Posted by Neil Paine on April 17, 2009
Coach: Nate McMillan Record: 54-28 Last NBA Title: 1977 5-Year Playoff Record: Won 0 Series, Lost 0, 0 Finals Championship Odds: 5.0% Key Question: Are these young Blazers ready for the playoffs?
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Posted by Neil Paine on April 6, 2009
This is a piece I've been meaning to write all season, and with the playoffs quickly approaching, it seems like a particularly good time to dive into these numbers... At the beginning of the season, I posed the question: Is the Floor % of a team's go-to guy a good predictor of postseason success? Floor […]
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Posted by Neil Paine on March 16, 2009
TrueHoop's Henry Abbott made the trek to Boston two weekend ago to cover the annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference ("Dorkapalooza," as Bill Simmons lovingly termed it), and here are some things he learned during the trip.
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Posted by Neil Paine on February 23, 2009
Surely most of our readers have heard about "adjusted plus/minus" at some time or another, whether through TrueHoop, Sports Illustrated, the APBRmetrics board, the many articles at 82games on the subject, or even Michael Lewis' article about Shane Battier in last week's New York Times Magazine. But for those of you who aren't familiar with […]
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Posted by Neil Paine on January 7, 2009
Welcome back to the Basketball-Reference blog! I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday, and got to spend quality time with friends and/or family... For our part, we here at BBR would like to wish all of our readers a terrific 2009, and we hope you get a chance to enjoy what should be one of […]
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