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Shot Selection Round-Up: Part 1
Shot selection and specifically shot locations have become a larger and larger part of the basketball conversation. It’s a topic of great personal interest to me and I’ve written quite a bit about it this season. To add an easily comparably quantitative element to the conversation, I also developed Expected Points Per Shot (XPPS). This metric is based on the expected value of shots from different locations and boils the quality of a player’s … Continue reading
2013 NBA Anti-Awards!
It’s time again for The NBA Anti-Awards! These awards (playfully) recognize some of the most miserable and discouraging statistical achievements in basketball. The basketball analytics movement has been evolving and using visual and graphic representations to communicate data has become more and more important. I tried to add some of those visual components to the final awards this season, really emphasizing the ugliness of the numbers. This is also the 3rd season in which … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Los Angeles Clippers at Denver Nuggets
The Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers are the cream of the league at this point. There is a mix of teams behind them who are just outside of that elite group. Denver might be the best of those non-elite teams. The Nuggets have top-five offense and are among the fastest teams in the league. On Thursday, they will test how close they are to the upper echelon … Continue reading
2013 NBA Anti-Awards: Mid-Season Review
Rolling into the All-Star break of this wild season it’s time to check in on the favorites for The NBA Anti-Awards. These awards (playfully) recognize some of the most miserable and discouraging achievements in basketball. Check the archives to view past winners, and continue the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag, #AntiAwards. Things are far from settled, but here’s how they stand right now: _____ The Shawn Bradley Award – This award goes to the … 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
Fantasy Basketball with the Fantasy Nomad
There is no rest for the Fantasy Nomad or the good people over at RotoInfo. The fantasy season never ends and they work tirelessly to keep the best fantasy basketball content coming on a regular basis. This weekend, I was invited to join Michael Pichan (@FantasyNomad) on his podcast, and we discussed the good, the bad, and the ugly approaching the quarter mark in the NBA season. Wondering what to do with Dwight Howard and … Continue reading
Five Lineups I’m Dying To Watch
The regular season is just a day and a half away, but the remaining hours will feel mightily stretched by the weight of anticipation. With all the gifts that meaningful basketball games bring, one of the chief joys is getting to watch coaches play with all the shiny new toys their GM’s acquired over the summer. All sorts of combinations are in play, and here are few five-man units I can’t wait to watch. … 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
Off-Season Help Guide: Cleveland Cavaliers
Matt Cianfrone looks at where the Cavaliers might turn for help this off-season. Continue reading
Off-Season Help Guide: Washington Wizards
Matt Cianfrone looks at where the Wizards might look for help this off-season. Continue reading
