this year the Spurs are 4-0 against Cleveland and Golden State with an average margin of victory of 20.8. Let's see if the Spurs smash GSW tonight. I don't think they will. I think its going to be a close low-scoring (by 2017 standards) game.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

March 29 2017 18:56 GMT

#1323

PG is just wearing a "trade me" sign at this point.

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 29 2017 19:20 GMT

#1324

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JimmyJRaynor

Canada16711 Posts

March 29 2017 19:28 GMT

#1325

good news on Durant's injury... chance to return before the playoffs and a return to contact drills depends on a re-eval to occur in 7 to 10 days. ESPN reporter guys are saying he looks good in non-contact drills.
twitter.com

Green was not on GSW's injury list today. So he should be in tonight's game. ya!

Djagulingu

Germany3605 Posts

March 29 2017 20:22 GMT

#1326

Ulis is looking good. He might be among top 5 of 2017 draft class.

slowbacontron

United States7722 Posts

March 29 2017 20:59 GMT

#1327

Ulis and Felder got a lot of hype as great steals in the 2016 draft. Part of the reason why I stupidly predicted Phoenix to do well this season.

Also, turns out it's Kay Felder's birthday today. Happy birthday.

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 29 2017 21:44 GMT

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Scarecrow

Korea (South)9172 Posts

March 30 2017 00:39 GMT

#1329

On March 30 2017 00:19 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Harden versus Paul.

https://cornerthreehoops.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/why-chris-paul-is-a-better-mvp-candidate-than-james-harden/

On March 30 2017 00:57 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i'm trying to figure out how removing pace of play skews the evaluation of offense

Yeah, you totally weren't talking about the current MVP race /s. A normal poster would just admit the mistake and that they thought it was a relevant/recent article, but there's about as much chance of that as Trump admitting he has average crowd sizes. For someone who professes to follow the league so closely it's hilarious that you didn't realize this was dated (the stats in Exhibit A and B are clearly not current). I guess it just fitted with the controversial narrative you wanted to go with. Lucky, there are people around here to pay attention to outcomes

icystorage

Jollibee19349 Posts

March 30 2017 00:50 GMT

#1330

On March 30 2017 03:56 Xeris wrote:
PG is just wearing a "trade me" sign at this point.

come to the blazers baby

JimmyJRaynor

Canada16711 Posts

March 30 2017 01:55 GMT

#1331

Golden State has a field goal.. problem is ... San Antonio has 3 touchdowns
EDIT: and a safety touch.

icystorage

Jollibee19349 Posts

March 30 2017 01:59 GMT

#1332

is westbrook even real

cLutZ

United States19574 Posts

March 30 2017 02:01 GMT

#1333

Dubs need to stop experimenting with offenses they saw in the NCAA tournament.

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 30 2017 02:30 GMT

#1334

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JimmyJRaynor

Canada16711 Posts

March 30 2017 03:50 GMT

#1335

On March 30 2017 09:39 Scarecrow wrote:

Show nested quote +

its related to my previous post about xRAPM. which extends back to 1965 in the search for measuring offensive prowess.

mistakes? i thought tonight's game would be a close low scoring affair.

cLutZ

United States19574 Posts

March 30 2017 03:58 GMT

#1336

This game has flipped crazily. First Golden State looked like my old high school with thier terrible offensive sets, now SA has decided the best plan is dancing on the 3PT line. Crazy

JimmyJRaynor

Canada16711 Posts

March 30 2017 04:02 GMT

#1337

After 3 games we really don't have a good head-to-head measure of GSW v. SAS. They've played 3 times. The only time both teams were at full strength was the 1st game of the season and Durant was not integrated into the GSW offense... and Aldridge was hitting 20 foot fall away jumpers. Pretty obvious, that once GSW adds Durant they'll be even better than they are now and they deserved to win tonight... soooo....

i think GSW will win the NBA title pretty easily. something like 16-4 or 16-5 in the playoffs.

Farewellfire

Finland1 Post

March 30 2017 10:02 GMT

#1338

On March 30 2017 09:39 Scarecrow wrote:

Show nested quote +

Classic. The guy basically Googles with some keywords that fit his "narrative-of-the-day" to back it up and then waits for the other jimmy or someone else to get all hot and bothered. If somebody points out a mistake he writes it off with an obnoxious smiley. Case closed, there's nothing left to discuss.

OK back to basketball - CP3 has no shot at the MVP award this year. He basically missed the race when he got injured last time plus Clippers aren't as good this year as people want them to be. No respectable basketball sources give him chance this season.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1521679-why-chris-paul-has-no-business-being-in-mvp-discussion

/sarcasm

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 30 2017 14:16 GMT

#1339

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JimmyJRaynor

Canada16711 Posts

March 30 2017 15:01 GMT

#1340

regarding the East v. West of this year and last year. Last year the East winning percentage against hte west was .485. This year the East's winning percentage against the west is .453. that's compiled over 450 games.

In particular Eastern Conference playoff teams are doing worse against the West compared to last year. Eastern Conference playoff teams as a group are substantially worse this year. Cleveland is worse than last year. None of Boston, Washington and Toronto are as good as Toronto was last year. Hell, once Dion Waiters returns to Miami they might be better than all of Boston, Washington and Toronto. Its hard to be sure based on so little data though.

Any how, whoever comes out of the East will not do well in the finals.

as long as you're going by the contraversial advanced analytics stat known as "Wins" the East is worse than it was last year.

regarding using xRAPM rather than the offensive stats compiled by the author in the Harden/Paul comparison.. xRAPM is predictive its not retrospective. So its not ideal for deciding on annual awards like MVP, 6th man of the year, etc.