Comments on: Are You Experienced? http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: MCT http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192&cpage=1#comment-11658 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:43:04 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192#comment-11658 Note that the '77 Kings, who appear on one of the "least experienced" lists, are also here for ABA-related reasons, even though they had not come from the ABA. Of the six players they used with zero games of NBA experience, four had come from the ABA.

]]> By: Jason J http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192&cpage=1#comment-11476 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:38:10 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192#comment-11476 good call, chuck. got my '88 and '89 mixed up. so the only title winners were the '97 bulls, and the old man who may have got them onto this list was parish who very rarely played.

]]> By: Chuck M http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192&cpage=1#comment-11471 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:15:45 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192#comment-11471 Just to clarify, the 1989 Lakers did not win the NBA title. The Pistons beat them in the Finals.

]]> By: Jason J http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192&cpage=1#comment-11451 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:49:56 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192#comment-11451 The two NBA champions on the "experienced" list measured by total games, the 1997 Bulls and 1989 Lakers, were both mature clubs, but they were also made much more mature by their very old centers Kareem and Parish, who had more than twice as many total games as any one else on their respective teams. That said there are some pretty strong teams of old guys out there including a few conference finalists as well.

]]> By: Neil Paine http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192&cpage=1#comment-11449 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:41:14 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192#comment-11449 That's definitely something I'll do as a sequel. This time around, though, I wanted to capture what kind of experience the coach had at his disposal, regardless of whether he was inclined to actually play the guy or not.

]]> By: schtevie http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192&cpage=1#comment-11446 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:03:51 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=3192#comment-11446 Neil,

Wouldn't a better approach to expressing the concept of team experience be to weight individual players' past experience by the reference season's actual minutes played? Having various éminences grises riding the pines might be good for mentoring and all that, but that is a different concept than what I think you are trying to get at.

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