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

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lollin at this, he looks so happy and the italics is so forceful

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steph curry has been ballin out of control

I wonder if Ryan Anderson has made a leap as a shooter this year. Really lighting it up so far.

he's been pretty nuts for a while, i've said he's a max guy for years

he is lighting it up so far this year wow

the thing abt anderson is hes not just some big guy who can shoot for % from distance, he gets a ton of quality looks, he has a really fast release and knows how to get open, hes a much more valuable shooter than yr standard already valuable 40% shooting power forward, and now that hes shooting %50+ from three holy shit, i mean its majorly doubtful hell keep it up at that rate but still

tuff day for rudy

― Clay, Sunday, December 1, 2013 9:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*year

― Spottie, Sunday, December 1, 2013 9:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Has anyone heard/watched Raptors home broadcast team do a game? My god the one color analyst (think there are 2, a white guy and a black guy. talking bout the white guy here) was absolutely brutal wrt Rudy the one game I caught. Really going out of his way to criticize Rudy. I've never witnessed a home team broadcaster just continually tear into a guy like that, over and over...

the thing abt anderson is hes not just some big guy who can shoot for % from distance, he gets a ton of quality looks, he has a really fast release and knows how to get open, hes a much more valuable shooter than yr standard already valuable 40% shooting power forward, and now that hes shooting %50+ from three holy shit, i mean its majorly doubtful hell keep it up at that rate but still

― lag∞n, Monday, December 2, 2013 8:30 PM (4 minutes ago)

the guy takes almost 8 threes a game and is hitting over half of them. even at his career average rate, just under 39%, that is hugely, hugely valuable. i was laughing at some of the trades people were kicking around, like the idea that NO would trade him for asik straight up is just absurd

idk asik has a pretty valuable elite skill too

but he's a zero on offense and even if he were anderson's equal overall, which he ain't, why would you break up anderson-davis which is looking like they're going to start dominating the league any time now

i wouldnt break them up cause theyre a good fit, but andersen is pretty one dimensional too, those guys are one dimensional at maybe the two most acceptable things to be one dimensional at shooting and interior D

anderson also rebounds like a monster

a monster what lol burn

asik is a good rebounder

anderson also rebounds like a monster

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 3, 2013 1:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh not really man

his rebounding numbers are down a little this year but i'll bet they'll...rebound, even still his offensive boards, the more important ones, haven't dipped nearly as much

his career TRB% is 110th among active players, let's just keep things in perspective a lil'

he's got a nice 9-0-0-0-0 going tonight btw

I thought ryanderson was just shooting the lights out bc Bargnani was pretending to guard him last night and it was the first time I've seen him play this year but he has indeed been killing it

Whatever the merits of Asik the idea that teams should be falling all over themselves to package up their first or second best players so Dwight can have a shot at the western finals is hilarious

Holy shit that Wes Matthews shot chart

The two weak areas he has only taken five and three shots in respectively

Wtf is going on there in pdx

how good people can shoot now compared with like ten years ago is really crazy

So what you're all saying is this guy Anderson is almost as good as Klay Thompson

my theory is its because they came of age w the college three point line on every court tempting them xp

yeah it's funny when people say players can't shoot like they used to because that's obviously false

i was thinking the other day how it's kind of difficult to compare players across eras because players these days are just so much more efficient, like even after the 3 pointer was introduced no one really used it for a while

Yeah could be that once stats dudes realized the true value of the 3 they started looking for guys who could really bomb it from deep and it's now okay to be purely a 3 specialist

the nba now is basically the imaginary past purists were pining for all those years, great shooting, tons of ball movement, high intensisty defense, no one with cornrows

the other day i was wondering what kinda role allen iverson would have in today's league if he came into it recently, like would he still be AI or what

Hah the stats dudes told udonis to stop it with the cornrows. Makes sense

thing is its not just three point specialists that shoot the three well all sorts of guys can shoot it good to great now

~100 players last season with 35+ 3pt %

Has the average 3p% increased or been increasing in recent years. Come on stat heads

im sure it has along w a huge increase in number of shots taken

in 82-83 mike dunleavy sr led the league in 3 point percentage making 67 of 194 for 35%

--Introduction of Spaulding infusion basketball means that kids on the playground never shot with a flat ball, therefore forcing them to become better shooters

last year there were 30 qualified players who shot 40% or better, ten years earlier there were 12

Damn

Somebody's gonna shoot better than 50% from three through a whole season in the next 5 years

maybe this year

the league average 3P% has plateaued at about 36% for about 15 years (but it was really bad in the 80s and early 90s, like a league full of andre millers bad), but the 3 point rate is what's really shot up recently, more than a quarter of all field goal attempts are 3s now

Actually basketball ref says that's been done. But maybe by someone with 200+ makes?

Somebody's gonna shoot better than 50% from three through a whole season in the next 5 years

― 乒乓, Monday, December 2, 2013 9:12 PM (2 minutes ago)

korver shot like 57% a couple years ago iirc

Yeah and if course there's Steve Kerr. Those were all double digit makes tho. Wonder what the highest % by someone with 200+ makes is

the league average 3P% has plateaued at about 36% for about 15 years (but it was really bad in the 80s and early 90s, like a league full of andre millers bad), but the 3 point rate is what's really shot up recently, more than a quarter of all field goal attempts are 3s now

― k3vin k., Monday, December 2, 2013 9:14 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i guess the improvement in shooting ability has caused harder shots to be taken keeping the average flat, players especially steph curry take shots that no one wouldve dreamed of not that long ago

Steve Kerr did it a few times, including once w/> 200 attempts

also more players have entered the union of 3pt shooters xp self

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Forgot about the god Jason kapono

Not at my computer so can someone run the search for 200+ makes

also more players have entered the union of 3pt shooters xp self

Yeah the emphasis on 3s means a lot of mediocre shooters have been pushed out to the line too I bet

no one fits that criteria u can plainly see by the last result! xp