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will if by close games you mean within 7 points than his winning percentage is 40% (8 wins and 12 losses). the one caveat is that this record...
Would you agree with me that in the final five minutes of close games that all NBA teams will play their best players/starters? Then consider...
I posted the original post and let me clarify that what I did was laboriously look over the "play by play" for the last 5 minutes of twenty close...
Looking at P.Beverly separately, in close games of under 7 points, he has played in the final five minutes only 4 times. Of those four times...
Once again the data on the OP only looked at the last five minutes of 20 close games. Not the entire game's plus/minus. This was to see how much...
Wow I must apologize but in going over my data set I realized I incorrectly added a couple of values for +/- which made a considerable change...
Here are some quick points in summary: 1) In games with a final score difference of 7 points or less the Rockets have a record of 8 wins and...
You're right a player's points and assists are individual stats but +/- differential shows much more than that. It shows how well a player...
You're right let me be more accurate since I had assumed people read the original post which more clearly shows that ... of 14 close games he's...
in fact, out of 20 close games we've only won 2 close games without Lin and won 6 with him in the final five minutes.
Besides here is the best overall measure to think about. We seem to very often have these bursts of argument about Lin. These arguments always...
I took the stats from 20 games all of which were within 7 points (wins and losses). The largest swing around in the last 5 minutes amongst those...
Doesn't the stats in the first original post show that LIn's defense is not a liability? Wouldn't you say the plus/minus is a good overall measure...
in the final 5 minutes.
The point of the original post was to ask should Lin play the last 5 minutes of games? Well regardless of what you think about him or who you...
Here's another look at the data: In the final 5 minutes of 20 close games of 7 points or less: J Lin averaged: +1.5, 0.33 assists, 3.1...
Some additional stats to consider: In the 20 close games of less than 7 points.... When Lin played the final 5 minutes the Rockets won 30% of...
I was hoping that people would notice how the data shows that some of the comparisons made about Lin and Beverly/Douglas maybe wrong. For...
As an additional note: regarding assists even though Lin has slightly higher assists than the other PGs what is more notable is how low the...
So due to an abundance of free time I decided to try my hand at some number crunching in order to see if we can make an informed decision about...
