By DY_nasty Go To PostHe played better than Gobert against Houston low keyThis is probably true. He is going to surprise some people if can sign with a team that doesn't have to play him out of position.
By giririsss Go To PostNot really sure starting favors helps them.He's a lot better than Thompson.
By diehard Go To PostThis is probably true. He is going to surprise some people if can sign with a team that doesn't have to play him out of position.Their problem isn't their bigs.
He's a lot better than Thompson.
I mean, they're not great, but that's not their problem.
Their problem is no one out side of LBJ is doing anything or creating any offense / has any gravity what so ever.
By giririsss Go To PostNot really sure starting favors helps them.im serious though
not a jazz fan. wrong troll.
favors had a much better on off
By diehard Go To PostThis is probably true. He is going to surprise some people if can sign with a team that doesn't have to play him out of position.see lol
By giririsss Go To PostTheir problem isn't their bigs.this wasn't about the Cavs it was to make me feel better about Hood not being good and traded for trash
I mean, they're not great, but that's not their problem.
Their problem is no one out side of LBJ is doing anything or creating any offense / has any gravity what so ever.
By s y 2.0 Go To Post@smokey
538 has Houston with a 56% chance of winning the title.
They gave Clinton better odds.
By Fenderputty Go To PostThey gave Clinton better odds.
Too soon
By diehard Go To Postthis wasn't about the Cavs it was to make me feel better about Hood not being good and traded for trashJazz probably got more out of Crowder than the Cavs got out of Hood.
Crowder was the perfect for Cleveland
Spot up shooter/3 pointer
Plays decent defense
Doesn’t get sonned
Talks shit
He just went full emo in Cleveland
Spot up shooter/3 pointer
Plays decent defense
Doesn’t get sonned
Talks shit
He just went full emo in Cleveland
Guy I play ball with is a huge Celtics fan. Always talked shit about Jae Crowder and how he was never any good even before the trade
Really good 538 piece
The Cavs Live And Die By The Three ... and against the Celtics so far, they’ve been dying.
The Cavs Live And Die By The Three ... and against the Celtics so far, they’ve been dying.
Now, it is fair to ask which direction the causation goes here. The Cavs’ offense is mainly predicated on LeBron James coming off a ball screen and either creating for himself or finding the open man when the opponent brings help. And certainly James himself has taken on a huge percentage of Cleveland’s 3-point shooting load. So maybe the Cavs are simply getting better looks because the rest of their offense — i.e., LeBron — is functioning at a higher level. (For example, the Cavs have shot a very healthy 20-for-32 on passes from James in the Eastern Conference Finals so far.)
But if LeBron is generating more open shots only in games where the Cavs are rolling, it’s not showing up in the numbers. According to Second Spectrum’s Quantified Shot Quality metric (which calculates an expected shooting percentage for each shot based on its difficulty), Cleveland doesn’t tend to get better deep looks in its good games than its bad ones. In wins during the playoffs, the Cavs have an expected effective field goal percentage of 52.4 percent on 3-pointers; in losses, that number barely drops, to 52.0 percent. Instead, it’s Cleveland’s ability to capitalize on those 3-pointers that has varied wildly: from an eFG% 4.4 points higher than expected in postseason wins to one 10.6 points lower than expected in losses.
Game 2 against Boston was a great case study of Cleveland’s Jekyll-and-Hyde shooting tendencies. In the first half, the Cavs built a 7-point lead while going 7-for-14 (50 percent) from deep; in the second half, they watched that lead slip away as they shot a dismal 3-for-17 (18 percent) from beyond the arc. Their shot quality on threes (again according to Second Spectrum) declined by 2.1 points of expected eFG% between halves, so the Celtics did a better job of challenging the Cavs’ shooters as the game went on.3 But a far bigger factor in Cleveland’s decline was its massive 35-point drop in eFG% versus expected — in other words, the kind of streaky variance that can’t be explained by shot quality alone.
By unknown Go To PostIt makes no sense to rely on 3's since they aren't good at it.They were a top four team in 3pt shooting during the regular season. The four teams left were all among the best 3pt teams in the league this year.
By Kibner Go To PostThey were a top four team in 3pt shooting during the regular season. The four teams left were all among the best 3pt teams in the league this year.Houston was pretty average if going by percentage, but i assume you are not.
By diehard Go To PostHouston was pretty average if going by percentage, but i assume you are not.no, going by something called net points which tries to marry efficiency and volume together
By Kibner Go To Postno, going by something called net points which tries to marry efficiency and volume togetheruh where is this stat
By diehard Go To Postuh where is this stati'll be honest; it's something that has to be calculated by hand because stat sites don't have it and i got the list from a poster on another forum crazy enough to do it. It is points scored from 3 point attempts minus total attempts. So, (3PM * 3) - 3PA. For 3 Net Points (3NP), anyway.
The list that he shared:
3NP Team
409 Golden State Warriors
325 Boston Celtics
307 Cleveland Cavaliers
298 Houston Rockets
105 New York Knicks
82 Los Angeles Lakers
3 Phoenix Suns
He sometimes adds pace into the calculation to get a better idea of the rate instead of just the total net.
By diehard Go To PostIt's missing the Pistons who would be #3 with 317.I got 285 for the Pistons. 886*3 - 2373 = 285
https://stats.nba.com/teams/shots-general/?sort=FG3_PCT&dir=1&Season=2017-18&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&PerMode=Totals has them at 2,341 threes taken.
By diehard Go To Posthttps://stats.nba.com/teams/shots-general/?sort=FG3_PCT&dir=1&Season=2017-18&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&PerMode=Totals has them at 2,341 threes taken.weird, bbref has them at 2373: https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/2018.html
By reilo Go To Poststats.nba.com will be more accurateYeah, it just doesn't go back as far and this dude does a lot of historical comparisons so probably uses bbref just to keep the numbers consistent with themselves.
By s y Go To PostDraymond's momma blaming KD for the game 2 loss.She's right:
Reilo upgrade the Twitter embeds pls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UphttlLQojk
By s y Go To Post
The curry d literally had me close the video within two minutes lol
By diehard Go To PostI think the Cavs get a blowout tonightroad boston about to get rekt
Celts proved me wrong all playoffs so i'm not gonna bet against them anymore. I do think cavs take this tho.
Cavs don't take it without at least 2 of the following
a) Considerable ROAD BAWSTIN
b) Ref help
c) Lue actually starts Korver and less TT
d) Lue plays Clarkson/Osman/Nance decent minutes
e) some combo of c) and d) which results in MUCH LESS JR SMIF
a) Considerable ROAD BAWSTIN
b) Ref help
c) Lue actually starts Korver and less TT
d) Lue plays Clarkson/Osman/Nance decent minutes
e) some combo of c) and d) which results in MUCH LESS JR SMIF
By friskykillface Go To PostJR is hitting at least 5 threes tonightHe'll give up 30 points due to no communication on switches/BBall IQ of a gnat.
Celtics first 5 possesions they had excellent shots... just missed 4. Cavs trying to get their off-ball guys scoring early, no LeBron.
EDIT: Cavs D still shit.
EDIT: Cavs D still shit.
Holy crap.
By Koko Go To PostBrown and Tatum about to have 2 fouls each, before the first timeout.... Stevens sitting Tatum before refs get ideas.
By pilonv1 Go To PostLegit forgot that Boston had homecourt and thought this game was at home for themYou thought they won two on the road?
By pilonv1 Go To PostLegit forgot that Boston had homecourt and thought this game was at home for themlook at this elitist who never has to worry about homecourt smh
