100% NBA STATS 2018/19

the convo between zach lowe & kirk g on zach’s pod was interesting... zach & SVG also had an interesting convo about this subject

SVG made an interesting argument about how what isn’t fun is seeing guys just shooting so many stand still 3s per game bcuz it robs the game of amazing feats of athleticism. not sure i buy it given that the NBA is more demanding on a play to play basis than ever and the collective athleticism of the league is a big part of that but i’ve found myself considering it. personally i just think they need to move the line back... the plays i rly don’t like are like i.e. game 2 of celts/bucks when the entire game flipped bcuz khris middleton was dribbling the ball for 6 seconds and then pulling up and making contested threes. the whole thing felt random and cheap and not fun to watch.

the most interesting bit about the kirk & zach convo was when they were talking about how traditionally the league has always tweaked rules to make the game easier for smaller players but now finally it needs to be balanced back out to make it easier for the bigs

just making the 3 point line uniform and widening the court a bit would be a good first step. would drop the overall 3point % and change gameplay a bit. worth a shot for somewhere to start without changing TOO much.

such as?

instantly making all arenas practice courts and school halls unfit for purpose?

kawhis on a historic heater

Kawhi Leonard is on pace to be the first player with at least a 30 usage rate, a 67 TS% and play at least 30 minutes per game over a postseason. He’s crushing those numbers at 70.4 TS% and a 33.1 usage rate, too. https://t.co/0WAwPbNnT6

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) May 6, 2019

ugh

lol

saw this in an nyt story about the shitshow Lakers, but this is LeBron in a "disaster" year

But in the 55 games that James did play this season, he was pretty good. He averaged 27.4 points, 8.5 rebounds and 8.3 assists a game while shooting 51 percent from the field.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxHnETOh5Gj/

kawhi is crazy

saw this in an nyt story about the shitshow Lakers, but this is LeBron in a "disaster" year

But in the 55 games that James did play this season, he was pretty good. He averaged 27.4 points, 8.5 rebounds and 8.3 assists a game while shooting 51 percent from the field.

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, May 9, 2019 10:06 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lakers wldve made the playoffs if they had stayed at all healthy, and prob lost in the first round, they were 3rd in the west at one point iirc

Beyond health the trade rumors really screwed them. Lebrons standard numbers were good but his defense was suspect all season long.

its true lebron attempting to trade every one of his teammates may have soured them on being his teammate

Lebron didn’t pass the eye test this year

maybe LeBron needs dat kobe

Iggy game six had 5 made threes and 5 steals
only been done ten times in the offs
http://bkref.com/tiny/UKElB

kool tweet:

Luck goes with the talented
Hit locations and made/missed of shots from that location and high entry angles.@BR_NBA @inpredict pic.twitter.com/47YOa9zbh3

— RSPCT (@rspctbasketball) May 13, 2019

https://twitter.com/emersonabrown/status/1127995253665992704?s=20

Kinda interesting

This is the craziest stat I have ever seen... pic.twitter.com/e6061JScMh

— John Keeffer (@john_keeffer) May 27, 2019

garnett was oddly never a huge blocks getter

kobe wasn't a great 3 pt shooter even for his day either

Yah the blocks one is more interesting to me

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bomani-jones-on-the-nba-analytics-and-race

Since it's been a minute... a quick appreciation for Oscar Robertson!

Here's a very fancy Excel chart from the graphics dept showing the Big O's league-wide ranks during the 1960s.

h/t @bball_ref pic.twitter.com/4wWjwA94JD

— Pro Hoops History (@ProHoopsHistory) July 14, 2019

garnett was oddly never a huge blocks getter

These are the Washington Wizards' top scorers over the years: pic.twitter.com/cj97oBkrcT

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) July 21, 2019

belongs in basketblolz

cant tell whats funnier, the decade of immobility or the neural network-esque names in the 70s

john wall doing a leroy jenkins there at the end

The Dallas Mavericks one is inspiring

the juxtaposition of the graph freezing for like 12 years with the dramatic John Carpenter movie soundtrack music is what killed me

I for one have never heard of Kevin Loughery and Phil Chenier

Chenier has called wiz games for a really long time. Loughery I only remember as a coach

The percentage of NBA history that features either Robert Parish or Vince Carter is just staggering, and it's only going to grow as Vinsanity sticks around for a record-setting 22nd year. pic.twitter.com/nutUrhzPa9

— Adam Fromal (@fromal09) August 5, 2019

its cool cos vince carter is exactly the type of player that everyone figured would have a short career and whos game would fall off a cliff as soon as the athleticism was gone. plus he was always injured and seemed like a baby tbf. old vince has atoned for all of young vinces nba shortcomings.

yeah for a while everyone hated him

vince loves to hoop. i always wonder about off-court contributions for guys who play a really long time. i haven't read much about vince lately, but i assume old vince is probably easy to get along with, helpful to the young guys, etc. or he wouldn't have stuck around so long.

I mostly assume Portland signed pau to have a chill older dude with a locker next to whiteside’s

John Collins was on the Lowe pod and he was saying Vince is a great vet

there's no reason for the hawks to have him back this year if he was anything else

the lines are converging

Here's which statistics have been disproportionally "tall" or "short" by season.

Blocks #1 and falling
Assists in last place and rising pic.twitter.com/PG4m51qgtp

— Nathan Walker (@bbstats) August 9, 2019

that’s really cool research, ballers def more well rounded these days

Worst NBA teams by record over the last 20 seasons:

Bulls: 745-879 (.459)
Kings: 743-881 (.458)
Sixers: 741-883 (.456)
Grizzlies: 736-888 (.453)
Hawks: 725-899 (.446)
Nets: 705-919 (.434)
Timberwolves: 699-925 (.430)
Wizards: 690-934 (.425)
Knicks: 672-952 (.414)

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) August 13, 2019

Hawks have got to be the only ones with a 60 win season in the same period

kings surely did during that early 00's run

the knicks thing is really just sad. dolan really is the worst.

you're not kidding.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-26/is-the-knicks-james-dolan-the-worst-owner-in-professional-sports

Checketts had hired Abraham, and once Checketts left there was no buffer between himself and Dolan. The relationship, Abraham says, was cordial: “He owned the company, so I had respect for that.” Once, during a disagreement, Abraham tried to make a point. He told his boss to imagine that the two of them were in a car that Dolan owned. “‘ I want to make a left turn, you want to make a right turn,’ ” he recalls saying. “‘It’s your car. We know we’re going to make a right turn. All I’m asking is for you to explain to me why you want to make a right turn so I understand your thinking.’ ” Dolan, he recalls, said nothing. “He looked at me as if I was speaking Martian. He absolutely could not fathom what I was trying to ask him. And I think people like that, they can’t see how to build an organization or how to build a spirit in an organization. They just don’t have the acumen and the perspective to do it.”

🐦[The percentage of NBA history that features either Robert Parish or Vince Carter is just staggering, and it’s only going to grow as Vinsanity sticks around for a record-setting 22nd year. pic.twitter.com/nutUrhzPa9🕸
— Adam Fromal (@fromal09) August 5, 2019🕸]🐦

marcus is smart

Marcus Smart creates some serious gravity on the court.

He was in the 86th %ile from 3 this past year in gravity.

For all gravity data: https://t.co/WVZyBacKzT pic.twitter.com/O5mL9TL2iY

— BBall Index (@The_BBall_Index) August 16, 2019