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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

i like the cp3 inclusion

lol jk bise, we have had a surfeit of mvp worthy seasons this year

https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/852267149230055424

had no idea
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9TjUDNXcAEYisp.jpg

lol great accompanying photo

Anthony Slater‏Verified account @anthonyVslater

The Warriors offensive rating in JaVale McGee's 739 minutes this season: 121.4. D-rating was 102.7, net rating +18.7.

http://bkref.com/tiny/Gvvpr

jokic cool list alert

I think Javale had really bad on/off numbers for the first couple months so something really started rolling there

I think they love playing with him on the court. gives them that lob option. Opens up their interior passing.

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Vince Carter, Jamal Crawford and Kyle Korver are all tied in career made threes at the end of the season: http://bkref.com/tiny/1foYu

Marjanovic has 2 of the top 75 PER seasons for any player who played over 200 minutes. The only other player on the list with less than 900 minutes is Michael Jordan.

Vince Carter, Jamal Crawford and Kyle Korver are all tied

Unless Carter is ageless as he now seems to be, he is bound to fall back in this race.

dray 19-12-7-5-2

never been done, but here's list of players (mostly system guys) who have done at least x-10-7-3-2 in the offs

http://bkref.com/tiny/tK1Mn

good shot!

lol i hate this stat but also lol anyway

The Thunder now have the three worst clutch time shooters in the NBA all on one team 😬 pic.twitter.com/vTgVxyRuKt

— Hoops Reference (@HoopsReference) September 25, 2017

lmao