i have something to say about the offs THE 2016 NBA PLAYOFFS

west currently some unholy marriage of cooked and shooked

i like how defense is so enigmatic that the only way these advanced stats can get at it is calculating the player's overall impact on the game and then subtracting their offense

the dark secret of basketball is that its actually impossible to completely untangle a player from their team/scheme statically or otherwise, those nu defensive metrics are only at the outer edge of unreliability

which is p cool imo i like stats being useful but not definative

i mean like obvs duncan was not actually one of the best defensive players in the league this year, but was he put in a position to succeed, def

the regressed plus/minus stats actually have more predictive power than i expected, i'd like to look at just instances of consecutive years where a player switched teams though and see how much that goes down

i proposed in one of these threads that all players shd be forced to switch teams every year in order to make stats better

we'd also find out which coaches are actually good im in favor of this

it shd be a law def, all players randomly assigned teams at the beginning of each season

Realistically, tonight will be the last game of the blazers' season, but I am hoping they can string it out long enough for one more game in Portland. All that would be required is good active defense, some hot shooting from Aminu & Crabbe to relieve pressure on Lillard and McCollum, and some better than average offensive rebounding. I give them a 15% chance of a win, but hey, it's a chance!

Yeah probs about right

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oh sup raptors it's nice to see you have offense again

I can't put my finger on why and kd was better last night but right from the outset I really felt like Westbrook was just *in control* of that game, in some kind of quasi mystical bullshit first take sense, right from the first few possessions

Kawhi tried to wrestle it away and made some astonishing plays but lma didn't really step it up, maybe gassed from scoring so much the first couple games

Shaq is just staring straight ahead as chuck and Kenny talk about Dwight being on last night

ha shaq does that weird shit all the time

shaq is a deeply strange being

shaq is a moron

i love how nobody cares about this series at all

man i've seen too many injuries caused by a defender trying to draw a charge while a player is up in the air. the restricted area arc should be extended out by like 3' imo

yeah demarre looks real hurt :/

i hate this garbage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI5veHFijAk

the heat playing a 5 guard lineup for the entire 4th quarter of a playoff game is like watching a science experiment

yet somehow every raptors set still ends in a long 2

this series is epic praying fervently for game 7 over here

feel like i see a lot of south asian fans r desi americans into basketball

wow big shot

happy 4 kyle

i really wonder how long the heat could play lineups with no center bcuz it's how they can beat the raps but it might take too much energy for 48 mins (also fouls)

ya wld be willing to watch them test it

oh shit lol thought this was game 6

cavs sweeps have been awesome but a weird aspect of them is that i feel like cavs are totally absent from these playoffs

every time i think about it's like shit the cavs don't play for like another week

grats to steph on his award he is an extremely anointed person who i am glad to witness

it makes the cavs a bit more vulnerable in the 1st quarter of the first game as they will be a bit rusty, but otherwise the cavs are happy to get a bit of rest and no pressure for a few days.

such contrast between tor-mia and this matchup

its like not even the same game theyre playing

this one in color

gettin chippy in oracle rn

I've been enjoying the madness of heat-raptors and am basically cool with them except when they're playing the celtics, but the series is by no means good basketball on either side & every time it threatens to be (crazy juicewade game, lowry going off, biyombo doing a hakeem impression), it's counteracted by something shitty and awful

be that injury or washedness

xp self to clarify "them" meant raptors in case that wasn't obvious

refs shd just tee dray up before the game to get it out of the way

raps/heat basically the first world war of basketball series

that was a hilarious two free throws

a real journey

I forsee 70 second half poitns for GSW

how much you got riding on it

my life