It is absolutely, positively true that Durant's numbers could be being blown out of proportion because his team is terrible, or it could be that his...
The point for the TEAM, sure. When looking at individual capabilities, wins don't have much value in my eyes. What lack of improvement are...
I don't know why you're misreading my argument so badly. There is NO guarantee that Durant will continue to improve. I make NO assumptions that he...
Even ignoring your bias as a Blazers fan, you trade based on net present value. You don't trade based on who the best player is. They're two...
It makes sense to me. Did you read and understand my analogy about determining expected value from a die with an unknown number of sides? Ed O.
The stats are getting more refined, but until we get more data (at least until the data that's collected is more widely available) the stats can only...
None of them are having good seasons this year. Why would we include players in the top 10 that aren't playing well when there are so many that are?...
A "fluke" and "a less than optimal indicator of how good a player is" mean the same thing to me. Ed O.
Roy has two sub-20 PER seasons. Durant only has one... as a teenager. Both seasons might be fluky--in either direction. I'm simply not putting as...
I disagree. A player could have been hurt for half of the season and be a better player than someone who has not been hurt. A player could have been...
Minstrel makes points consistent with what I was asserting, but as to this SPECIFIC question: Durant is nearly as good as Roy is now and he's over...
I expected him to improve after his rookie season. I expected him to improve after his second season. I have doubts, though, that he will improve...
You think that any single season is indicative of a player's true capabilities? Really? Do you think any single game is indicative? Or any given...
No problem. I don't see him crashing back to earth, and I don't EXPECT him to be worse. I just have doubts that he'll take another step up. Hope...
Well, I know it's pretty elementary but I wasn't not sure you understood it. Are you mocking me for pointing out the obvious, or mocking me for...
I don't understand what you want me to answer. Are your questions rhetorical? Ed O.
Absolutely I do. Ed O.
Nope. Sorry. A single failure doesn't mean a system-wide failure. I predicted 48 wins, and that is significantly higher than Hollinger's...
Try to read my posts. I know that you can't be bothered to pay attention to the crazy numbers I'm throwing around, but I'm not going to reiterate my...
You can't even properly relate what my point is, and you think that my point is "absolutely crazy"? OK... Ed O.
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