Comments on: Who Ruled the Top Defenses in 2010? (Part II) http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Anon http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-22603 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:56:49 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-22603 "The Heat won 47 games. The Celtics won 50 games. And it was a 4-5 seed matchup. I do not buy into the "team was horrible" non-sense at all."

Doesn't matter if your team is 82-0. If your team doesn't play well in a particular series, you don't win.

"Did Wade's injury and Pierce's game-winner, have that much of an impact on the Heat player's psyche? Does that not fall on Wade?"

No, because Wade is Wade. He came to play...his teammates did not. And that's not HIS fault.

I see that the casual fan still loves to put an individual's OWN flaws on someone else -- preferably the visible face on the team.

]]> By: Matt http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21884 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:46:07 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21884 Should that not reflect negatively on Wade, though? The Heat won 47 games. The Celtics won 50 games. And it was a 4-5 seed matchup. I do not buy into the "team was horrible" non-sense at all. This is the same team that came close to nearly sweeping the Lakers, save a Kobe game-winner. Did Wade's injury and Pierce's game-winner, have that much of an impact on the Heat player's psyche? Does that not fall on Wade? I just find it very tough to buy into the notion that Wade "Ruled" the Top D when his team only won 1 game. Also, if the Celtics "turned it on", should that reflect positively on Rondo, instead? Just not following the logic.

]]> By: rav http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21883 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:48:07 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21883 @ Matt (31.)

Because, apart from Wade, the team was horrible?

And the Celts turned it on in the playoffs.

]]> By: Matt http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21707 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:00:36 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21707 Still wondering why Miami only won one game.

]]> By: BSK http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21705 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:38:14 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21705 It would be helpful to know how much year-to-year variation is typical. Should we assume that there is something appreciably different about Kobe this year than last because of the change or is such a change "normal"?

]]> By: Neil Paine http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21684 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:25:16 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21684 Re #28 - Here are Kobe's numbers for the playoffs alone:

Vs. Type of D MP ORtg %Pos OSPM
Top 10 508.9 103.9 33.8 4.72
Above-Avg 673.2 108.0 33.4 5.40
Below-Avg/Bottom 10 249.5 135.4 31.0 14.40

(Note: I combined below-avg and bottom 10 in 1 row because L.A. only played one below-avg defense, Phoenix, and they happened to be in the bottom 10 as well)

So Kobe's performance vs. good defenses was better (really, the overall performance was better, lending credence to the injury theory), though he still did the overwhelming majority of his damage against the Suns, the 8th-worst defensive team in the league.

]]> By: Adarsh http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21680 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21680 Bryant's play isn't surprising at all... at least not in the regular season. In the playoffs, he was his usual self... definitely wouldn't look too much into a stat that ranks Westbrook or Baron over him.

Neil, how do the Boston Celtics perform vs Top 5 defenses? Curious to know why Rondo isn't on any of these lists.

]]> By: Austin Scott http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21678 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:42:24 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21678 How about Maggette and Brockman. Milwaukee really geared up this offseason, and Illyasova made his list a few times too. I think that the Bucks are getting ready to play some of the toughest EC defenses, and i think that they have a legit chance to make some noise next season and potentially upset one of the three favorite east teams.

]]> By: Anon http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21674 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:56:16 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21674 When he is healthy, CP3 is one of the 3 players (along with Bron and Wade) that own the league offensively. Ditto with Manu.

Bosh is a surprise, but his game has always been underrated on that end. If he could just bring anything on defense he would be a top 5 overall player easily.

Gasol simply continues to make a name for himself as well. He - not Kobe, as poster #9 went off on a hilarious rant about - was the man against the league's better defenses in 2010 for LA and is perhaps the best offensive big in the game.

I think that later down the road, Dirk will get the props he deserves as an ALL-TIME great. Year after year, he performs against everybody, regular season and playoffs. And I don't wanna hear it from the "rings people" - can't fault him for the '06 Finals where Wade played well, the Heat defense played JUST as well and the Mavs arguably got shafted by the refs. And this season he owned the Spurs in the playoffs, except he had no help elsewhere.

Maybe Dirk and CP3 need to get together on the same team.

]]> By: JTaylor21 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079&cpage=1#comment-21658 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:40:58 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=7079#comment-21658 Excellent job, huevonkiller. Just goes to show that bron really does step his game up when the stakes are higher. He's second alltime in Playoffs PPG right behind guess who MJ.

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