilling life.

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.


I really want to see Embiid and Conor MacGregor just talk poo poo for a couple hours.

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Athanatos posted:

You can link tweets here, no need to screenshot. Also, whoever screenshot this is not following Embiid on twitter, and therefore is not leading a fulfilling life.
Embedded tweets on this site don't include the internally quoted tweets so conveying the interaction here without screenshots would destroy the elegance contained within

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

Redgrendel2001 posted:

I really want to see Embiid and Conor MacGregor just talk poo poo for a couple hours.

https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/819256823064784896

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man
Is Ian Clark any good?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


Wow that is some pro tier twittering

That's cold man

joshtothemaxx
Nov 17, 2008

I will have a whole army of zombies! A zombie Marine Corps, a zombie Navy Corps, zombie Space Cadets...

dokmo posted:

Is Ian Clark any good?

I lean toward no but that PTPM stat has him on par with Rudy Gay, Thaddeus Young, and Evan Fournier. That's not so bad.

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs

EvanTH posted:

Yes but how can I calculate the EV of a CJM P-UJ with knowing whether 46% includes 3PAs!!? WTB SoJ

Hahaha perf shako 4 3/20/20

SunshineDanceParty
Feb 7, 2006

One Road. Two Friends. One Ass.

euphronius posted:

Wow that is some pro tier twittering

That's cold man

They can write article after article about Embiid's growth as a basketball player, but his twitter game has always been elite.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
So I was cycling through podcasts and saw one of the dunc'ed guys was on BBallbreakdown, who apparently has a podcast of their own now.

Less than 10 minutes in, I hear "Jerian Grant is a great 3 point shooter" followed almost immediately by "Why don't the Thunder use Morrow and Ilyasova more?" from Coach Nick :psyduck:

And this was all because he was complaining about thunder fans

Dynamite Dog
Dec 12, 2012

Athanatos posted:

You can link tweets here, no need to screenshot. Also, whoever screenshot this is not following Embiid on twitter, and therefore is not leading a fulfilling life.

Always screenshot tweets, especially funny ones.

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

https://twitter.com/mynameisjohn/status/820059293588328448

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://twitter.com/OfficialNBARefs/status/820048003738308608

https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/820055525442392064

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

EvanTH posted:

Knicks fined Rose $200,000 dang that's a lot of cash

If Rose had gone MIA for a few weeks they could've saved even more $$$.

chunkles posted:

^^^ speaking of me and my short attention span

NBA is mulling changes to speed up the end of the game, because of all you got dang millennials and your ADHD

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18460922/nba-mull-pressing-throttle-games-endings-adam-silver-says

A good idea. They should also prevent coaches from calling timeouts every time the opposing team makes a three.

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs

Zogo posted:

If Rose had gone MIA for a few weeks they could've saved even more $$$.


A good idea. They should also prevent coaches from calling timeouts every time the opposing team makes a three.

And if Rose had gone to MIA their tank would be much more successful! Folks,

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

I'm pretty sure having Derrick rose doesn't effect your ability to tank

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

https://np.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/5nqf26/im_a_celtics_fan_in_china_some_information_about/dcdpxzb/

quote:

Another interesting thing is that in Chinese, the way we pronounce 'jimmer ' means 'lonely 'in Chinese. So jimmer's nickname is 'king of loneliness' in China. He's super cool and super popular.

Move over Vaseline eating Marbury, your statue is getting replaced

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

I read more into this and while Cuban isn't the good guy in this situation, he did have good points about how being an NBA ref shouldn't basically be a job for life and they should be able to ensure all refs are quality/drop the bad refs. He also mentioned that fired refs get excellent pensions. Getting new refs that are quality has to be insanely difficult. If you're ever watching a game and the commentators mention the words "rookie referee" get ready to pull your hair out. It be cool if getting rid of the lesser quality refs meant they could easily find replacements but that probably isn't possible.

I'd side with the refs for ideological reasons on this subject as a whole but it's an interesting situation.

Mr. Mambold
Feb 13, 2011

Aha. Nice post.



EvanTH posted:

Knicks fined Rose $200,000 dang that's a lot of cash

Isn't that basically a single game's salary?

edit

straight up brolic posted:

I'm pretty sure having Derrick rose doesn't effect your ability to tank

It might affect it however

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

I don't care how old you are I'll shank you

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

straight up brolic posted:

I don't care how old you are I'll shank you

Those golden okies have skin like leather mate

Hashtag Banterzone
Dec 8, 2005


Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM
Somehow I had not seen this

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

https://twitter.com/Sixers/status/820063722861305856

this guy is unreal.

needs to do a nusr_et seasoning parody imo

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.

straight up brolic posted:

https://twitter.com/Sixers/status/820063722861305856

this guy is unreal.

needs to do a nusr_et seasoning parody imo

Omg I think Embiid is my favorite player now.

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Mr. F!
Sep 21, 2016

Embiid rules

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