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stone ocean and sbr where it's at

and part 5

Y’all going out to watching Tenet or nah

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If you look at the individual stats I used... Butler is ahead of Tatum in all of them and way ahead of him in some... look at his contested shots and defensive %'s... players shoot 31% from 3 against him and 32% from midrange... He also averages 1.8 steals per game and 3.4 deflections per game.

I'd add Jerami Grant to that list over Tatum as well.... he has some ridiculous numbers... opponents shoot significantly worse everywhere when he's guarding them... 29% from 3 and 29% from midrange.

PJ's the guy we usually send primarily at LeBron, Kawhi, heck also Tatum and other star wings... Him or Covington take turns... I counted Tucker because we switch everything and he guards out on the perimeter even more than he does inside depending on the matchup... Given how many 3s he contests I think it's fair to consider him a wing defender.

PPP, defensive rating, RPM, etc.... Advanced defensive stats like that are affected by your teammates so I'd think it has to impact it pretty strongly so you have to look at that sure, but all the individual player numbers as well.

I'd bet defensive advanced metrics put a guy like Middleton pretty highly too(he has a better defensive rating than both) I obviously don't think he's better than Butler or Tatum either... Most individual numbers don't support that.

Also the guys I mentioned tend to guard the tougher matchups more frequently than Tatum which is another thing that probably should be taken into account...

"All I know is, the Lakers better get on their knees and pray that my Spurs don't get that 8th seed. We'll beat them bums in 5 games, max, son."

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contemplating

I agree.... he should take the whole playoffs off

gotta post the L's too.

Down 290 past two days. Likely going to hang it up until Saturday. Too much unpredictability with whether or not teams will play their players at critical parts of the game. Might slam the Blazers tomorrow but likely just retiring from seeding games gambling.

Final Seeding Games Winnings:
$5.3k

thx for the cheese everyone itt

I want to lol... may have to find a theater and mask up hopefully in a row with not many people seated lol

but those individual stats are noisy too, because contested shot data doesn't even necessarily require a contest. if you're the closest guy to the shot, they count that as a contest. hell, most 3pa in the league are classified as open or wide open for a reason. and nothing can be examined without context. like deflections for example. the celtics in general don't play an aggressive type of defense (we almost never gamble on anything) yet tatum still ranks highly mostly because he's an elite defender in the passing lanes. and we send tatum at every position but center. nylon calculus tracks matchup data and tatum, last i checked, is the only player who has spent at least 19% of his time on defense guarding 1-4. we also switch everything, and brad never really plays matchup ball until its necessary.

and rpm as a whole seeks to isolate individual performance from your teammates as much as possible. and i don't think contested 3s is a good metric of what classifies as a wing defender. brook lopez contests a s*** ton of 3s as well. youd have to have some sort of arbitrary cutoff point.

also im not sure where this jimmy data is coming from. he has 629 fga against him, opponents shoot 42.3% if im reading this right. tatum has 631 dfga, opponents shoot 43.1%. thats such a minute difference to the point its insignificant. not to mention perhaps we need to give tatum credit for the dissuading shot attempts? i mean, a few years ago kawhis contest numbers weren't all that impressive, but that was because guys wouldn't shoot against him.

same

Is that even an option rn?

18 hours later and this f***ing VORPfest still going on

@DonJulio we are really getting jazz vs nuggets lmao

It will be soon

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