I agree with what you're saying here for the most part, and I think the league has done a better job of cleaning up the star call/big market officiating bias since the Tim Donahue scandal. Most the bad calls even out in the end. Usually the refs will give a team a make-up call if they knew they screwed up (it happened to Dame the other night). That said, in the case of the Golden State game earlier this year, that game was stolen from us. With a few seconds left we had the lead and the ball was knocked out of bounds. The call on the floor was Blazer ball. They reviewed it for about 10 minutes and none of the angles showed "conclusive" evidence that it went off the Blazers, yet they still overturned the call on the court and gave it to Golden State. Thompson hits a three for the lead, we fumbled the last possession, game over. Yeah you could say we still had a shot but it shouldn't have come to that. We were robbed by the refs flat out. It still baffles me why they overturned the call on the court. We should be 16-3 right now and leading the west.
http://www.82games.com/1415/1415POR3.HTM On this stat page, none of our team stats have a net negative... Who wouldn't be happy with this?!?!
I like the won-lost profiles. It says we're 6-2 vs "good" opponents. Compare that to 2-1 for GS, 2-2 for HOU, 4-1 for MEM, 2-1 for DAL, 2-1 for LAC, and 3-3 for PHX. Only current western playoff team with a better record is SAS at 6-1. I don't completely understand how 82 games does these rankings, but I'm guessing our 2 losses to good teams have been GS and MEM. Surprised we've already played 8 games vs "good" teams. Wonder who they are, because we have two losses vs "average" teams as well. I thought those two were SAC and LAC.
http://www.82games.com/1415/1415POR5.HTM According to the data on 82games, our work is at PG and SF, but hardly enough for a concern. We are very dominant at SG and PF. We are above average at the center position. The SG position probably has a boost because Lillard plays SG when blake is in with him. Whatever the case, we are a damn good team! We should be happy!
http://stats.nba.com/league/player/#!/clutch/?sort=PTS&dir=1 According to nbastats, Aldridge is 10th in the league for clutch points.
http://stats.nba.com/league/player/#!/clutch/?sort=REB&dir=1 Joel Freeland is 3rd in the league for "Clutch Rebounds", while Lopez is 12th in clutch rebounds.
Interesting...82 games has our PG PER at 15.6. Dame's is 22.4 and Blakes is at 9.7, so I guess they're saying that Blake plays almost exactly half the game at PG (when he's averaging 22.2mpg). That means that about 8-10 mpg of Dame counts at SG, which (combined with Wes's 16.5) is probably why SG is "dominant". And SF is low b/c both Nic and Crabbe have well-below-average PERs (12.7 and 9.5), but I don't think there's a ton that we're complaining about (other than Nic's shot being eligible to join the Bricklayer's Union).
Yeah I was seeing it the same way. I truly believe Batum will turn things around and that deficiency at SF will won't be much of a factor. We've been holding their SFs to a 12.7 PER, which is pretty damn good, especially since we've played some pretty SF dominant teams
