Is anyone else waiting for someone in the media to hammer Day for failing to protect his wife with LeBron sprinting toward her? Wouldn't you instinctually cover your wife and take the hit in that spot?
Quoting because the NBA came out today and said Durant's jumper shouldn't have counted because of the illegal screen by Ibaka and that Paul should have been given an and 1 on the prior play. I'm sure Doc will now celebrate this moral victory for a team that really needed to win the game.
When has moral victories ever been a part of Doc's persona? I always think of him as the polar opposite of that.
Was being sarcastic. As you said, Doc is probably still flipping out over the call and the league admitting they messed up is only twisting the knife
You have to be competitive too though and the return on Thad doesn't figure to be more than a low first or a future 1st with higher upside but years away. Trading Thad now puts you one more Bropez foot injury away from your team becoming the Sixers which is a significant downside when the upside in the return wouldn't appear to be great. You're probably better off trotting him out there for 30-35 mpg game knowing he's going to give you 16/8 and decent defense while helping you put a somewhat competitive product on the floor.
I don't buy that at all. Teams play better without their best player all the time especially in the first game when players have a greater sense of urgency and opportunity. Talent wins out in this league over time and he's far and away Philly's most talented player......of course the bar is pretty low with that roster.
I agree 1 game alone doesn't really tell us much. But though Okafor may be the most talented guy on the roster or the one with the most potential, but that doesn't mean he is currently the best.
I feel analytics for a 1-28 team (or whatever their record is) where many of the games are blowouts by halftime can't really tell you a whole lot as there is so much noise in them. Half of these games are garbage time with the end of teams benched on the floor......possibly much of the time when Okafor is on the bench making him appear worse than some of his FAR inferior teammates. I'm only guessing on that last part but any of the Sixers numbers have to be taken with a big grain of salt.
I wonder what Kobe's secret to a positive ORPM is. He has a TS% of 44.9%, with more FGA per game than Okafor.
Okafor being awful isn't a hill I'm about to die on, but this is backwards to me. The whole point of analytics is (hopefully) to teach us stuff, not to confirm what we already think. You're free to disregard RPM with respect to Okafor - it's not a perfect stat by any means, but I don't think this is the most solid line of reasoning why.
This is why BPM is useful. Lets you unpack what RPM is "seeing." Apart from FG%, basically every aspect of his game favors Kobe. He's got a decent steals rate (which helps offense as well as defense), he shoots a ton of threes (spacing impact), he has triple the assists and fewer turnovers. Finally, BPM includes a interaction factor of AST%*TRB%, which basically serves to reward out of position stats (boards from a guard, or assists from a big). Okafor gets credit for neither. He's a poor passing, poor rebounding big.
