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Game of the Week: Los Angeles Lakers at Los Angeles Clippers
Slim pickings this week. For some reason TNT isn’t broadcasting the Thursday games. That leaves the ESPN games on Friday. I think the Bulls-Heat game will be great, but I couldn’t resist picking the Los Angeles-Los Angeles matchup. There has been a lot of talk about how the Nets moving to Brooklyn created a great intra-city rivalry, but the Knicks and the Nets have done battle for a long time, with each side experiencing … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
This week I had a stat request from Jesse Silverman (@JesseBeau), a Cortland intramural champion and defending March Madness king. He wondered if the number of double digit scorers was directly correlated to victories, guessing that winning teams would have more double digit scorers in each game. As it turns out, there was not a considerable difference in the number of players in double figures for winning and losing teams. Over this holiday week … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
This week’s study was suggested by college basketball guru and FSWA (Fantasy Sports Writers Association) gate keeper Perry Missner (@PerryMissner). He is a passionate basketball fan and his suggestion led to some very interesting results. Perry wondered which was more directly correlated to success: quantity or quality when it comes to field goal attempts. I ventured a guess that FG% would be a better predictor, but figured it would be a close study. After … Continue reading
Daily Dribble for December 11,2012
The Daily Dribble is a somtimes-daily feature here at Hickory-High. Matt Cianfrone offers his thoughts on a handful of the previous night’s NBA games, and then turns to Twitter to fill in the gaps. This turned out to be the the second straight night of fun, fun basketball. Cavaliers 100 – Lakers 94 The NBA is better when Kyrie Irving is healthy. The second-year point guard was terrific in his return from a finger injury and his … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
This week I took a look at which statistic had a greater impact on a game’s outcome, transition points or points in the paint. I charted the fast break points and interior points for each of the 49 games this week and broke them into two separate groups: winning and losing teams. I then divided the totals of the losing teams by the number of points scored to determine what percentage of points were … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Los Angeles Clippers at Oklahoma City
There is one NBA game on national television this week. That makes it easy to pick a game of the week, but it’s pretty lame. There are no games, national or otherwise, on Thanksgiving. That is extremely lame. For some reason it’s become traditional to watch football on the best holiday of the year. I don’t want to do that. I realize the NFL is a big bull to fight, but to not even try … Continue reading
The NBA Anti-Anti-Awards
Yesterday, Ian released his annual pre-season picks for the NBA Anti-Awards. Those awards recognize some of the most negative achievements in professional basketball. I wanted to take things in more of a positive direction which is why I created the Anti-Anti-Awards. These awards are the positive, mirror images of the Anti-Awards. Today I’ll introduce you to each award, note the defending champion, and project the 2012-2013 winner. You can get MVP predictions anywhere, but … Continue reading
The Previews Of The Roundtable: Pacific Division
Exhibition games have begun and the regular season is fast approaching. The staff here at Hickory-High is previewing the entire league, taking a stab at answering the big questions, division by division. We’ve already looked at the Northwest and the Atlantic. Today we’re talking Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Suns and Kings in the NBA’s Pacific Division. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. What is the most intriguing storyline in the Pacific Division? Ian Levy - @HickoryHigh - The Lakers. Really, how could it … Continue reading
Making Change
Last week, I laid out a theoretical experiment at Hardwood Paroxysm for the basketball laboratory of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. Prompted by Wade’s somewhat bizarre assessment of his own jumpshot, I put some numeric value to what both he and James accomplish in the paint compared to what they accomplish from the outside. Both players pair incredibly efficient finishing at the basket with a lengthy history of shaky outside shooting, an assessment that was … Continue reading
Offensive Outcomes
A look at the raw Synergy data from my Offensive Geometry post. This is an analysis, with sortable data, of all different individual offensive outcomes from this season. Continue reading
