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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
The Myth of Danger
Every year as the playoffs approach one thing is guaranteed. A team or two always gets marked as “the team no one should want to face.” The teams normally fall into one of two categories. First the young up and coming team that does something better than anyone else in the league. Think the Grizzlies of a few years ago, who excelled at the slowdown grind it out game because of an elite defense. … Continue reading
Game of the Week: Miami Heat at Boston Celtics
Hello again, Hickory High. Sorry I wasn’t around last week. I was in Istanbul. And the first thing I saw when I got out of the airport was a giant poster of Hedo Turkoglu, the Turkish Michael Jordan. Hedo gets a pretty bad rap because we feel he hasn’t reached his potential. There were moments when he was in Orlando when it seemed like he could be a key player on a contender, but … Continue reading
New Look Celtics
Last night the Boston Celtics beat the Denver Nuggets in triple overtime, 118-114, stretching their win streak to seven games since Rajon Rondo went down with a season-ending knee injury. At the time, removing the Celtics’ All-Star point guard seemed like a fatal blow to a team that was already struggling to keep their heads above water. Despite a slew of off-season additions, efficient offense has been just as elusive as ever in Boston. … Continue reading
Do Trade Machines Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The trade deadline is just over two weeks away and it appears that seems major moves could be simmering right below the surface. The Hickory-High staff has been putting the ESPN Trade Machine through the wringer, exploring many of the scenarios. Today we thought we’d have some fun and share a few of the oddities we assembled. Below you’ll find a collection of semi-outlandish trades we’ve cooked up and tried to defend. I made … Continue reading
Fridays With Fenrich: Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads
Fridays With Fenrich is a weekly feature here at Hickory-High, the aggregation of an extended, week-long email conversation on a single basketball theme, between myself and Kris Fenrich of Dancing With Noah. Ian: We’re rapidly approaching the half-way point of this NBA season. What are a few of your favorite moments? Who have you really enjoyed watching? Who makes you change the channel searching for re-runs of the Cosby show? Kris: Favorite Moments – It’s strange, when I think … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
For this week’s study I took a look at how often (and by how much) winning teams lost individual quarters. For the 52 games played this week, the victorious team lost an average of 1.2 quarters per game. This indicates that more winning teams lost at least two quarters than winning teams that won/tied every quarter. In quarters in which the eventual winner was outscored, they were outscored by an average of 4.97 points. … Continue reading
Daily Dribble – November 28th, 2012
Editing Transparently: Last Night’s Numbers is no more and we’re still searching for a daily format that works here at Hickory-High. Matt Cianfrone is trying out this new (sometimes) Daily Dribble thoughts/storify set-up. Let us know what you think, what works and what doesn’t. What would you like to see added? Now, back to Matt: What an ugly night of basketball for the most part, including by my Bucks who got their doors blown off by the … Continue reading
Quick Hitters: The 31st of October 2012
Quick Hitters is a daily, brief, multi-dimensional recap of the previous night’s NBA action. Score: Cavaliers 94 – Wizards 84; Heat 120 – Celtics 107; Mavericks 99 – Lakers 91 Brain: I cannot overstate how much enjoyment I’m going to enjoy watching Jason Terry with the Celtics this season. His recipe of swagger and surly is going to push the intensity of every Heat game to 11. Stat: Anderson Varejao had 12 offensive rebounds. That means … Continue reading
