... Here's some stuff I dug up. I din't format anything, so I hope it all is at least semi-comprehensible. Buffalo: Records Before Dantley ('75-76): 46-36 With...
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msg_53@...
May 2, 2001 9:56 pm
Good work, Ed! Scanning the Dantley history line does show some things. For one, Dantley seems to raise the team shooting pct., which is not surprising, and...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 3, 2001 1:34 am
... Thanks, Ed. Exactly what I was curious about. It can be difficult to evaluate players this way because players who are traded often are traded for...
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harlanzo@...
May 3, 2001 10:15 pm
Just wondering if Bernard King comes up any differently than Dantley. They are very similar players--with the exception that King wasn't really considered...
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bchaikin@...
May 4, 2001 8:45 pm
not quite sure on the topic of this dantley discussion, other than dean asking early about whether he belonged in the HOF, but on the comment "...your numbers...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 5, 2001 3:52 pm
... impact team ... statement... What we didn't see were substantial increases in team wins when Dantley arrived, nor did we see substantial decreases in team...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 5, 2001 4:35 pm
Payton won election to the first team All-D for the 8th straight year. Does he deserve it? Some numbers. Below are shown several stats SteeleRank: Doug...
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msg_53@...
May 8, 2001 12:04 pm
... Good question, Dean; I have long thought that this defensive award is a mixed bag of bones thrown to players who seem to deserve "something" for their...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 9, 2001 2:28 pm
... position? Doug's method looks at matchups, yes. Mine doesn't. The methods have different strengths and weaknesses. That's why I look at them both. A key...
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bchaikin@...
May 9, 2001 8:51 pm
i agree with dean, the +/- "ratio" (as "they" call it) is in my opinion useless. yet a number of nba teams use it (IBM "data mining" techniques extract most of...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 10, 2001 6:49 pm
Is there anything beyond my selective memory that suggests that Lenny Wilkens teams give up some big scoring games to people? Last night was AI getting 54....
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 12, 2001 6:22 am
I scored the defense of this game extensively tonight to point out some of the difficulty in evaluating defense and to get some opinions on how to best handle...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 15, 2001 12:02 am
I looked at the closeout game and felt like Christie got scorched. Bryant just killed him, unlike in Game 3, when it was Jackson who got beat by Bryant. The...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 19, 2001 5:38 pm
(It took me a while. I've been traveling and will be doing so a lot in the next 3 weeks.) Several obvious things in this game: - Dallas had a hard time...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 22, 2001 12:39 am
(Quick G 1 notes before G 2) The Lakers did force the Spurs to shoot a lot from the outside, despite the supposed improvement out there this year. Robinson...
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msg_53@...
May 23, 2001 11:24 am
... despite ... hesitant ... Bryant did ... Not sure ... The Spurs' outside shooting is killing them. The lack thereof, I should say. Duncan is more than...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 23, 2001 3:03 pm
Some notes - Ervin Johnson was hailed as the hero in my local paper for his defense. That doesn't happen much. I do generally consider him decent defensively,...
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harlanzo@...
May 23, 2001 10:42 pm
I was watching the ESPN classic Phoenix-Boston finals of 76 with a buddy. We both could not help but notice how weak the defense looked. Have you scored any...
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msg_53@...
May 23, 2001 10:46 pm
... defense. ... defensively, ... post. ... the most ... a lot ... lot of ... Ervin Johnson has been bad, as in good ... horrible ... back and ... I didn't...
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msg_53@...
May 23, 2001 10:56 pm
... scoring ... Since ESPN classic has been running, I hear the same thing repeatedly: in the '70s, a 15-foot shot was always open. Maybe you had to take an...
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bchaikin@...
May 23, 2001 11:48 pm
if you watch a game from the 1970s, early 1980s, and even the 1960s (i have a few on tape, including playoff games), you don't - in my opinion - see anywhere...
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Dean Oliver
deano@...
May 24, 2001 5:34 am
... scoring ... I think I had a defensive epiphany tonight. "Epiphany"; may be strong. I'll fill you in later. Damn, I'm obsessed. WRT old games, I don't get...
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deanlav@...
May 24, 2001 2:43 pm
I get ESPN Classic. If you'd like I'll try to score some. Do you have a step-by-step guide as to how to do it? Dean L ... From: Dean Oliver...
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msg_53@...
May 25, 2001 3:44 am
... . i believe the league is ... prevent a zone ... making the game ... I see it the same way as Bob. Allowing even more defense, and forcing more on the...
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msg_53@...
May 25, 2001 3:55 am
... I would definitely like to see ... more ... I don't like the idea of ejecting players, except in desperation. If a star player or 2, or 3, are gone, the...
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msg_53@...
May 25, 2001 4:10 am
Thanks, yahoo. I correct an earlier post; McKie is having his 2nd great playoffs. His numbers for his 3 Philadelphia seasons: Pct. Sco. Reb. Ast. Total 1999...
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Andy Finkelstein
andyf@...
May 25, 2001 6:34 am
If you push the shot clock to 30 seconds, I would think that the games would be even *lower* scoring than they are now! I have always felt that if the league...
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Ed Weiland
weiland1029@...
May 26, 2001 12:10 pm
The Lakers didn't have a historic regular season in either W-L record or point differential. But they might be on their way to an unprecedented 15-0 sweep ...
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msg_53@...
May 27, 2001 1:42 am
The 1989 Lakers were 11-0 going to the Finals, but they got swept there by Detroit. Has anyone else even gone 11-0 in their conference? ( or anything-and-0...
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Ed Weiland
weiland1029@...
May 27, 2001 4:33 pm
... The '89 Lakers are the only team to sweep their way through 11 playoff games. Back when the playoffs consisted of not so many games there were these teams ...
