Outlier
by Stop-n-Pop on Feb 18, 2009 10:05 PM CST
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First of all, I'm pretty sure there wasn't a worse way for the Miami Heat to start things out after a big trade than to lose to the Al Jefferson-less Wolves. Secondly, I'm watching the Blazers/Griz game right now and the Blazers' fans are being absolutely classless by booing Darius Miles. Really? Booing a guy who is trying to come back after a devastating knee injury? You stay classy Portland. The Blazers announcers are handling the situation with equal amounts of class; fawning over GM Kevin Pritchard and hoping to catch a shot of him on the phone. Ooooohhh, exciting. On to the Wolves game...
If the Wolves are going to win some games from here on out it will have to be against the odds. Against the Heat, Sebastian Telfair went for a career high in points (30) while shooting 6-10 from distance and 10-10 at the line. While Bassy is my favorite Wolf, he's a .306 career shooter from beyond the arc and he carries a decent 22 FG/FG rate. In other words, his performance against the Heat, while fantastic, is not something you can bank on night in and night out.
Moving on with the outlier theme, the Wolves, the 3rd worst 3 point shooting team in the league, shot .636 from beyond the arc as a whole. It wasn't just the bombs that were falling. The Wolves are also the 3rd worst shooting team in terms of eFG%, at 47.4%. They ended the game against the Heat with a .623 mark. All 5 starters shot 50% or better from the field.
They also out-rebounded Miami by a mind-bending 25 net boards. It was especially brutal on the offensive glass, where the Wolves grabbed 34.4% of their misses compared to 7.3% for the Heat.
Despite all of this, the Wolves found themselves down big early and it took a few clutch shots from Bassy (admittedly against his shooting % odds) late to do the Heat in. The Wolves committed 21 turnovers while forcing only 7.
I don't really have anything else to add. It was an enjoyable win fueled by my favorite player. It's not something I expect on a night-in/night-out basis, but I'll take it. I'd also take a Bassy shirt if they were ever made available by the team, but that's a story for another post.
Until later....I'm going to go watch Darius Miles get booed some more.
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Sweet Linear Regression Model SnP...
Are you a BB, or otherwise trained in the statistical arts?
BTW…the values of the model didn’t make particular sense. Was it just a graphic, or was it supposed to represent an actual stat of our beloved Pups?
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Looks like...
your X axis is Shooting %, and the Y is Wins per 10,000 games or something.
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
I just found the best picture..
….after googling “outlier”. But yes, I do do stats.
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Dude....get a clue
Classless to boo Miles. We aren’t booing because we don’t want him to come back from a knee injury. We are booing him because he represents the last of the jail blazers. We are booing him because he smoked more tree in Portland than Bill Walton ever did. We are booing him because he preferred strip clubs over practice. We are booing him because he was a jackazz! Need I say more?
Of course...
…how silly of me. It’s so much more classy to boo someone who is trying to come back from past transgressions like smoking weed and blowing his chance at the big time than it is for simply booing him because his shredded up knee cost the team a few million under the salary cap. Thanks for putting it in perspective for me.
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Nice try....
However, “past transgressions” aren’t that far in the past. Within the last several months to be precise, not years, as you probably assume. If you want to ascribe all these good intentions to Miles, be my guest. If you want to blindly assume he has repented without knowing anything more than watching ESPN every now and then, go ahead. He is among the worst the NBA has to offer, and if you are confusing him with a cinderella story, you are off, not me.
Again...
..stay classy. Have fun booing every sinner in the NBA. I’m sure you’re consistent on that front. This was about the salary cap and Pritchard man love. Without it, Miles is just another clown who fans don’t even bother to take the time to roundly boo.
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S-n-P: Your favorite player had a great story
and a better quote:
McHale delivered a speech at a team breakfast and told a story about how New Jersey’s Buck Williams played his butt off for lowly New Jersey one night late in the season against McHale’s champion Boston Celtics and so impressed him.
“He calls him a pro, and he asked if we were going to be pros or punks,” Telfair said. “And we decided to be pros.”
If only he could shoot...
…they’d really be on to something. His shooting efficiency is just so bad that I don’t think he’ll ever be able to totally overcome it with solid passing, defense, or game management stats. Shooting 10 threes per game probably isn’t the best way to approach this problem…but when you’re hot, you’re hot. Anywho, I think he’d be much better off focusing on the Tony Parker plan: no threes and get into the lane. He’ll never finish like TP but I do think he can get to the line more than he does while hitting some jumpers inside the lane.
BTW: Last night’s game saw something we have never seen before: a perimeter defender closing out on Bassy. Can you imagine how tough he’d be to guard with his quickness and handle if he could shoot from outside?
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mayn fuck portland
yall got dat kill mayn but on de real fuck yall fo dat shit! i truly believe dat yall never gon win de championship wit de Roy-Oden core cuz uv bad karma on yall mark ass hataz
MAYN HOL UP!
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