making a superteam via trades is way more legit than via free agency tho
the core seven of the current team: 2 by trade, 2 by free agency, 3 by draft. what's the legitimacy quotient on that?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
5:2 legitimacy ratio, pretty good, and if they trade for brow who wld be their best player then its even better, prob hayward wld be in that trade too so then horf wld be the only free agent signing left, also most ppl werent even that impressed by picking him up but now theyre starting to appreciate the genius of horf, overall a pretty legit team, way more so than yr warriors or heat and so forth
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
lmao
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
I like the legitimacy ratio
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
its one of the most innovative stats
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
we need a stat that measures a team's legitimacy ratio against a replacement level legitimacy ratio, weighted for market size, previous championships won, and number of times your gm has been fleeced by danny ainge.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
2008 celtics (the proto super team) was all homegrown or trades for a perfect legitimacy score of 100
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
hm the warriors have 4/1 ratio as their starting lineup. not bad
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
for the warriors its better to use our adjusted legitimacy ratio metric which takes into account that they added a top 5 player via free agency after putting up the best regular season record ever and blew a 3-1 finals lead, also factors in that the free agent is a lil bitch, the parking lot call will affect the score somewhat too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
long story short our metric shows the warriors sullied pristine legitimacy resulting in a total bummer rating of 100 for the whole league
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
whatever suits your little homered narrative
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
actually its objective math/science
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
gonna be weird when kd joins his bff kyrie after this season
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
i will not allow it/thankfully not really possible
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
congrats to the celtics for winning one title in the last 32 years :)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
wow warriors fans seem kind of sensitive about how they blew up a lovable entertaining home grown team to build a shallow mercenary squad with no chemistry that everyone hates
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
That reminds me of when the Celtics got Kyrie for nothing and still couldn't get past Tristan Thompson and the Cavs.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
kinda a weird reading of that series might want to review "the facts"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
poly otm obv. the celtics were lovable with IT2 then they sold their soul and bad karma has bitten them.
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
yeah, and now they've loaded up with ring chasers like horford and hayward. p embarrassing tbh
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
and now desperate to add brow sheesh.
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
kyrie+horford celtics are cool dunno about hayward
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
no one would say that getting kyrie and horford and then playing all your draft picks is stacking the team
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
THIS is a bad ratio: stevie nicks, mike campbell, neil finn, christine mcvie, mick fleetwood, john mcvie.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
celtics are very nice and chill
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:13 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
warriors fans please understand that this is -- in fact -- the Official Narrative of ILH
― KING OF HOOPS, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
Whatever king of hoops
― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:18 (five years ago) link
i love to look at the espn basketball power index which has the boston celtics at #1 http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/Basketball-Power-Index/espn-nba-basketball-power-index
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
538 which is dumb does not https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-nba-predictions/
btw i cant figure out what the deal is with 538s "full strength" index the celtics are rated way higher in that than they are in "current" but they havent had many injuries? perhaps its account for the fact that both kyrie and gordon are coming off big surgeries idk shit seems too black boxy overfit to be useful
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
yeah I am puzzled by the 538 system too
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
they should just have all the teams play basketball contests against one another to see who's better
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
crazy idea but just might work
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
basketball reference has "simple rating system" u have to sort by the srs column in the standings, top 3 teams are in the east lol https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2019_standings.html
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
i love computer rankings, hate human "power rankings"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
SRS is just point differential adjusted for strength of schedule iirc
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
ya
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
ok also 538s "pure elo" rating is almost exactly the same as their "full strength carmelo"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
yeah i’d go!
― k3vin k., Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
idgi*
i wonder if its not a bug piping the elo ratings into the carmelo full strength i actually didnt check if they were exactly the same
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
gaem notes:
marcus smart is doing special stuff recommend checking him out an utterly disruptive defender and just plays w his head on a swivel always in the game doin stuff and has eliminated a lot of the bad things
timelord is a genuine phenom doesnt really have any idea whats going on out there but will earn minutes this season even once theres a healthy rotation of 3 very playable guys in front of him just on talent, pretty obvs an exceptional shot blocker and prob elite rebounder, needs to "figure it out" but if he does will be an nba man for a long time
c's prob didnt deserve to win tonight got a ton of soft calls down the stretch, wall was killing them then went down like his achilles exploded then was back in the game next stoppage lol prob a complaint re the refs and maybe life in general
the bad celtics offense was in the house tonight its really true that if the ball doesnt hit the paint they get some ok looks that they just cant hit
underreported aspect of brother brad switching up the offense hes leaving guys in for really long stretches especially in the 1st half like kyries played the 1st 11mins of the game then sat for seven then played the last 6
also really emphasizing having multiple playmakers in at the same time like wanamaker got extended burn tonight and they went w kyrie-smart-rozier down the stretch, partially that was cause they were missing horf-brown-hayward tonight but still
i like wave papi hes a young knucklehead but maybe rounding into one of those type of guys every team wants, also they did a scoreboard segment with him and he predicted the next fashion trends are man purses and short shorts
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
kyrie did stuff w the big game in the balance
UNTUCKED KYRIE UNLEASHED pic.twitter.com/w272o1ogCn— Synchrowob (@WorldWideWob) December 13, 2018
Good defense, better Kyrie pic.twitter.com/7X6rImLGy8— Synchrowob (@WorldWideWob) December 13, 2018
Kyrie Swerving with game on the line pic.twitter.com/h9q3d1UNgU— Synchrowob (@WorldWideWob) December 13, 2018
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
the thing that really strikes me about rob williams is how quick his jumps are; i was comparing to some mildly critical wendell carter vids that were going around and carter takes for-f'n-ever to get in the air but rob can just spring up whenever he wants. that's how he got those sick blocks on a.d., he can actually wait to get a sense of the move before jumping and still be there on time.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
hes extremely fluid and effortless and runs from end to end like hes barefoot in a field of daisies
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
kyrie is a god
― k3vin k., Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
hes a very special guy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
that one possession where wall was all getting ready to d up and kyrie just walked into a 30-footer
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:17 (five years ago) link
yeah he was checking the D behind him and kyrie just pulled up lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
*#2 of those 3 tweets