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Game #3: Toronto Raptors 97 - San Antonio Spurs 101
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Shaolin Fantastic wrote: View PostWhy don't we care about this? If it's one of our best lineups shouldn't we be looking at ways to replicate it or stretch it out over longer periods of the game? Maybe not necessarily with Bebe specifically but there has to be something significant to that.
But hey, if after 20 games or so, we're seeing BeBe in starting lineups that consistently smack teams around with large samples? Absolutely that's a discussion that needs to be had.
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DanH wrote: View PostYeah, Serge catching fire was the main driver for that. That said, I don't much care why the team always destroys the opposition when good BeBe is on the floor, I just hope it keeps up while JV is out.
Hopefully, he's improved this year and at the very least, he should be motivated by not getting that extension and seeing Poeltl leap over him in the rotation.
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Puffer wrote: View PostThere are a number of members on this board who will tell you the team can operate quite well without JV. Just move Serge or Jacob to the center spot. Now we get to find out.
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Fun with super duper small sample sizes!
Most of you probably know that I track each game in terms of the strength of opposition, back to backs and home court advantage, and use that to a) evaluate the team's performance adjusting for those factors and b) use that evaluation to project the rest of the season.
Usually I start that 20 or so games in, so that each team has a decent sample size to get a baseline net rating that describes the actual team rather than just variance in play. This year, to get a jump, I worked backwards from my projections for the season (based on WS, BPM and RPM) to get some dummy ratings for each team, so I can look at the team's performance from day one and evaluate it as we go.
So, in the first two games, the Raptors have posted a +24 and +30 net rating. But, you say, that was against garbage teams. Yes! And adjusting for the garbage teams and for the Raptors' home court advantage in those games, we end up with +15 and +23 net ratings. Which means the team has performed like a 76 win team so far. Yay!
Look forward to that regressing soon, but still, small sample size theatre is nothing if not dramatic.
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Liking the Raps tonight on the road....
Pau Gasol is now officially older than dirt and Aldridge is on the downward curve...Dejounte Murray is yet another Spurs find late in the draft but he isn’t Tony Parker....Mills and Granger are solid players ....and oh yeah...no Leonard tonight...
So in aggregate, the Spurs even with Pop patrolling the sidelines, look beatable.
Raps get the W tonight.There's no such thing as a 2nd round bust.
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Demographic Shift wrote: View PostLiking the Raps tonight on the road....
Pau Gasol is now officially older than dirt and Aldridge is on the downward curve...Dejounte Murray is yet another Spurs find late in the draft but he isn’t Tony Parker....Mills and Granger are solid players ....and oh yeah...no Leonard tonight...
So in aggregate, the Spurs even with Pop patrolling the sidelines, look beatable.
Raps get the W tonight.I relish negativity and disappointment. It is not healthy. Somebody buy me a pony.
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TRex wrote: View PostKawhi and Parker out. Raps should win this game.
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Demographic Shift wrote: View PostLiking the Raps tonight on the road....
Pau Gasol is now officially older than dirt and Aldridge is on the downward curve...Dejounte Murray is yet another Spurs find late in the draft but he isn’t Tony Parker....Mills and Granger are solid players ....and oh yeah...no Leonard tonight...
So in aggregate, the Spurs even with Pop patrolling the sidelines, look beatable.
Raps get the W tonight.
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I'm loving this every-other-day gameday schedule so far this year. It breaks after Friday (no weekend games), then resumes for 6 more games before another two day break.
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No news on a steph curry suspension yet..amir johnson got 1 game for the exact same thing 5 years ago...IMO it should be more, you don't throw things at the referees, especially covered in your saliva. Probably won't be a 2 game suspension but if it was we'd continue our streak of a team not having one of its top dogs vs us9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of Forum
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golden wrote: View PostThe question is how sustainable is "good Bebe"? We got a larger sample size last year and the answer was "not very". But, I'm still a Bebe-liever.
Hopefully, he's improved this year and at the very least, he should be motivated by not getting that extension and seeing Poeltl leap over him in the rotation.
His rim protection can be awesome when he's on, but he really needs toughness, physical to improve his rebounding but the mental toughness to deal with adversity even more so.If we knew half as much about coaching an NBA team as we think, we"d know twice as much as we do.
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