Seems like his top 2 choices are the Cavs and the Lakers, which I don't see among his best moves to be on a championship team.
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
Seems like his top 2 choices are the Cavs and the Lakers, which I don't see among his best moves to be on a championship team. | ||
Twinkle Toes
United States3605 Posts
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Jerubaal
United States7675 Posts
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
It's hard to be convinced that overall strategy has an impact because it's such a high variance game compared to basketball. You could have a way better gameplan AND players than your opponent and still lose 1-0. So as a football noob I'm not even sure teams bother with deep strategy :D. | ||
JimmyJRaynor
Canada15564 Posts
i know way more about the NBA than i do about the NFL and yet Bills games are way more fun than Raptors games. That is both for me and the fans. Bills fans have way more fun than Raptors fans. Also, coming home from Buffalo Bills games amongst thousands of Canadians in their cars is a great way to smuggle US products back into Canada. as long as everyone is having fun... who cares how much they know about the game. | ||
JimmiC
Canada22814 Posts
I wonder if his kid asked him to do this? If not family dinners gonna be ruff! | ||
Twinkle Toes
United States3605 Posts
WTF! Why would the Wizards accept Rivers for Gortat?!!! Their lineup is full of 1-2 players, if they wanted to release Gortat, they should have looked for another center or a 4. I think this is an agreement between Coach Rivers and management to keep his coaching stint and improve the morale and culture of the team. Obvious win for the Clippers, but why on hell would Wizard even consider this at the pitch stage. | ||
ivancype
Brazil485 Posts
On June 26 2018 23:47 ZenithM wrote: I'm convinced most soccer fans don't get what is going on on the field at all. Whether there is some unseen depth to the game I couldn't know, I really don't play/watch football at all. It's hard to be convinced that overall strategy has an impact because it's such a high variance game compared to basketball. You could have a way better gameplan AND players than your opponent and still lose 1-0. So as a football noob I'm not even sure teams bother with deep strategy :D. i bet fans know the same about each sport strategy they are fanatic for. As you said, you dont know much about football so you dont understand whats going on... And i dont know about this variance you talking, best players = win. The richest teams, capable of hiring the best players and coaches are always winning. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, Manchesters, Chelsea. Specially in the leagues. Playoffs are a little more random but still one of these teams is going to win, most likely. The World Cup is more random, teams can get a while to warm up because they dont get much practice for the tournament and playoffs are best of 1, but the usual teams still wins as they are the nations with best players. In 20 WC, 77 different nations qualified only 8 champions and 3 teams with 13 titles. | ||
cLutZ
United States19551 Posts
A few things to note: 1. Sweden's keeper in this game was both bad, and lucky. His luck greatly compensated for badness, otherwise the score would have been 4+ to 1. His badness was particularly shown on the last goal where he didn't understand the role of a wall and his job to protect against crosses and farside goals. 2. Germany finished extremely poorly in this game (part of the keeper's luck). Had they had a Miroslav Klose in the game the score would have been brutal. This is also why guys like Ronaldo and Messi (particularly Ronaldo because his game can otherwise look very boring) are so incredibly valuable on good/great teams like Madrid/Barca. They translate these opportunities into points almost every time, whereas a guy like Werner can get a lot of great chances without getting a lot of goals. 3. Germany thus was unlucky and unskilled at the two most important areas of the game (goalkeeping and finishing), and won 2-1. At worst would have lost the game (against a fairly good Sweden side) 2-1 if they had had even worse luck in those 2 positions. This is despite not playing their best ball controller Ozil who has served as Germany's "point guard" since 2010 because he's kind of a jerk. | ||
ZenithM
France15952 Posts
i bet fans know the same about each sport strategy they are fanatic for. Definitely. I don't think average basketball fans know more about their game than football fans know about theirs. I was just responding to Jerubaal. Fans of popular sports are not intellectual elites (or "anything" elites for that matter) and that translates into their understanding of the game. I still think football has way more variance than basketball though. | ||
JimmyJRaynor
Canada15564 Posts
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andrewlt
United States7645 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22814 Posts
That being said baseball is by far the sport that is most easily "mathed" out and broken down statistically. For playoffs and championships then football has the most variance because of 1 game series compared to 7. (in NA) | ||
JimmyJRaynor
Canada15564 Posts
On June 28 2018 00:33 andrewlt wrote: Basketball likely has the least variance among the major sports at the professional level. The current style of play has increased it somewhat but it should still be lower than other sports. ya, i think the 3-point shooting has increased variance in basketball. 3-point shooters go through hot and cold streaks akin to baseball hitters. i think the "hot goalie" in hockey gives that sport a much higher variance than basketball. also, having to play games on bad ice in june. the variance in ice quality really increases in late may and june. | ||
andrewlt
United States7645 Posts
On June 28 2018 00:45 JimmiC wrote: Which makes sense because one player can do so much in Basketball compared to other sports. Lebron played almost every minute in the playoffs. And he plays defense and offense. He can control the ball every offensive possession. Then on top of that there is way more opportunities to score then any other sport. So missing a shot isn't as big as others. That being said baseball is by far the sport that is most easily "mathed" out and broken down statistically. For playoffs and championships then football has the most variance because of 1 game series compared to 7. (in NA) I think it's less about the impact of one player (since NFL qbs and hockey goalies are almost the same way) and more about scoring opportunities. The closer the success rate is to 50%, the less variance there is. If the success rate is high (think NFL kickers on close field goals), then there is a lot of luck in missing. If the success rate is low (hockey, soccer), then there is a lot of luck in making it. Basketball teams also routinely have around 80-100 possessions nowadays. I'm not quite sure of the exact number but it does a lot to smooth out variance. | ||
JimmiC
Canada22814 Posts
On June 28 2018 04:15 andrewlt wrote: I think it's less about the impact of one player (since NFL qbs and hockey goalies are almost the same way) and more about scoring opportunities. The closer the success rate is to 50%, the less variance there is. If the success rate is high (think NFL kickers on close field goals), then there is a lot of luck in missing. If the success rate is low (hockey, soccer), then there is a lot of luck in making it. Basketball teams also routinely have around 80-100 possessions nowadays. I'm not quite sure of the exact number but it does a lot to smooth out variance. I agree with your second point but peyton manning coukdnt play defense and Hasek could never score. So while impactful. Not the same. | ||
JimmyJRaynor
Canada15564 Posts
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23911959/zach-lowe-houston-rockets-proposal-flip-nba-draft-free-agency | ||
cLutZ
United States19551 Posts
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
But really I think PG goes to LA. Do you think it's enough for Lebron to come too? Edit: Ok I've thought about it and given what we hear, I've been converted to the church of LeGone haha. | ||
JimmyJRaynor
Canada15564 Posts
On June 28 2018 05:40 cLutZ wrote: A lot of basketball's perception of non-randomness is also its 7 game format in the playoffs. It is evidence to the extreme randomness of Hockey & Baseball that they are perceived as random despite having 7 game systems. The NFL would, IMO, look very non-random with even 5 game series (probably even with the home-home cumulative format that UEFA uses). i think both NHL hockey and International Men's hockey has grown in randomness/variance over the past 40+ years. in MLB on only 1 occasion has a team not named the New York Yankees repeated as World Series champs. | ||
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