FiveThirtyEight previews the NBA season

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  1. magnifier661

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    Those stats are supposed to be combined with others to mean anything. Examples: like PER vs usages etc.
     
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    The Lakers have 3 steaming piles of shit in their starting lineup.
     
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    And we knew that without even reading the article...
     
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    They are going to be terribad, and it makes me happy
     
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    Sorry, but this is shit. The Spurs should be no worse than 2nd. I'm not sure how the team that won 54 games with a shit-ass bench (Portland), is going to be 7 games and 2 spots lower, considering their bench is better this year.

    Sure, the team probably over achieved a bit last year, but they were among the top 4 spot in the west for what, 75% of the season? Their bench IS better, even if Robinson seems to have not shown great improvement.

    Houston, who barely finished above Portland and lost Lin, Asik and Parsons (for basically nothing)....is 2 games worse!?

    538 should probably stick to political predictions.
     
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    This isn't even close.
     
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    One thing to like about this is it gives us a first round matchup with the Clips - I'll take that!
     
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    If Defense is Aldridge strength but not Batum's or RoLo's they surely didn't watch them play.
     
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    Turns out they were.
     
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    "But wait till they play us with Aldridge"
     
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    But, to be fair, anyone who got that right either had a time machine or didn't know anything about basketball and was just guessing.
    (Whatsisname that looks about 10 years old, coach of the Celtics, should EASILY win CoTY if they hadn't already made the decision months ago when Golden State and Atlanta were looking shit hot.)
     
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    Whatever forecast model they use wasn't so great because of those things. It's "chaos" - things that can't be modeled.

    fivethirtyeight started doing baseball forecasts, I do believe.
     
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    Considering we really finished 6th, they got close for us.
     
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