Official Around the NBA Thread: December 2022

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  3. Merry Christmas!

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  6. Fishing

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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    They don't matter. Nice try though. :)
     
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    No one's laughing. Give it a rest.
     
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    NOLA needs to trade Zion and Ingram
     
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    Eh. It's only December. They'll understand soon enough. :)

    Lol
     
    Strenuus, Dec 22, 2022
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    Bruh.
     
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    Nice analysis, but only half the story. At best you've shown that early success is NECESSARY for overall success, but you haven't shown that it's SUFFICIENT. To do that you'd need to find all the teams that had early winning records and show their final record. We're obviously not going to win a title, so that's more relevant to us. Here's betting there's a ton of teams that started hot and cratered.
     
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    Not really.
    It shows that every team that won a championship in the last 10 years started well and ended well.
    Nothing more. Nothing less. Putting a "Cratered" spin on it doesn't matter whatsoever.
     
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    Sure. If you want to completely change the point. My analysis is complete. It matters not how many teams start hot and end cold.
    The more apt cross analysis would be finding teams that started poorly and then ended hot enough to win it all.
    i couldn't find one in the last decade. Not even a barely .500 start to then win it all.

    The floating opinion is that games in November and December don't matter.
    I think i have sufficiently proven that to win it all, they absolutely matter.
    The rest about other teams that start hot and fail is just semantics. They will always exist as well.
    However, find me a team that started out 10-15 or 20-20 and won it all. That would be valid rebuttal. If it has happened its extremely rare and likely in a different era of basketball.

    The notion early games don't matter and we can get hot late and win it all, is mostly a pipe dream. History shows it.
     
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    Watford’s courtvision has really impressed @THE HCP
     
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    If the Pelicans get Wemby out of this, I will be PISSED.
     
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    Lakers will probably land either Zach LaVine or DeMar Derozen along with Nikola Vucevic. I could see the Bulls having interest in Westbrook if they blow up the team.
     
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    Probably NOT. The only way they're getting any one of those (and of them I think the least likely is local boy DeRozan) is if they give up both the picks they're jealously guarding. And now Davis is out indefinitely, they're more likely to sit on their hands, I think.
     
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    Let's see a highlights package to illustrate it, then.
    (Still waiting for that Joel Przybilla highlight reel you promised, BTW.)
     
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    Lol lebrons shoe flew off on a game trying possession with 6 seconds left. Lakers lose.
     
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    LeBron may have lost his shoe and that may be the headline but he got Shroder a wide open three despite losing his shoe and it's not on the King that his teammate didn't make the open shot.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Not a Screaming A Smith fan
     
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    I can’t wait for your “it’s only the playoffs” posts.
     
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