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    2000 -2020 Teams that make it to the finals (42 teams)

    Top 10 Offense + Top 10 Offense: 25/42 (59.5%)
    Top 5 Offense + Top 15 Defense: 4/42 (9.5%)
    Top 5 Defense + Top 15 Offense: 4/42 (9.5%)
    Other: 9/42 (21.5%)
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    This is our year because of depth.

    when most teams dont have enough players to play and win, we will surge up from the cellar and take this season!!!

    how we win? Stay covid free and be the last team standing.

    or replace the coach...
     
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    Alright, party peeps. Can you name the team in the upper left corner?
     
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    Dallas
     
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    I'm gonna go with Celtics. One of the old teams that had Bill Russell
     
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    What is this, Geometry? That graph gives me a headache. Just tell us the teams.
     
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    No!
     
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    No, it's pretty recent.
     
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    It's hip to be a square.

    The teams don't matter. What matters is that you better finish top 10 in both offense and defense if you want to make it to the finals. Of course, this does not guarantee anything.
     
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    Pretty recent i would say GS but obviously i'm reaching at straws here.
     
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    Not to be a stickler or anything but by my count, the 10x10 box has 20 dots and the 5x15 boxes have 15 and 16 dots.
     
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    I got that also but i figured it might be duplicate boxes?
     
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    Also this is showing the probability of being in some box (some O&D rating) given you make the finals. What you want is probability of making the finals given you are in some box on the graph.

    For example only 2/42 teams are in box 2x2 while 20/42 are in 10x10. Does that mean it’s harder to make it to the finals if you are top 2 in offense and defense than top 10?
     
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    Thinking outside the "Box" now.
     
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    Looks like the 2018 Cavs
     
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    Yep.
     
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    Thanks for the graph @Wizard Mentor , love this stuff!

    I would've expected a fairly straight line from top left to bottom right, but there is such a weak correlation. Super interesting!

    Who are the two teams on the bottom left?
     
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    i was reading the chRt wrong. I thought it meant all d and no offense. Its the opposite i see.
    So ill go with the wallace pistons?
     
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    nm. Lol
     
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    Should be noted that 2018 Cavs squad turned up their defense in the playoffs to a level that equated to the 4th best regular season rating that year.
     
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