I was never bothered by Rice as he knows the game and had a quirky sense of humor as well. Sure I have had favorites over the years but I have never understood why posters make such a big deal over who the commentators are. Calabro and Hurd are fine with me and Hurd is very well spoken and knows the game and even though a different role he is the Mike Barrett of the two while Calabaro is the Mike Rice of the group with some of his quirky sayings and mistakes. I really don't pay all that much attention to them as they fulfill the need. I watch a lot of games on NBA TV with other teams home broadcasters and trust me, we are better off than many teams.
Calabaro is highly regarded amongst all broadcasters (radio & TV) much like the Shonz. He has one of the better broadcast voices there is in the business too.
You should be commended for the data you pulled together, excellent job. I've read multiple studies that have a much larger sample sizes and in none of them did assists to win% have greater than a 0.5 correlation. Anything under 0.5 correlation is considered "low". I know looking at your data set, it might look like that is even a strong correlation, but it isn't. This took me years to comes to grip with as I always believed more assists HAD to be better. The reality is that more assists had a low correlation and even the assist stat itself does not prove anything about how effective an offense is. Roster make-up /the ability to have players who can convert on a pass also matters. Having said that, there is a clear correlation with having multiple all-stars and winning an NBA championship. You are right that Dame would not be the best player on all most any championship team. Detroit myabe (you listed the best players for the 1990 Pistons by mistake). This goes back to the real issue that it appear we agree on, Olshey has not given Stotts or Dame a championship roster, he's given him a 1st-2nd round roster (when healthly) and in some years (2015-16) not even that.
@wizenheimer ...nice data on the assist/NBA Champs. It's not an accident that ball movement and player movement creates better shots and good players make easier opportunities. I would submit last years Raptors team only had 1 HoF'er as well to go along with LeBron's team in CLE. But yes, it usually takes more talent.
I became a big Simons fan over a year ago, but even I think he's getting the right number of minutes this season, and certainly shouldn't start ahead of McCollum (who I wanted traded years ago). (After a couple of years of arguing with fanboys about Olshey, Stotts, McCollum, Leonard, etc., I give up, then years later you finally agree with me, but I'm too tired to claim ownership. The latest is that I'm saying that you overvalue Collins.)
Starting McCollum from bench would make our bench better I don't know what's the point of playing stuff we play rite now. If we gonna lose to Suns, it's better to do it with young guys to develop them.
The ISO play was on full display last night. It’s one thing to lose every night, but it’s another thing to lose while playing an ugly style of basketball.
Yet it was so non-Iso early on when we built a big lead. They reverted back to it when things started to get close. All those open shots off of ball movement quickly disappeared. How odd...
