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2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

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33 minutes ago, jec said:

The 7 seed is ours boys

kyrie done

Lol, I wish. Kyrie has been out pretty much the whole season and we've still been falling behind on the Nets. We need a similar end to the season as last year to pass them.

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3 hours ago, HeartAndHustle said:

They have a better record without him, unfortunately.

What are they paying him to do?

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Some interesting statistical notes I found when looking up other stuff:

On an individual basis:

We have two of the best cutters in the league in Gordon and Fournier (Fournier is actually better than Gordon, scoring 1.68 ppp when cutting to Gordon's 1.57. On a PPP basis, Fournier is basically the best in the league, though Gordon has twice the number of attempts). Neither are in the top 50 players when it comes to volume though. (To be fair, most of the top 20 or so are centers).

We basically don't run isos, which is good because our team is terrible at it.

We post up too much for a team that is terrible at it. (Vuch posts up 3.7 times per game. He scores .73 PPP in post up situations. Gordon has 2.1 post ups per game scoring .89 PPP) Post ups are in general inefficient, but sometimes you need that different look. Vuch is top 10 in attempts per game though while being one of the least efficient players in post up situations in the league.

We are missing Augustin's spot up abilities. Besides Fournier, he is basically the only guy we have that is above average.

We are actually pretty good with players coming off screens. I would say we should do it more, but with Fournier and Ross, we already have 2 of the top 12 when it comes to number of plays finished in this manner.

Team basis:

We are good at finishing in transition (top 10), but bad at getting into those situations (bottom 10 in the league in attempts)

As noted above, we are terrible at isos, but clifford is smart enough to limit those attempts and we attempt the least in the league.

We are average when the P&R ball handler finishes the play, but below average when the roll man finishes the play.

We are the worst post up team in the league efficiency wise and attempt too many post ups.

We are the worst spot up team in the league.

We are average at hand offs.

We are average at cutting plays, even while having two of the best cutters in the league on our team.

We are good at coming off screens.

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Takeaways from above:

Looking at a lot of this, it can be hard to see why we are such a terrible offensive team, as we are average in a lot of categories, and even good in some of the categories. But where we are terrible, we are really bad.

And this is really important with spot up shooting, which is the most prevalent way for teams to finish a play. So, while we are in the bottom 5 frequency wise in finishing plays, that is still 20 plays per game where we are only squeaking out .9 PPP.

Compare that with finishing plays off of screens. We score a respectable 1.02 points per possession in those circumstances, and yet only 7.4 plays per game finish off of these actions. And, unfortunately, this is unlikely to go up, as we are already close to the top in that category.

And we really need to get out into transition more. The slow pace is really hurting our team get easy baskets. We are not a bad transition team, but we play like we are a bad transition team- scared of pushing the ball up the court.

Basically, we seem to make some bad offensive decisions when it comes to amount of plays run in different categories and we are so bad at the most common finishing type that our offensive ceiling is very limited until our shooting improves. This is why we really miss Augustin. And I can't help but wonder how much the difficulties with one type of play exasperate our difficulties in other situations.

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6 hours ago, Odin said:

We post up too much for a team that is terrible at it.

We are good at finishing in transition (top 10), but bad at getting into those situations (bottom 10 in the league in attempts)

You know what will kill 2 birds with one stone? Trade Vuc for a 'worse' center (who will actually be better for us as a team) that runs the floor and plays solid D and is on a good contract. Because we are trading the 'better' player, we can ask for a pick or a good young piece to develop as well. Can stack some assets to go after a disgruntled SG if one comes up this off season with Evan being part of that deal.

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