Advanced Metrics Nonsense

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#351
Part of the thought process was when Wright came out, he was two years younger than Noah and had a bigger ceiling. I'm not saying that was the right call.

Wright is a decent NBA player too.
 
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#352
Wright is a decent offensive player. He's garbage on defense, always in the wrong spot. He's not very strong either.
 
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#353
He blocks a lot of shots, and his rebound numbers have suffered since he's been moved to C, but as a forward he had pretty decent rebounding numbers. He's 6' 9" 210 lbs, so I don't expect him to be strong enough to dominate centers. Don't know why they have him there. Very efficient scorer.

BTW, he's from Brentwood. I must've forgotten that.
 
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#356
Im not sure where to put this, we need a thread for random NBA stuff, but James Hardin welcomed OKC to his house tonight...

46 pts on 14-19 fgs, 7-8 from the arc, 11-12 ft. 8 rebounds, 6 assists, and a 122-119 win
 
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GahLee said:
Kobe is 1 for his last 34 from three. Is there a metric for that?
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The average 3 is made about 35% of the time, so you would've hoped he'd make 11 of them...since he made only one, there were 30 points left on the table.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
Any coaching metrics? Like points scored in the minute after a timeout.
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Nothing like that. They looked at figures on like 65 coaches (past and present), about a dozen or so were HOF coaches, and they looked at player productivity changes. They found that basically every coach improves player productivity in his 1st year coaching him, but only Popovich and Jackson showed they could regularly improve a player's productivity into his 2nd and 3rd year with the player.

The conclusion is that most coaches don't make much of a difference at all. Winning is mostly about talent and minute allocation.
 
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n_huffhines said:
WTF! Knicks traded Brewer. They were 18-6 with him when he was getting minutes, but he hasn't played 20 minutes since mid-December, and they've gone 14-13 (that includes 5 games without Brewer...1-4). They have horrible perimeter D. They are stupid as hell.

BTW, Knicks are worse on D this year than last year under D'Antoni.
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Make that 1-5
 
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#366
Hey. Why are the Nuggets so good statistically (team stats) but only a 5 seed in the west?

They seem to shoot very well and play good defense.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
Hey. Why are the Nuggets so good statistically (team stats) but only a 5 seed in the west?

They seem to shoot very well and play good defense.
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They are an average defensive team. Also, they had a brutal, brutal schedule to start the year.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
Hey. Why are the Nuggets so good statistically (team stats) but only a 5 seed in the west?

They seem to shoot very well and play good defense.
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The 3 stats I look at when I evaluate teams...

They shoot .564 (I'm not sure how that ranks, but it's well above average. I haven't found a site where I can compare team by team ranks on advanced stats). They rank 3rd in rebound %, and 28th in defensive rebound %*. Then they are 19th in turnover margin.

* If you just look at Denver's total rebound % it is misleading about their ability, because the really crash the offensive glass. All teams focus on defensive rebounding, where Denver doesn't rank that well. I use both numbers to kind of balance out my assessment of their rebounding ability.
 
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