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30 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Season

by TimAllen on Sep 3, 2010 3:51 PM CDT Comment 3 comments

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Sure, this site has talked about some of our new additions like Michael Beasley and Wesley Johnson. We've poured over the stats, the FIBA highlights and the Entourage clips of Kevin Love like they were the Zapruder film. We've looked at Rambis' rotations and David Kahn's many personnel decisions with alternating shock, glee, disappointment and elation.

But what about all of the other things that there are to look forward to this season? Whether we end up with 50 wins or 5 wins, I'm still looking forward to all of the following during this NBA season. In no particular order:

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Wolves Updates 9/3

by SG on Sep 3, 2010 1:44 AM CDT Comment 16 comments

Love scores 4 pts in Team USA win over Tunisia, ESPN on Love's limited playing time for Team USA and more

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Kevin Love's Epic FIBA Stats: It's not just the rebounds.

by John Doe on Sep 2, 2010 2:05 AM CDT Comment 140 comments

Part One: The Stats You'll Expect

Kevin Love leads Team USA in rebounds, with 28 through 4 games. Behind him is Lamar Odom, with 27, and Kevin Durant, with 26. This means Love has the team's highest per game average, 7.0 rebounds/game.

Since he is playing far fewer minutes than either of those two, he has far and away the best rebound percentage on the team (and of anyone in the tournament, for that matter), with 35.4%, compared to 17.1 for Odom, who is next highest on the team.

As far as Love's rebounds are concerned, the most relevant comparison is to his fellow Team USA big men, Lamar Odom and Tyson Chandler.

Love: 8.3 points/game, 7.0 rebounds/game
Chandler: 2.8 points/game, 2.5 rebounds/game
Odom: 5.3 points/game, 6.5 points/game

Give Love a slight advantage versus Odom, and a major one versus Chandler. We should probably also look at minutes played. Love and Chandler have totals of 42 and 38, respectively, so there's no great discrepancy there. But Odom has played a whopping 81 minutes, nearly double the amount of either of the other two. Adjusting Love's averages from 10.5 minutes/game to Odom's 20.25 minutes/game, and they rocket up to 15.9 points and 13.5 rebounds per Odomgame. Holy production!

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