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  1. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Exactly why I thought Kanter would help us more than this dude.
     
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    I thought there was a "Melo" thread around here someplace?
     
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    Nah, it's like El Dorado....pure legend
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    That hurts. Exactly why Dame needed to take care of his abs.
     
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    What a bunch of bull stat, but YOUR point is well taken. Efg% data explains a lot: why NY is down on Randle, why Fox's stock has tanked, why people are questioning PG3, why Lillard needed surgery, why the Clips are sucking relative to their expectations....
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    ^^^What a fall off for Randle. Was at .516 last year.
     
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    Hate to admit. You were right.
     
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    I bet that was hard.
     
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    I think eFG is a funky stat. A shooting stat that doesn't account for FT's is incomplete

    but for Dame, there were more factors at work than the big one, which was his injury. Too short an off-season; new ball; new foul rules; new coach; new offense. I think the Billups plan of running Dame off the ball was a bad idea too

    but in terms of efficiency, tracking his TS% over the 3 months of the season prior to his surgery is revealing:

    October: 6 games .463 (18.3 points/game)
    November: 14 games .552 (22.8 points/game)
    December 9 games .594 (29.6 points/game)

    his 3ptFG% went from 22.3% in October to 36.3% in December

    What I saw was that Dame quit deferring. I don't know whether Billups backed-off on his Dame-off-the-ball strategy or if Dame just decided it wasn't working

    and the biggest change was a combo, IMO. Dame started to figure out the new foul rules and the officials, as anticipated, stopped letting excessive contact go without whistles. For Dame, the progression of his FTA/game:

    October 3.7
    November 4.9
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    Fairly. Then again with Nike in our back yard maybe Freedom wasn't worth the PR.
     
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    Surely then, the Lakers will have many many suitors for Westbrook in the trade market come the deadline...
     
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    andrew wiggins in an all star starter.

    dafuq
     
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    REPOST WIGGINS AN ALLSTAR STARTER!!!
     
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    so, a guy averaging 18 points, 4 rebs, and 2 assists with a PER of 16.2 is an all-star starter

    the NBA is Fantastic!!!
     
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    @KSF-ERIC Ja Morant is an all star starter. Looks like we were correct on him.

    Can people finally admit how good he is?
     
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    DUB Da, da da, da dah!

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    A great article by Windhorst on Aaron Baynes' mysterious lockerroom injury at the Olympics.

    The mysterious fall and harrowing story of an NBA center

    I never realised how serious it was.

    :lol:

    https://www.espn.com.au/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center
     
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