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yeah, that's probably the likely cause

but the other possibilities are concerning, or at least mostly concerning. The good news could be anti-bodies lasting longer? The bad news could actually be that a person can contract Covid multiple times

Oh, I would think that there definitely is some reinfection possible. People have different levels of infection; some asymptotic and others severe, and people’s immune systems differ. Nobody knows how long antibodies will last and that may vary from person to person. The experts will let us know once they figure it out in four years or so.
 
No way each team is going to play the same number of games at this rate......

 
those numbers were prior to the Toronto game

and for fuck sakes....maybe we need a SCOTUS ruling on when it's OK to use any numbers from this season....March 11? Of course all the numbers right now are small sample size. Everybody knows that I'm thinking

I was posting those two 'rankings' in response to somebody saying Phoenix is mediocre because they got blown out last night. If you'll notice, I showed just enough of those two rankings to have Portland and Phoenix included
Hey, don't take it personal I always think that until close to the end of the season that SOS is bullshit because it doesn't stop shifting and because it's so totally relative to all variables and no control. If the teams you've played have had a low strength of schedule and won a bunch or vice versa, if teams are playing very inconsistent ball, if team's are still getting their shit together, this season if COVID has had an effect and the list goes. You're now telling me that the team with the worst record that we've faced wasn't counted in that stat. So that stat is saying that playing the 1st, 2nd and 4th team in the West along with the 6th team in the West twice and another team just a loss below .500 to whom we perceivably gave that loss and two games against bad opponents is a weak schedule? That just doesn't sound right.

I think all wins have equal value. I also think that people go to some statistics without really examining them. You're more than welcome to think that it's meaningful, along with any other stat that I (or anyone else) thinks is arbitrary, misleading and/or overvalued and that's no big deal. It's just another conversation in here, another disagreement and for fuck sakes there's a very good possibility that my opinion is bullshit.
 
No High-5s!?!?
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Hey, don't take it personal I always think that until close to the end of the season that SOS is bullshit because it doesn't stop shifting and because it's so totally relative to all variables and no control. If the teams you've played have had a low strength of schedule and won a bunch or vice versa, if teams are playing very inconsistent ball, if team's are still getting their shit together, this season if COVID has had an effect and the list goes. You're now telling me that the team with the worst record that we've faced wasn't counted in that stat. So that stat is saying that playing the 1st, 2nd and 4th team in the West along with the 6th team in the West twice and another team just a loss below .500 to whom we perceivably gave that loss and two games against bad opponents is a weak schedule? That just doesn't sound right.

I think all wins have equal value. I also think that people go to some statistics without really examining them. You're more than welcome to think that it's meaningful, along with any other stat that I (or anyone else) thinks is arbitrary, misleading and/or overvalued and that's no big deal. It's just another conversation in here, another disagreement and for fuck sakes there's a very good possibility that my opinion is bullshit.

I understand, but as I said, I posted those specifically to push back against the assertion that Phoenix is mediocre because they were "blown out" yesterday. No other reason

also, if two teams are both 3-0 and one team has played Minny, the Kings, and Houston; while the other has played the Lakers, Clippers, and Celtics, those 3-0 records aren't the same predictive model.
 

They are offensively and have been IMO for years. The problem is that they are one of the absolute worst defensive starting back courts in the league and have been for years. This year though, they've been extremely special offensively because CJ is playing a more effective and efficient brand of ball.

This whole stretch the strategy has been Dame and CJ having to out score the other team and the other team trying to slow them down. Our opponents knew they could always get a ton of points up on us and that we couldn't stop them. Our strategy has been and still seems to be that our offense will beat other team's combination of offense and defense.
 
I understand, but as I said, I posted those specifically to push back against the assertion that Phoenix is mediocre because they were "blown out" yesterday. No other reason

also, if two teams are both 3-0 and one team has played Minny, the Kings, and Houston; while the other has played the Lakers, Clippers, and Celtics, those 3-0 records aren't the same predictive model.
I need to read better because I thought you had highlighted our last place ranking on SOS and below average ranking on SRS so it was about us not Phoenix and that's my bad. (This is not sarcastic)

You are correct that in the case you are stating there is some disparity between those 3-0 records but I personally don't think the first one can be predictive of anything while the second one may be and it still may not be, that's why it's so arbitrary. That being said, both of those records don't mean shit this season because the Lakers and Clippers have both been blown out by teams with bad records and this season has been wildly inconsistent so far. If I was someone that did put weight into SOS then I would at least wait 20 games in any season to bring it up and maybe a little longer this season.
 

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