... I have no idea how this conclusion is reached. If you are a star player, and your team picks up another star, do you become a weaker player? ... It's...
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McKibbin, Stuart
thefiend42
Aug 23, 2002 5:16 pm
Yeah. Perhaps a mulatto caste system should be utilized to keep it all straight. AllStar Quadroons. AllStar Octoroons. (Heavy sarcasm) I would suggest this...
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harlanzo
Aug 23, 2002 9:09 pm
So how dou you meaningfully interpret turnovers? I agree that context is important (ie Rodman's low turnovers do not indicate his ballhandling ability). Can...
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HoopStudies
Aug 23, 2002 9:22 pm
... Muggsy ... Quick comment: There was a study going around when I was in high school showing that studying more hours was not correlated with good grades in...
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bchaikin@...
Aug 23, 2002 10:17 pm
In a message dated 8/23/02 5:09:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, harlanzo@... writes: ".....can you estimate touches per game and then divide turnovers into...
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alleyoop2
Aug 24, 2002 4:09 am
Pretty much echoes my thoughts -- turnover rates are only meaningful if you include all possessions and not just the ones that end in assists... One other...
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Michael K. Tamada
tamada2
Aug 24, 2002 4:27 am
... It's a good point, although how many such offensive fouls do these players commit, compared to their ballhandling turnovers? Is it enough to make a ...
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doc319
Aug 24, 2002 5:01 am
I didn't mean to offend anyone by my question. I'm simply asking what methodology is being used to classify players by race. Isn't standard methodology an...
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bchaikin@...
Aug 24, 2002 5:05 am
In a message dated 8/24/02 12:28:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tamada@... ... well then just what is your definition of "...a good ballhandler..."? just ...
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doc319
Aug 24, 2002 5:29 am
Just to make my question perfectly clear: in Mike's posting referring to "good," "whitAm," and "black" players (his categories, not mine), on what basis is a...
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mikel_ind
Aug 24, 2002 7:08 am
I'm having terrible luck with my replies disappearing, so I apologize if this is a repeat of myself. doc319 is entirely correct: the 'missing' white players...
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mikel_ind
Aug 24, 2002 1:45 pm
I am still unclear about estimating 'touches'. Is this a term for all possessions 'used'? i.e., a touch which results in a shot attempt, foul, turnover, or...
... Nah, it's that if you're a, say, 17 and 9 player, right on the cusp of "stardom", but you're in a relatively weak league in terms of talent, an infusion of...
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John W. Craven
Johnny_Slick
Aug 24, 2002 10:21 pm
... I think that the primary thing we should be looking at is not so much race but background. Jason Williams, for example, has quite a bit more in common with...
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John W. Craven
Johnny_Slick
Aug 24, 2002 10:32 pm
... And then there's the question of especially tough "touches," the type that Allen Iverson seems to get a lot of. I'm talking about the situations where a...
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harlanzo
Aug 25, 2002 8:24 pm
... much race but background. Jason Williams, for example, has quite a bit more in common with Gary Payton (in terms of his upbringing) than John Stockton....
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dlirag
Aug 26, 2002 1:58 pm
... balance ... real ... That's what Bob Chaikin does in his program. He defines touches per game as the sum of FGA, TO, the number of passes the player makes,...
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Michael K. Tamada
tamada2
Aug 26, 2002 7:31 pm
... minority in the NBA to make a USA vs. the World contest on All-Star Weekend a compelling battle. It's already happened in the NHL, but I have an inkling...
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HoopStudies
Aug 30, 2002 7:27 am
I am working on a research project right now to assess the value of timeouts. Right now, the specific focus is whether a timeout helps the offense or the...
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Michael K. Tamada
tamada2
Aug 30, 2002 8:22 am
... Presumably you'll throw out the timeouts called to try to "ice" the free throw shooter... although I suppose a slightly interesting sub-project would be to...
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Chuck Frizzell
cwfrizzell
Aug 30, 2002 7:38 pm
My initial impression is offenses are more successful. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find less disciplined offenses (young, turnover prone, etc) to be...
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thedawgsareout
Aug 30, 2002 9:27 pm
... I think it would be very nice to have a statistical idea of the value of momentum timeouts. It might be difficult to pick out a specific set of criteria to...
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HoopStudies
Aug 30, 2002 9:51 pm
... In our preliminary look, this is the only thing that was close to being statistically significant. Whereas our look at offensive success seemed to show...
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mikel_ind
Aug 30, 2002 11:47 pm
... What do we know about runs of momentum? At the professional level, where panic is less frequent, and coaches get paid big bucks, there will still be some...
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HoopStudies
Aug 31, 2002 1:23 am
... to ... not ... The accumulations do seem to be random, but the perception is real. Coaches definitely call timeouts when there seems to be a run. We're ...
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alleyoop2
Sep 2, 2002 4:20 pm
Dean-- Great idea for a study. A couple random thoughts: -- Substitution. Teams can not only call a play or change defenses during timeouts, they can also...
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mikel_ind
Sep 4, 2002 1:51 am
Here's a study of how each state has contributed NBA players, by decade. Rather than list numbers of players, I have listed total minutes played, by state of...
Not quite north, and not quite south, but interesting trends. Per-year NBA minutes of all players hailing from various states. District of Columbia era '50s...
