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EvanTH posted:https://theringer.com/lebron-is-still-painting-his-masterpiece-bdad85037eb0 LBJ has had many signature moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4GA3GB3Wk The most common signature LBJ moment is him sitting on the sidelines at the ASG with a reporter asking him if he'll do the dunk contest next year. It happens every year.  tanglewood1420 posted:When will whoever it was that ran the preseason survey (sorry, can't remember which wonderful poster it was) release the results? Hopefully within two weeks. Poll is now closed. 107 total responses so that was good and most ever.
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Spring Break My Heart posted:The Panthers went 15-1 and swept through the NFC but now have the 2nd worst record in the league, and the NFC itself hasn't had a lot of continuity as far as the front runners. The best odds any team got before the season was 8:1. The best odds for any NHL team this year were 9:1. Going into last year's playoffs, the best odds any team got were 7:1. The best teams in MLB flip frequently and the playoffs are always a total crapshoot. The best odds any team got before the season were 10:1. A team going 15-1 one season and then starting a season 1-5 is not parity. That's chaos and unpredictability. Parity, by definition, means teams having the same amount of talent and teams having a 50/50 shot to win a game AKA teams all hovering around 8-8, 7-9, 9-7 records in the NFL. This just doesn't happen. The NBA playoff teams are very hard to predict as well going into the season. In three years and over 200 tries here nobody has guessed the eight east playoff teams correctly. Continuity, predictability and parity are different things. There is confusion here because I have seen articles conflate the three as if each team getting a turn in the playoffs proves equality. Some articles I've read equate parity with fairness and fairness with whatever arbitrary/superficial idea pops into the sportswriters head as being fair. e.g. the NBA has had six different champions in the last seven seasons. That is not parity. Flip a coin sixteen times and see how often you go 15-1. You are correct that the MLB playoffs are a crapshoot (not parity) and that's due to the nature of the game more than teams having an equal level of talent. The MLB is insane as it's not uncommon for the team with the best run differential and/or SRS to miss the playoffs entirely. 2014 Oakland A's had the highest run differential and SRS and missed the MLB playoffs. Imagine GSW missing the playoffs last year because they lost a ton of games by one point. That's what happens in baseball. The nature of baseball/football make actual performance more unhinged from wins and losses compared to basketball/hockey. I looked at the colleration between MOV and wins in the big four sports in some seasons over the last twenty years. They were hovering around these averages in each season I checked: NBA .97 NHL .95 MLB .92 NFL .91 The NBA has had near perfect correlation some years. .9 is good but it definitely leaves room for a great NFL/MLB team to be unlucky and open the door for a weak team. Creating a false sense of parity. The spirit of Byron Scott lives on. Sharparoni posted:The NBA is a cool league, my dudes, and even though the Warriors are going to go 96-0, we can all still enjoy random Jazz-Hornets games, probably. Please enjoy the Timberwolves You mean 98-0.
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Ghost Dog posted:an mvp in his prime joining a historically good team has almost certainly never happened in any major american sport? i can't think of anything in basketball or football but maybe im wrong. i dont know what the nba could do to prevent it but it seems less routine than you are making it out to be We're in uncharted waters as KD to the 2017 Warriors is like putting David Robinson or Shaq on the 1997 Bulls but these are close: -1982 76ers lost in the finals and then Moses Malone joined the team. -1970 Bucks with a dominant KAJ gets Oscar Robertson the next year. -1968 Lakers lost in the finals and then Wilt Chamberlain joined the team. Eltoasto posted:https://twitter.com/joevardon/status/791020370639851521 Doing this to Dan Gilbert over and over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FO-M6XxSc tanglewood1420 posted:This time last year people were talking up New Orleans as a possible four or five seed, Davis as an outside MVP candidate and how he's going to win multiple MVPs and be the face of the league for the next decade. And now it's like he's all of a sudden an afterthought. His lack of the 3P shot is going to hurt going forward.
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straight up brolic posted:The problem is that Jordan's shot over Russell is literally the only truly "iconic" moment in NBA history. Everything else pales in comparison including this block which was amazing and incredible Bird and Havlicek famously stole balls for Boston in the playoffs. Or are you writing those off as undue Boston homerism? Ghost Dog posted:durant joining the warriors doesnt make then any more of a superteam it just made their competition worse. imagine being a player as good as durant and your major contribution to the team you are on is that you arent on another team jfc Durant joining does make them more powerful. Replacing Harrison Barnes with Durant is big. Curry, Klay and Durant can decide between themselves some games to cruise more and take the night off. This will allow them to retain stamina. I know a lot thought I was joking about championship hunger but it's a real thing and Durant has been accruing it. Tae posted:Why watch, I heard it's already over If the GSW don't win in 2017 I fear for what big signing they pull off during the summer. Metapod posted:When will you start releasing the poll results Hopefully within two weeks.
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:Should be 97-1 at that point Congratulations to GSW finishing 97-5 on the season. NickRoweFillea posted:Link me to the poll again I have to take it please Rick posted:Zogo can I change my vote for rookie PER leader to Jamal Murray? The poll is officially set in stone now that the season has started. straight up brolic posted:I just really don't think it occupy's the same real estate in people's mind that Jordan's shot does. This is not me saying "nothing incredible" ever happened, it's just that nothing will ever be as iconic in the media and our minds as the Jordan shot. It's what I imagine most people reflexively think about when they hear the words clutch gene. It is omnipresent. Every other legendary play requires some kind of prompting, it's not the platonic ideal of the game itself. Definitely seems like a generational/era thing.
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RaySmuckles posted:nah, he can stay retired. the man is a legend. a god. but retirement is the best thing for him and the team. He could come back to pass Stockton in career WS. Henchman of Santa posted:lol the Sixers AND the Lakers are both on national TV tonight. Somebody is trying to accelerate the death of traditional TV. Jack's Flow posted:Yeah, I hope people did not expect them to start 20-0 or whatever. I wanted a 35-0 start.
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-No NBA/ABA champion has opened the season with a 29 point loss. -Kawhi accrued .4 WS last night. .4 is Rose's WS total for all of last season. -Durant's regular season 20+ point streak continues: code:Zogo fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Brow put up 50/16/5 with 7 steals and 4 blocks. Mother of god. 46.5 GmSc on opening night is good. Only 1990 Jordan with a 51.2 has done higher (since 1984). R.D. Mangles posted:it will be funny to me if they still can't beat this lovely-rear end dyfunctional bulls team Bulls 8-0 in last two seasons against them. 
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/791362538650734592 There's no way he can know all that at this point. He's bluffing. Niwrad posted:I'm pretty pumped that I got to watch the Cubs win a WS game tonight and get to see the 3 alphas in person tomorrow night. Truly a great time to be a Chicago fan. -Durant joining the Warriors. -Cubs winning a WS game. -Embiid playing an NBA game. Going by this trajectory... -Trump wins in a few weeks and has HRC arrested live on TV.
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It wasn't that long ago that players were allowed to jump into the stands, attack fans and then go back into the game like nothing happened. If RW did that now he'd be sued and suspended for the year. Tae posted:Butler, Wade, Rondo, and MCW combined for 10/15 3-point shooting Bulls Alpha quadrumvirate with a historic debut. 81 more games of this! a new study bible! posted:Yeah Philly isn't and won't be good for years still. It's also a pretty damning statement on the game that the only way to contend for a title is to at least win a superstar in the lottery. Lakers are not subject to that general rule. Why is that damning?
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Papercut posted:It was and his strategy was perfectly legitimate. Philly has a much better chance of being a top-4 seed in the next few years than bad teams who chased mediocre trade and free agency targets and are still just bad, like Sacramento or Phoenix. The Kings and Suns play in a tougher conference but even if they were moved to the East I'm not seeing any strong evidence of them jumping to the top of the conference. All this 76ers hype is insane now that Embiid has played (and lost) one game. Let's not forget they had a -10 SRS last year. It'll be hard for any players to turn that around quickly. a new study bible! posted:The NBA has always been that way though so it doesn't matter unless they created a cool system for distributing draft picks. Give the championship winner pick 30, the worst team in the league pick 29, the championship runner up pick 28, second worse 27, and so on. That will consign the worst NBA teams to be awful for eternity and assure no FAs will want to sign there either.
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Here are some of the results from the 107 voters. I should post more results within the next two weeks.code:Dexo posted:KD has reached a new never before seen level of shookness. And it's only game one code:Zogo fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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The rare 50+ point triple double:code:Niwrad posted:Does KD think people are giving him poo poo for not working hard enough? I thought it was for being a bitch and joining the team that beat him in the playoffs. If he reads everything then he's got hundreds of faults that the Internet says he must fix ASAP. Lockback posted:This is going to be a good year. GmSc of 39.7+ in back to back games. Only Michael Jordan, David Robinson, Charles Barkley and Antawn Jamison have done that since 1984. Lockback posted:I would way rather be in the 76ers shoes than the Suns, probably more than Orlando. "Probably never a contender" does cover 85-90% of teams in a given year. Even if we open it up to a five or ten year interval going forward/backward it still covers the vast majority of the league.
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Tae posted:McDermit lead the Bulls in minutes at 27. The Bulls were supposed to be trash. Now they're trying to start the season 3-0 for the first time since 1997. Strawberry Panda posted:Is McBuckets an Alpha? It's looking that way. Please Eat A Vegetable posted:At the 3 alphas game, watching the Cubs game. I want to see Dwyane Wade hit a HR for the Cubs.
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Strawberry Panda posted:What's Buddy Hield's chuck status? #4 chucker in the whole league. Trailing only Langston Galloway, Dario Saric and Jeff Teague. So far Damian Lillard, DeMarcus Cousins, Kawhi Leonard and Anthony Davis are the elite scorers. Kawhi is 28/28 through three games from the FT line. Since 1964 only two have started better: code:Spacebump posted:Today I learned this crazy guy still makes videos. I'd watch ESPN more if it was like this.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Bird had a few seasons that were comparable and played much better defense than either one. If you put 2016 Curry and his shooting into the 1980s NBA his team might go 80-2 and sportscasters, gov't agencies would be saying he was an alien or a USSR biogenetic experiment that escaped the lab. milk milk lemonade posted:Curry had an excellent season and is an amazing player. my point (not joking in the slightest) is that Irving had a better series than Curry by every metric. There are a ton of metrics. Curry was better in a lot of them than Kyrie. milk milk lemonade posted:...I feel like seven games is pretty decisive. Seven games is not much really. I wouldn't draw serious conclusions from anything less than twenty games. Playoff series of 1, 3, 5 or 7 games (and 9 many years back) have been the pro sports standard in the US for so long that it's accepted.
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Lockback posted:You absolutely have to not count Wilt in these conversations, otherwise there is no reason to have these conversations. Wilt had bad FT shooting throughout his whole career. If he had average (or even below average) FT shooting he would've completely broken up the 1960s Celtics dynasty. But he had awful FT shooting so his teams lost a ton of close games with him shooting like DeAndre Jordan. Hashtag Banterzone posted:Someone (Zogo) estimate what Wilt's PER would've been in his 3 best seasons if they counted blocks and he averaged 8.8 a game for that time period. There's no good way to do that as there's so many missing pieces to the modern PER formula when applied to the 1960s. Steals, turnovers, ORBs, DRBs are all missing from the individual and league level. The 1960s was the era of statistical inflation as teams were playing at a ridiculous pace as well. If we had exact data a lot of value stats would be deflated. If we just magically added individual blocks and league blocks to the 1960s it's safe to assume his PER would go up. PER = (1 / MP) * (3P + (2/3) * AST + (2 - (2/3) - (0.5 * (lg_AST / lg_FG)) / (2 * (lg_FG / lg_FT)) * (team_AST / team_FG)) * FG + (FT * 0.5 * (1 + (1 - (team_AST / team_FG)) + (2/3) * (team_AST / team_FG))) - lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * TOV - lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * lg_TRB - lg_ORB) / lg_TRB * (FGA - FG) - lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * 0.44 * (0.44 + (0.56 * lg_TRB - lg_ORB) / lg_TRB)) * (FTA - FT) + lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * (1 - lg_TRB - lg_ORB) / lg_TRB) * (TRB - ORB) + lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * lg_TRB - lg_ORB) / lg_TRB * ORB + lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * STL + lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA) * lg_TRB - lg_ORB) / lg_TRB * BLK - PF * ((lg_FT / lg_PF) - 0.44 * (lg_FTA / lg_PF) * lg_PTS / (lg_FGA - lg_ORB + lg_TOV + 0.44 * lg_FTA))) * (lg_Pace / team_Pace) * (15 / lg_aPER) lg_TOV and lg_ORB is all over the PER formula and we don't have those for the 1960s. Now if you took a modern day elite player (who already was leading the league in PER) and gave him 700+ blocks in a season his PER would go up ~6-8 points.
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R.D. Mangles posted:i didn't know that i was waiting all of my life for Stacey King in the Three Alphas Era You scared a lot of Bulls fans. Bulls first 3-0 season in twenty years. Bulls +53 through three games. Second best start in franchise history. #wayofwade Redgrendel2001 posted:Until someone like Rick Mahorn-esque mofo crushed him into Bolivia. I'm also not sure how well he'd handle the hand checking that he doesn't have to deal with today. Checking would be relegated to irrelevance when he's launching 3P shots from 25-30 feet out. Nobody in the 1980s was close to doing anything like that. 1989 Seattle and 1988 Boston were the two greatest 3P teams of the entire decade. 2016 Curry was 3x as strong as either of those entire teams from 3P range. In Bird's 1984-86 prime every single team was bad from 3P land. R.D. Mangles posted:stacey king just came out against the "three alphas" nickname because it detracts from players like Taj Gibson and Michael Carter-Williams He stole my answer. milk milk lemonade posted:Name the metrics. Curry had better numbers in TS%, eFG%, ORB%, DRB%, TRB%, AST%.
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Bashez posted:Am I the only one that thinks that the Bulls are going to be okay as long as Wade holds up? I have a little faith in the Bulls to improve upon last year. In 43 minutes Bulls new star Isaiah Canaan has reached .4 WS. The same amount that Rose had all of last season. Redgrendel2001 posted:This is chicken/egg. People would stationary check all the time on the perimeter, but that wasn't something that began at 22'-23'. They let poo poo go everywhere after half court. You are mythologizing 1980s defense into something it wasn't. It's reminiscent of 1960s guys belittling Jordan in the 1990s like he wouldn't do well back in the 1960s because they'd injure him and play more physically. Yes, Jordan would've struggled in the era where no guards dunked and the elite guards were dribbling using only their dominant hand. I still remember seeing some of these old curmudgeons come on TV talking about how their era was supreme. Back then Youtube wasn't around so many people fell for it. They called MJ a "hotdog" and threatened physical violence against him! Now in 2016 we have Youtube and we know they were lying. I've seen plenty of 1980s games and think Curry would be fine. We're talking about an era where the average team attempted two 3P shots per game @ 25%. Early 1980s teams didn't even have a concept of 3P shot defense. I've seen footage of "good shooters" of the time standing at the 3P line and the opposing team is giving them a wide open shot every possession. Humorously, the shooter usually didn't even consider taking the shot. The 3P shot was regarded as a major gamble and a vice/bad habit well into the 1990s unlike today's NBA where it's a virtue and some have carte blanche. When Reggie Miller and other 3P shooters from the 80s and 90s wanted to shoot them they were able to. In game 1 of the 1992 NBA finals Jordan shot 6/9 from 3 and people thought he was a demigod. Completely pedestrian numbers today for some. Even in the mid-1990s when great 3P guys were emerging the average transition D was mediocre. Any time Pippen wanted to take a pull up 3 it was there for him. Curry would be feasting on that on a nightly basis. The D has improved significantly in that area in the last twenty years as back then teams were more into getting offensive rebounds. Here's Rex Chapman in the vaunted handcheck era against the BEST team of the 1990s and #1 DRtg team that season. Launching threes against two of the best perimeter defenders of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-4xwcxo9gk A career night for Chapman and a mere glimpse of what Curry would look like frequently in the 1990s. It'd be even more embarrassing if we put Curry back into the early 1980s when the elite scoring PGs/SGs of the time were putting up these intimidating numbers: code: PS Guards were generally smaller in the 1980s and 1990s as well. Pro sports evolution and increasing global competition (without NBA team growth) dictates that today's players are assuredly more skilled and competent than those playing 30+ years back. This primacy is another aspect in Curry's favor. Some might think Bird/McHale or Magic/Kareem would be winning titles today but I'm skeptical. Some may also think modern guys are just soft and not fit to play in the 1980s.
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Technology continues to embarrass our NBA stars: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nd-Scottie.html milk milk lemonade posted:That's loving incredible. I didn't look at the advanced stats because I didn't think this was possible on a cursory glance of their stats. Yea, Kyrie and LBJ easily had higher GmSc's than anyone on the Warriors last year.
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pylb posted:What happens to the Process nickname when he moves to another team? 'The Transprocess.' Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/ImHER/status/793873489065283592 Dexo posted:Nevermind disregard that I got tricked by Twitter. Spacebump posted:Ben Simmons owns. "Free college tuition for all diaper dandy's!" -Dick Vitale
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Great time to be a Bulls fan. 3-0 Bulls with an SRS of 20 way ahead of the entire league. Jimmy Butler has an ORtg of 150. Shipping Rose/Noah to NYC and importing Wade was a good idea. Water_polo_player_shooting_a_medicine_ball_in_an_NBA_game.mp4 RASHIBA WALLACE posted:So how do we feel about the Cleveland Indians potentially blowing a 3–1 series lead in the finals. Is this karma for LeBron's Halloween party? A sure sign that the Cavs will miss the playoffs this year? Discuss I'm apathetic on baseball wins/losses. Wasn't that long ago the Yankees blew a 3-0 lead against Boston. Declan MacManus posted:Patty Mills is cool and good though +71 this year. Leading the entire NBA just ahead of +63 Dewayne Dedmon.
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Shear Modulus posted:Is Kobe's the most "mainstream" jersey you'd see people wearing whereever or would that he Curry or LeBron these days? Or still MJ I've seen more Curry jerseys in the Chicagoland area than anything else during the last two years. Curl_like_smoke posted:I watched the first episode of Any Given Wednesday and it was just Charles Barkley complaining about how weak and watered-down the NBA is and how none of these guys would've been able to compete in his day. I'm sure they thought Barkley would be funny and wacky but instead he was just bitter and angry, which is a really bad way to start off a brand new show. It'd be like starting a political talk show and having the first guest be my dad. It's a coping mechanism. He'd be less bitter/angry if he won a ring. Now he has to hilariously rationalize that he'd be dominating 2016 NBA with his 25% 3P%. EvanTH posted:edit: I love small sample sizes Tonight the +16 SRS Bulls face the -13 Knicks. #1 vs. #30 rank. Bulls primed for a 30 point win. Carlosologist posted:What's the record for most FGA? Russ will get close to that 63 in Wilt's 100 point game.
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pepperchomp posted:Also is it just me, or is does Reggie Miller have the biggest hard on for Golden State? Klay/Curry/Durant are three disciples of Reggie Miller's game. He probably wishes he was out there with them. predicto posted:
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Ray Allen retired. Top 15 scorer and best 3P shooter of all-time. Curry will probably take title from him in 2018 though. Korver may pass him too eventually. I wanted to see LBJs face during the tenth inning but they didn't show that.
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Kevin Durant has scored 20+ points in seventy straight games. Not much of a consolation prize if the Warriors continue with trash defense and losing games though.Gobias Ind. posted:If the Raptors broadcast is to be believed, Demar DeRozan is the first player to score 30+ in his team's first 5 games since...Michael Jordan Yes, since 1964 these guys have done 30+ in each of the first five. code:code:ROFLburger posted:jesus the new NBA site is a piece of poo poo All major sports leagues are making their sites so hideous and hard to use so that people might considering turning their TVs on. Tae posted:John Wall is resting on back2back games until further notice. Lazy millennials or something...
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Marques Johnson seems mostly forgotten. Jordan stole his MJ nickname and 99.9% of people will think of Magic when they see the name "M. Johnson" on a stat sheet.Props Department posted:It's really sad that his wife was killed in OKC because they fired him for no good reason. But I guess there's no second guessing these things Basically yes. Although if we want to be cosmically thorough we have to acknowledge the theoretical possibility of something worse happening if he'd stayed. e.g. Everyday whole vanloads of people are killed by drunk drivers etc. A lot of people think they know the exact future. Nobody does. EvanTH posted:Zogoputer can you bring up the stats on roster continuity from one season to the next and how it seems to affect the performance of the best teams? thank you I've posted a lot of different RC stats so I'm not sure which ones you mean exactly. Generally, as RC% goes down the WP% goes down as well. Here's a list of champions and their RC%: code:
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Tae posted:I just noticed the Rockets are like 17th in pace. Which is....weird? Is that the slowest D'antoni's team has been? 2010 Knicks ranked 8th. WhyteRyce posted:Magic Johnson with a hot take If the Cavaliers win sixteen playoff games then LBJ should win Finals MVP too. Henchman of Santa posted:So, I found a quiz on Sporcle about foreign-born players in the NBA. I scrolled down to the comments and I found this. Thought you guys might appreciate it. http://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2011/12/blessed-kwan-zaa-from-sports-reference/
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Tae posted:So I mentioned that the NBA as a whole are doing conference rematches really soon, and I don't really get it? I thought they've done this before. I believe the Bulls played the same team closely in the 1990s. Spacebump posted:With the state of the Mavs Cleveland Cavaliers or if you want disappointment pick one of the other fourteen. R.D. Mangles posted:i am extremely bummed that the actually three alphas are good and owning everyone era lasted exactly three games I wanted a couple months of Bulls pseudo-domination. Three games came and went very quickly. edit: DeMar DeRozan only scored 23 points. The streak is over. Zogo fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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13/17. That's 22 3NP in a single game. Highest ever. Rest of team went 3/18. Redgrendel2001 posted:Cuban is going nuclear. Now that the Mavericks are bad he's reminding me more of his old self. Spacebump posted:This picture didn't get enough love. If Trump wins and the Cavaliers win the 2017 title. A preview of their White House visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZCzHYMEIeo
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Metapod posted:https://twitter.com/CrumpledJumper/status/796059989009801216 1995 Dana Barros does have the third best shooting PG season ever. Behind 2015 and 2016 Curry. euphronius posted:Rod Strickland is still the best Washington pg ever Most of the stats point to Gilbert Arenas as #1. kiimo posted:Kentucky fans ripped us for a year straight for comparing him to Hakeem. I'm waiting for a quadruple double. Libertine posted:Why are the Pacers so bad? I kind of expected them to be Top 4/5 in the East; however, they have a pretty poo poo record and point differential. Their schedule so far hasn't been insanely difficult either so. They don't have the greatest roster continuity from last year.
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Durant scored 18 points tonight. That ends his streak of 20+ point games:code:Smellyhead posted:Demar Derozan question, has any guard ever scored this many points in this few games with this few 3 pointers made? Since 1984 only 1987 Michael Jordan has. Death By The Blues posted:Also, if I was Lebron, gently caress playing for Cleveland, bring Ohio a championship and they do this? Or well any black athlete playing in a state that voted for Trump. James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis please report to Chicago, IL. Russell Westbrook, LeBron James, Dwight Howard please report to Minneapolis, MN. Bashez posted:The Clippers look like the absolute best team in the league. I would have considered last year the first year of the trio being in their prime. People don't seem to realize that you'd prefer one guy too old and the other two just right rather than one guy just right and the other two too young. I'm glad they didn't blow it up because last year they didn't get to show who they were. They're there now and I think they can make some noise. I think CP is the best PG ever and this may be the year he can get that ring to get ring groupies to pay attention to how good he actually is. They're also right in the RC% sweet spot of ~80% with the right amount of new vs. old player minutes.
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Nov 11, 2016 06:25
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humpthewind posted:Could someone explain RC% please? Roster continuity is the percentage of regular season minutes played by a teams players who were on the roster the previous season. http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/continuity.cgi NBA champions usually are around 80%. As an example these six guys were on the 2015 and 2016 Knicks teams: code:The sum of MP% = roster continuity So you add the MP% together and their roster continuity = 0.416965413 There is also something called roster stability which IMO is generally more accurate in that it takes into account the percentage of minutes the players played the previous season as well. Roster continuity will consider a guy who played 100 minutes one season and then 1,500 minutes the next season as being the same contribution. Roster stability does not. Usually it's not a big issue as players average minutes don't fluctuate wildly but if you have a couple star players miss significant minutes in one season it can be significant. code:In this case roster continuity and roster stability are close. 42% and 38%. Zogo fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Nov 11, 2016 07:28
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The Warriors are the first team in NBA history to have four different players hit four three-pointers in the same game. Durant/Curry have a good shot at becoming only the third pair of NBA/ABA teammates to be #1 and #2 in scoring (they're #2 and #3 now): code:Dejan Bimble posted:I think anyone who stayed on the Harrions Barnes will be good bandwagon deserves plaudits. He looked like a loving useless awful player in the last two sets of playoffs. Hand Knit posted:Demar's gotta have the best learning tool in recent NBA history. We reached "this is the best he's gonna be" with him like four to five years ago, but he's found a way to get better every year since then. Writing off young players prematurely is one of the stubborn pastimes of fandom. It's been done to everyone except the guys who were near MVP-level as rookies (a very short list).
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Nov 13, 2016 00:59
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Niwrad posted:I'm wondering if he'd be better to have than Rondo. The good thing about Rondo is that he doesn't demand to shoot sixteen times per game. Rondo knows to stop after a certain point. code:Niwrad posted:It has to be Gar not wanting to look bad by admitting he hosed up yet another 1st round pick. It's too bad because I think sending Portis to Hoffman Estates would help. You'd think they could sign MJs kids. Metapod posted:Young teams don't win They're not super young so I wouldn't be shocked. Although only two people picked them as playoff material in the poll.
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Nov 13, 2016 06:57
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CP3 has started the season so strongly that he's jumped into the #1 WS/48 of all-time slot:code:IcePhoenix posted:I saw that yesterday and I still want to know where that drat music is from Gremins 2: The New Batch on the NES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAbSoFUBsMk Some of my favorite 8-bit NES music. Batman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHHh9EB53A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEA8cievfUE The Legend of Zelda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIQTyBaGhw That channel has a ton. Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Wasn't Antoine Walker actually pretty good? Pretty good at shooting his teams out of any game. He has a career TS% of 48% which is awful for his era. He was the worst NBA shooter in 1997 and 2003. Zogo fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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Nov 14, 2016 23:06
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Batch #2 of the poll:code:-The current WS leader is CP3. -Rodney McGruder is the current rookie WS guy. -The current rookie PER leader is Malcolm Brogdon. (Embiid's is higher but he's not going to qualify at his current minute rate). 0 for 214  Batch #3 coming later this year. IcePhoenix posted:I respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree. Lockback posted:It's TS%/eFG% of 45%. That's not great, but its hardly awful. I agree its not in his best interest but if he hit 1 more 3 we'd be celebrating that line and it wouldn't change the game outcome. Cool Buff Man posted:I think 45% ts/efg is indeed bad, he didn't make that extra 3 and it's irrelevant whether or not it means they would have won but what do I know 3/10 from 3P range in a single game is within acceptable range. 3/10 per game over the course of a season is 246/820 and that's awful. That'd be the worst ever. Boosh! posted:What happened to Justise Winslow? He has a good chance of being this years worst shooter. Ish Smith may get in the way of that though.
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