You are literally ****ing r****ded. You should probably understand the fundamentals of statistics before pretending to know anything Your remedial ass can use a 30 minute aggregate but we know you’re too stupid to. Imagine ignoring the tone set at the beginning of the game. You can look up the stats for winning after being down at the beginning “since starting doesn’t matter” but you’re too incompetent to do even that.
Remind me, did MVP Shai play that game? Did Steph Curry play both GSW games? Has PHX been nearly as good since Jalen Green began playing? Reed played mostly scrub teams and is getting QB wins credit when he is CJ Stroud and when he gets on the court in the playoffs he will have his New England game.
My advice ..don’t engage with Fishturd, he’s been arguing in bad faith on here for as long as I remember. when someone has such poor understanding of stats you’re only wasting your time
The rockets were depleted half those games themselves you dumb fck. remind me , did KD have his shorts pulled up all the way? Did senguin get enough water during Ramadan? Remember that hair on Sheppards face during that missed shot? again imagine making excuses for a sample size 1/4 of the season most of which the rockets were Missing players leading to Sheppard starting. Y’all are some dumb mofos
Rather than talking about Reed Sheppard I just want to know from @count_dough-ku @DaDakota and the rest why: "overall team record when a player has his name called by the announcer before the game & runs & high 5s them" is the preferred metric rather than Any of the individualized or composite measures we have (trad stats, advanced stats, lineups, net ratings etc) (Unless of course you're cherry picking a spurious correlation so you can fanboy) And btw it ain't just all stats. When Reed gets abused and targeted on D - even a casual like me can see! He & Sengun get picked on again and again. I have seen it! It's great when he's on and hitting shots, but when he plays like he did tonight in crunch time, he's as useless as Eason
Yes, Curry DID play both games at Golden State(and Butler played in the first one too). He however did NOT play at Toyota Center when the Rockets(with Tari starting alongside the Core Four) lost to the G-League Warriors. So if you want to play this game where the Reed wins don't count because other teams were missing players, then shouldn't it be inexcusable for the Rockets to lose at home to Golden State when they don't have Curry, Moody, or Porzingis? And what about all the wins the Rockets had with Reed as a starter when they themselves were shorthanded? They're 3-0 this season without KD and Reed started all of those games. Do those count for anything?
But that would end up meaning Reed's contributions aren't correlated to winning or losing. Almost like whether he starts or comes off the bench doesn't matter. We can't have that! Hey, what are Reed's stats when he comes off the bench vs when he starts?
Phoenix was a perfect example of why the 16-4 stat is total nonsense. Hell, Okogie was 11-1 at one time starting. Probably should’ve just stuck with that lineup all year and then everyone would feel established in their roles. The starting unit with Sheppard has the worst netrtg. ‘That’s really the only stat worth considering if you are using stats to say who starts. I personally wanted Reed to start the rest of the year for development purposes until the winning streak gave me some false hope. Last night’s game wrecked that train, so might as well start Reed the rest of the year and see how he responds.
Nothing is really wrong with the defense. We struggle offensively with the defensive starting lineups like last night. When Reed starts all the starters do well offensively. This year we have to be able to score with the other teams.
This is why I lurked this board for a decade and never post because you keyboard warriors love yapping but not bout that action, and say things you wouldn't say face to face. It's a internet forum you nerd, no need to insult with childish name calling. Anyway, yes we were missing players too but you are an idiot correlating Reed starting with us winning as if that's the only metric that determined the wins, when there were many other factors and the stats show him starting is literally the worst lineup. You get it now Chicken Bro, or do I need to and get a Ouija board and spell it out for you?
I didn’t ask you for your back story, if you can acknowledge it’s an internet board maybe you shouldn’t get so much into your fee fees? your points have been responded to ad nauseum, the fact you don’t actually understand statistics and want to dig into that someone had diarrhea one game or felt icky in a different one to undermine objective data makes you sound ridiculous. I’m not going to waste time responding to things that have already been explained. Just go back to lurking
In the last 11 games we went 9-2. We were ranked 6th in offense and 2 on defense. I’m convinced that a lot of people here don’t really understand the game of basketball.
The greater the sample, the more regression to the mean. We don’t rely on 5/5 FG in a half to come to a verdict regarding someone’s shooting, or a teams record. The more “chances” or sample the closer you get to the truth. So if Okogie with th starters does extend to an overall ratio of 11-1 in an 82 game season it would have been hard to argue against. The reason it didn’t in his instance is because that was very early on and teams just learns to game plan and adjust. With Sheppard it was 10-2 at one point so yes we keep regressing to the mean as well. Nobody is saying the rockets have a 70 win team with him. But a sample size of 1/4 of the season is enough to make key inferences when you look at context , the rockets were one of the worst shooting teams of all time (prior to inserting him as a starter actually). It makes sense that you start a game and give defenses a taste of the spacing they can give up/gamble on from th start and how much of a 3pt threat the opposing team is. to further underscore this the rockets had 18 3PA (iirc) with 4 makes yesterday. They are not beating any team in the east or west with that number. People think that folks are arguing that Sheppard is curry or some schit, but in reality this team is just so starved for a shooter/3pt volume you have to play him. Math/stats are a way to quantify what we can objectify and study, that doesn’t mean we can factor everything such as chemistry, getting off to a good start, spacing etc down to a T
Not just that, they don’t understand sample size while quoting statistics. See my post above but then again you have these people arguing while not even realizing that without Sheppard starting this team was losing to tanking teams left and right (while nitpicking games he won for the team) I blame the Houston education system, as much I love the city. Other fandoms don’t have such a collectively clueless cohort
This is a poo poo platter, No Shai, no Ant, no Giannis, no Deni. We know his weaknesses, we don’t get to see practices and how difficult it is for our players to score on Reed 1v1, Ime does. We can either assume he hates him or assume it’s not going well. He’s been shielded from playing the top Allstar isolation hunters and teams that play that way all season. His minutes sample isn’t comparable to our playoff path vs Luka, Shai, Anthony Edwards, or Jamal Murray. Great game 1 versus Steph, though they’re not the isolation hunting type of team you worry about versus Reed, still by game 2 Draymond was pointing directly at Reed targeting him in actions over and over again. Phoenix with Booker and Green was an outlier big test for Reed and we got trucked at the onset of that game.
In the end, whether Reed starts or not really doesn’t matter as far as the team chances this year. We are Cooked even if we get pass the 1st round. I’m back to giving Reed as much rope as possible to see what we might have going into next year. If he plays absolutely great, then maybe Stone will man up and put a governor on FVV’s playing time or, better yet, trade his ass. Having Reed confident of his place on the roster next year would do wonders for his confidence. I still believe the roster needs an overhaul, but hate for them to take drastic measures while Ime is still coach.
"Nothing is wrong with the defense...we struggle offensively" - Posted the day after the Rockets gave up 136 points to a half strength Timberwolves team and scored 132 themselves on 60% (!!!!) shooting
