in these, the waning days of stern: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 1)

also just to correct myself shooting 35% on threes would equate to 1.05 ppp not 1.15, which is still a bit above average

Rudy gay jacks up a ton of threes at 34.4% career, so with a couple good months it would be a winning shot in your eyes

homie that was a lil joke xp

anyone who shoots at least average on 3s should maximize the % of their own shots that are 3s, for someone like hinrich this probably means designing an offense that gets him open so someone can pass to him, for someone like harden who can create on his own this means giving him the green light

if gay could bring his 3p% up above 35% in just a couple of months he would have to shoot like 90% which means yes it'd be a good shot for the time being ;)

anyone who shoots at least average on 3s should maximize the % of their own shots that are 3s, for someone like hinrich this probably means designing an offense that gets him open so someone can pass to him, for someone like harden who can create on his own this means giving him the green light

― k3vin k., Monday, November 25, 2013 4:13 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty sure Hinrich is already open a ton, no need for designing

and the bulls offense is doing so well, maybe i'm crazy

Harden is good enough that you have to respect him enough to come up on him which is what opens up his biggest strength which is of course eurostepping his way to the basket and swinging his arms up and through defenders arms for fouls.

anecdotally I think harden would be a better 3 point shooter if he was taking open spot up 3's--but, and I could be wrong, it seems like a significant portion of his 3 pointers are a higher degree of difficulty (ie, raising up over a defender or 2-3 feet back from the line).

would be interesting to see what the numbers are on pure spot up vs. pull up. He seemingly got a lot of wide open spot up looks in OKC and didn't do particularly well in general.

kinda pumped for Suns/Heat tomorrow.

would be interesting to see what the numbers are on pure spot up vs. pull up. He seemingly got a lot of wide open spot up looks in OKC and didn't do particularly well in general.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, November 25, 2013 12:16 AM (21 minutes ago)

those numbers exist somewhere too, probably also synergy. guys like lowe cite them all the time. i feel like it's not too long until those kinds of stats are more widely available

to me spotting up should only count if there is no dribble at all, and I don't 100% trust synergy on that. they do have spot up numbers tho.

I wish synergy was easier to navigate with players. Team numbers are much better.

do you have synergy? tell us the #s!

well I'm still trying to figure out how to search previous seasons, but in this season basically all his 3 point shooting is the same. Spotups and Pick and rolls both 33.3%

ok last year he was very good in P&R and spot up at 39.5% each, but dreadful in isos at 31%. So I guess he just needs to stop being an idiot and taking dumb 3s.

Strangely enough in OKC he was actually pretty good at iso 3s.

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Miley Cyrus has a great voice! Can sing for real. Just turn down the shananigans a lil and she winning!

― k3vin k., Sunday, November 24, 2013 11:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol great advice thx dad

that is a very funny tweet

lebro knows all about turning down shenanigans

everyone in the world told be to turn down the shenanigans a little and i did and it worked and im winning

'nanigans

mmm

coaach stevens & shelvin

http://instagram.com/p/hFZ9aoslxY/

esp nowadays, how many dudes now can crack 45% even?

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xpost tsrobodo http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/64068/no-more-moreyball-just-basketball

i'm scared to even venture into this new land of dynamic nba box scores, i have work to do today

yes glad i am at the office, will check later

@chicagobulls: Surgery was performed at Rush University Medical Center and Rose is out for the remainder of the season.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

that they didn't state "regular season" is meaningful right

right?

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RIP

injuries are dumb

aaaaaaaaaand the lakers just signed kobe to an extension

https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/405008965404073984/photo/1

the living fuck?

lmfao

they need an intervention

Could his salary break 35 mil a year?

Lol SI cover

remember that thing about the lakers having no money on their books after 2014 except nash or whatever

anyone seen a number yet?

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Kobe Bryants contract will make him the highest paid player in the league the next two seasons

THE LAKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are beautiful just the way you are lakers

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Brad Stevens said he's been mixing in Rajon Rondo into 5-on-0 drills during practice. "So he's ready when the time comes."

http://espn.go.com/nba/salaries

Lololololol I didn't realize Amar'e was the third highest paid player in the league

hopefully the knicks can acquire kobe

this seems off

14 Rudy Gay, SF Toronto Raptors $17,888,932
15 Kevin Durant, SF Oklahoma City Thunder $17,832,627

joe johnson is making 24.87 million in 2015, so it has to be above that

I really want to know if he's still staying above 30 mil