2017_____N–B–A–S–T–A–T–S_____2018

the semi-mythical era when keith van horn could get off 30 shots

ha that was one of duncan's mvp years, too. he still had 17 rbs and 4 blocks that game, soe that's cool

According to @SecondSpectrum, Ryan Anderson has an effective FG pct of 113%(!!) off passes from Chris Paul.

24-31 including an outrageous 22-29 from beyond the 3-pt line.

Effectively breaking effective FG pct has to be in @dmorey's contracts, right?

— Micah Adams (@MicahAdams13) December 10, 2017

p good %

Oladipo new career high vs the nuggets

47-7-6

15/28 fg, 6/12 3pt

dipo keeps on doin it maybe hes actually good

Dipo vs Russ this week might be a must watch game.

im so happy for oladipo, come back home to indiana and now he's an all-star

also it must feel great to not be russ' teammate, ngl

That list upthread made me remember that Jerry Stackhouse averaged 30 PPG in one actual full season.

ha no shit! two-time all star. turn of the century NBA was a trip.

also it is weird that no other season came close to that one too!

also also he fell off CRAZY hard after that.

stackhouses game was the nadir of the nbas insanely physical chucking era, the shadow iverson

Loved how he squatted all the way down to shoot free throws

D rebound rate on FTs (which are mostly freebies) for the top 10 rebounding guards:
Russ - 39.5%
Ball - 20%
Lowry - 3.7%
Oladipo - 2.3%
Lillard - 3.7%
Caldwell-Pope - 5.4%
Curry - 2.6%
Harden - 17.9%
Dunn - 3.4%
DeRozen - 11.4%

— Kyle Chilek (@K_Chile22) December 10, 2017

wow, investigate this adam silver

a little further in the comments someone mentions that Russ was at like 61% last year (Harden was 40%).

thunder have a formation to get russ those rebounds, kyrie stole one that he totally wldnt have been able to if they werent funneling it to russ and got a crucial basket in the last 5mins of the celtics big comeback v okc earlier this year

throw an asterisk on his mvp imo

2017 MVP Russell Westbrook*

*hella stat-chasing while he team was mad mediocre

i give him credit for innovating but after you do it once the trick is played out, especially if yr team is a tragedy

yeah, it was different alst year bc of whole post-kd empathy but now it's like, ok you're loaded with all-stars, you shouldnt suck worse but u do and also all your old teammates are thriving w/o u

actually i am fine w/ all events that led to hoodie melo

thunder shd be looking to trade melo wonder if the rockets still want him

maybe they can trick them into trading harden, just by accidentally pushing some buttons bc they were distracted on twitter or something, like just traded harden for melo str8 up with my nba 2k11 simulation oh woops that's real life no take backs biiiiiiiiiih

ha wld be fitting since okc already did that too

Harden had 26 points, 17 assists and 6 steals tonight. The last player to do that? pic.twitter.com/txcC0AhpvI

— Kelly Scaletta (@KellyScaletta) December 12, 2017

Victor Oladipo's shot chart this season (L, 31.0 USG%, 59.7 TS%) and last season (R, 21.3 USG%. 53.4 TS%). Making 44.4% of his 3s this year has helped just a bit. pic.twitter.com/6nb39Yq16y

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) December 12, 2017

david west is a swatting machine this year. he's averaging 1.2 block in 12 minutes per game. He's only averaged more than 1 per game one year in his career (ten years ago) and obv in a lot more minutes.

― Spottie, Friday, December 8, 2017 7:08 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thats insane

― lag∞n, Friday, December 8, 2017 7:22 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hes old

― lag∞n, Friday, December 8, 2017 7:22 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

10-2-1-1-4 in 18 minutes yesterday and two big dunks. He's def a Juiceman candidate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0p43jytFg

xp i hope Dipo can sustain this or close to it.

3pt% up a ton 3pt attempts up a bit, 2pt% up a bit 2pt attempts up a ton, getting all those attempts at the rim is prob the most heartening part of that graft as far as sustainability, ive been a dipo doubter since jump street but its cool to see him succeed

looks like he just needed a good example of how to work hard, he credits westbrook with showing him how to prepare and work out and such. he cut up his body in the offseason and it's paying off.

ah yeah that makes sense getting super fit def can level guys up

Donovan Mitchell the last 6 games:
34.5MIN
25.8PTS
3.7 AST
2.2 REB
1.7 STL
48.2% FG
44.2% 3FG (on almost 9 attempts)

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) December 12, 2017

That guy is real nice, would not be surprised if he turned into an eventual all star. What a good draft

Asterisks on the first two picks so far excepted obv

mitchell is gonna be an animal attacking off the dribble. he's real impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxjX1E-d_o

hes a slightly old rookie, only the second non freshman taken, but a guy who can come in a do this a couple months into the season falling to the bottom of the lottery is pretty wild, guess thats the draft 4 u

the zach collins and luke kennard picks are looking really really bad aren't they

yuuup everyone was mystified by collins going there at the time tbf, it was understood that we had grown beyond awarding guys fora couple good tourney games

weirder still blazers packaged two lower picks they could have used on Collins to trade up to take him, truly boggling still

pelton was a big collins guy predraft:

5. Zach Collins

Gonzaga
Center
Big Board: No. 9
Stats: No. 5

Consensus: 2.1 WARP

Despite coming off the bench on a deep, experienced Gonzaga team that lost in the national championship game, Collins rated as the best Zag on a per-minute basis.

He's a high-percentage finisher with good touch at the free throw line. The limited need for traditional bigs hurts Collins, but he's skilled enough that he might be able to play both frontcourt spots in the pros.

kennard over mitchell was plainly stupid at the time

he will probably never be as good as mitchell is rn

no

at best he'll be like.... jodie meeks? idk. his scoring was so effortful at duke that i couldn't believe people (like on TV) were trotting out the "he's not just another white 3 point shooter!" line about him

just an insanely shortsighted pick, like "we've got our team so we'll take a guy who may at his best be as useful as malcolm brogdon in the lottery"

and thats why u dont let coaches gm