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2014-15 Regular Season Thread

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If they don't have Wade, we should handle them fairly easily.
 
Things I learned Tuesday.

1. Dwyane Wade won't be back until after the all-star break, if that. He won't be playing against us Wednesday.

2. James Harden is the default MVP.

He has an 120 Ortg and 102 Drtg. LeBron's best statistical season with Ortg and Drtg was 2008-2009 with 122 and 99, respectively.

3. Mike Dunleavy is back, Chicago has won their last three, and we are their next opponent.
 
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So, Swaggy P is afraid of dolphins :chuckle:.
 
I love Sir Charles. He just doesn't give a F*CK.

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Barkley offered up the previous championship models of the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls-- with the pairings of Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen -- and the current core of the San Antonio Spurs, with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard, as evidence that using statistics was not a sound basis for building a winning NBA team.

"They say that same crap in baseball, and they put these little lightweight teams together and they never win," Barkley said. "They're always competitive to a certain degree and they don't win. It's the same thing in the NBA."

The Rockets' statistics are a mixed bag. They stand seventh in the NBA in points per game with 103.3 and 15th in points per game allowed at 99.6. Among their ESPN.com Hollinger Stats rankings, they are third in pace factor, 12th in offensive efficiency and seventh in defensive efficiency.

"The Rockets sucked for a long time, so they went out and paid James Harden a lot of money; they got better," Barkley said on the TNT postgame broadcast. "Then they went out and got Dwight Howard; they got better. ...

"The NBA is about talent," Barkley continued. "All these guys who run these organizations who talk about analytics, they have one thing in common -- they're a bunch of guys who have never played the game, and they never got the girls in high school, and they just want to get in the game."

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That is seriously ICE COLD. Tell it, Charles!
 
The problem with Chuck's argument is that the Rockets went out and got James Harden primarily because of his great advanced metrics.
 
SteelSmack said:
Because you have a wide open lane to the hoop but picked up your dribble?
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Ah. I sees it now. So, for THAT to be called a shot, it doesn't have to hit the rim, but in order to reset the 24-second clock, it DOES have to hit the rim? Why the discrepancy in the rule?
 
KilgoreTrout said:
Ah. I sees it now. So, for THAT to be called a shot, it doesn't have to hit the rim, but in order to reset the 24-second clock, it DOES have to hit the rim? Why the discrepancy in the rule?
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From a Q&A from 2009 with Bernie Fryer:
Are you allowed to throw the ball off the backboard, grab your own rebound and dunk it without landing? -- Blaise Bernie's answer: Yes. Under the traveling rule, a player who attempts a shot or pass may not be the first to touch the ball unless it touches the backboard, rim or another player. Therefore, a player can intentionally pass the ball to himself off the backboard or rim.
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So one can pass to yourself without it being considered a shot, I guess that's why. I'd also argue that it'd be too easy to reset a shot clock indefiitely if you could reset it just by hitting the backboard.
 
IIRC in fiba the referee has to judge weather it was an attempted shot or a deliberate pass off the board. The old timmy duncan move would never wash in europe
 
Anyone got a link to Kobe's NBATV interview from earlier tonight?
 
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