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UCLA is the offense that the Utah Jazz runs. It's the play where a big man is placed at the high post, the PG passes to the wing, and the cuts to...
And which parts of the game are those? Are you trying to argue in favor of ppg or FG% (some of the alternatives proposed in this thread) which...
By "account," I mean "remove it as a factor and adjust the numbers so that all teams can be evaluated on an even playing field." By removing pace...
However, I still stand by the position that using ppg on one side of the court (to measure either offensive or defensive performance) is pretty bad.
Thinking about things and looking at the numbers more, I may have been going a bit far when I said point differential was "shallow." The pace of...
About which teams made the playoffs, I can say the same thing about points per possession. Team rankings with varioius stats, including...
As an extreme and simplified example (for illustrative purposes), assume the following two games are played (not according to regulation rules and...
Yes, efficiency is better, because it accounts for the pace of the game. You still don't explain how ppg is better. It's shallow because it...
I don't even see how FG% indicates how a team "controls tempo," or how points per possession can't account for your ability to "control tempo"...
This doesn't mean anything, and any attempt to explain how All-Defensive team selections actually mean good defense will lead into circular logic....
Speed is not good for anything unless you're efficient with your possessions (which, at ANY speed, will be equal to your opponents' give or take...
What is your definition of "controlling tempo?" Can you explain how that's supposed to produce a win? In a basketball game, both teams have...
This doesn't make sense. Shooting is included in defensive efficiency, along with many other things that FG% doesn't account for, such as...
FG% is better than ppg as a measure of defense, since it isn't completely skewed by game pace. But it still doesn't go all the way, since it...
Blaming the better players is a stupid sports cliche (I'm sure the T-Wolves and Lakers are mediocre because of KG and Kobe :rolleyes: ) and isn't...
Another "blame the good players for the loss" fallacy. :rolleyes: By "3rd best player" most people probably really mean "3rd scorer." Well...
Hell no. T-Mac's back isn't going to hold up forever, if you can even say it's holding up for now. Don't overreact over a couple losses, the...
Oh, the joys of Wikipedia. The Encyclopedia that anyone can write crap into. Blatant vandalism (editing George W. Bush articles into "He's a...
Obviously the voters in the media won't be using PER. But people on this forum know about it, and besides, the logic behind PER (that you should...
For everyone who keeps saying that Dirk isn't putting up big numbers this season, did you even take into consideration his efficiency and the pace...
