STATS 16-17

http://bkref.com/tiny/U2zSC

hassan whiteside's season

if u lower the scoring threshold to 10pts a game it only adds one more season which is deandre from a couple of years ago where he shot 70%

http://bkref.com/tiny/ELTWi

how bout this list

dwight was so good

he really was

suns played the youngest starting 5 of alltime last night

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7p1kkfVAAIS7fD.jpg

Tyler Ulis (21)
Devin Booker (20)
Derrick Jones Jr. (20)
Marquese Chriss (19)
Alex Len (23)

tanking

total tank mode

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7sZpY7UwAEPLO-.jpg:large
I have noticed that he very rarely even puts a hand up
https://twitter.com/HoopsTroop/status/844184882825891840
or this is pretty classic, stops chasing completely and just goes to the paint to try and nab another reb.
https://twitter.com/HoopingHeaven/status/844016374112432128

who is derrick jones jr

A phenomenal dunker

ridiculous hops. wiry guy. was in the dunk contest.

devin booker 70 points O_O

http://bkref.com/tiny/wM7LI

37-17-5 from jokic

complete 70 game list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_single-game_scoring_leaders

also booker: 24/26 on FTs

list of >24 FTAs with >90 FT%

Steve Merril‏ @SteveMerril

#Clippers blew 94-76 lead w/ 4:59 left today vs #Kings. #NBA teams with 18+ pt lead under 5:00 were perfect 6746-0 SU L20 years until today.

damn

since the ASB
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C78IrjpVsAErXH3.jpg:large

Shane Young‏Verified account @YoungNBA

Kinda nuts how we’re almost 400 games into Kawhi’s career, and he still has more total steals than fouls. Think about how easy it is to foul

that Booker game is so weird. its almost like the gameplan was straight up "get Booker 70 points".

yeah that game should come with a huge asterix imo.

westbrook with another crazy line

57/13/11

most points in a trip dub ever

wow

def disagree with booker asterisk talk tho. celtics defended him hard down the stretch

Still need to watch that game. Got it recorded.

the philadephia 76ers defended wilt as hard as they could when he scored 100, too.

celtics had a pretty good cushion that game, they cldve taken the ball out of bookers hands if they wanted to

they didn't double until quite late in the piece iirc

isn't the beef not that the celts weren't guarding him hard but that the suns were purposefully lengthening the game to get him more possessions (i didn't watch)

ya they took some fouls at the very end, it happened in some of the other big scoring games too apparently

draymo first player w 150 steals + 100 blocks in a season since Wade 09

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8veDPrXYAAPF-w.jpg

lol

haha

got to see Wardell in person last night and dude was on fire in the first (25 p)

42-5-11-2-2

3 missed FTs was weird tho

what if steph had gone through life as ward curry, p cool name

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-suns-get-whistled-more-than-a-high-school-gym-class/?addata=espn:frontpage

boban career high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMYXLoSIH5s

russ 50-16-10 and the game winning 3. only 2 TOs.

broke Oscars trip dubs in a season record. idk what to think about this Russ year tbf.

its incredibly impressive and he's not the mvp.

that rebounding video from a week or so back left a weird taste in my mouth abt rwb this year tbh

i mean i'm not quite at "this needs an asterisk!" level or anything but the numbers are inflated in a gross way imo

what he's done is historic and also a bunch of stat padding. it just goes to show how talented he is and how down his teammates are to boost his ass like that. he should get all the teammates' names tatted on his back if he wins MVP.

like idk how much yall put into advanced stats, but here we go...

Win Shares (thru apr9 2017)
Harden (1st)
Kawhi (3rd)
Russ (5th)
Bron (6th)

Win Shares per 48 (thru apr9 2017)
KD (1st)
Kawhi (2nd)
Harden (5th)
Russ (10th)
Bron (11th)

altho...
Value over replacement player (thru apr9 2017)
Russ (1st by a long shot)
Harden (2nd)
Bron (3rd)
Kawhi (5th)
KD (10th)

but then...
Offensive Rating/Defensive Rating (thru apr9 2017)
Russ (112/104)
Harden (118/107)
Kawhi (121/101)

also
effective FG% (thru apr9 2017)
Kawhi .540
Harden .524
Westbrook .475

ok i think that's good. so basically russ put all the sliders on 100 to max out his stats and his team mostly benefited from it, but they're going to win less than 50 games. kawhi is playing more efficient offense although doing less on that end and is taking on a larger defensive role and leading a team to >60 wins. harden is having the best offensive season of the three (im judging off a combination of efficiency and productivity) and responsible for the most wins of all three.

to me the question is, is it harden or kawhi? but then again ive always hated russell so ymmv.

VORP is based on box plus-minus, which as the name implies is heavily derived from the box score. if we're giving russ credit for averaging a triple-double then giving him credit for leading in VORP/BPM is kind of redundant

you didn't mention real plus-minus, which CP3 leads B)

the closest stats we have to baseball's WAR are probably WS and the WAR that's derived from RPM

russ tbf is crushing PER too

1 russ
2 harden
3 bron
4 cp3
500 kawhi

h8u