NBA Thread

[dineke]

Kyle's been terrible for a full 2 months now...

[dineke]

Lou iso or DD off balance fadeaway 2.

 

DD 360 turnaround jumpshot for air.

[GD]

Holy s*** that's ridiculous

[Boxcar]

f*** off Lowry.

[dineke]

Just give it to JJ and get out of the way....

[GD]

This is a pretty bad team, honestly.

[Boxcar]

Omg Lowry and DD's need to be heroes cost them the game.

[Laika]

rough

 

it's like all they did were little pull ups and fades for the last 12 possessions...

[dineke]

JV beasting all game... benched in crunch time. Good job Casey.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

New Orleans made shots down the stretch. Credit where credit is due.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

JV beasting all game... benched in crunch time. Good job Casey.

 

To be fair, he was quite gassed. Looked like he could barely stand when he came out around the 6 minute mark.

[jays_fever]

Swept by the Pelicans without facing Davis, Anderson or Holiday lol. 13 Assists on 35 makes is a pretty bad ratio.

 

It isnt hard Casey, use DeRozan as a point forward so he passes more and shoots less..run the offence through JV more..

 

Great to see James Johnson having another solid night.

[Horses Fart]

I fell asleep not long into the fourth when NO cut it to a 2pt lead. By reading the comments I'm just wondering if DD and KL f***ed this game for us down the stretch?

[Horses Fart]

This is a pretty bad team, honestly.

 

They certainly makes u wonder sometimes hey by'.............weren't we up by 18 at one point last night?

[GD]

They certainly makes u wonder sometimes hey by'.............weren't we up by 18 at one point last night?

 

and then we lost

 

to the pelicans

 

without Anthony Davis

[Boxcar]

I fell asleep not long into the fourth when NO cut it to a 2pt lead. By reading the comments I'm just wondering if DD and KL f***ed this game for us down the stretch?

 

Demar figured that he had to win the game with an early shot clock deep fadeaway 2, and Lowry kept trying to be the hero, but missed all of his shots.

 

I think Derozan is probably a decent player with a coach who doesn't just let him do whatever he wants. Cut out the chucking already.

[KingKat]

The Raptors write-up from the ESPN exposé on anlytics:

 

 

 

http://espn.go.com/prod/styles/pagetype/otl/20150220_analytics/images/circle_nba_tor.png

TORONTO

 

RAPTORS

 

A detailed 2013 Zach Lowe feature on Grantland pulled back the curtains on the Raptors' front office, revealing not only a strong analytics team making creative use of SportVU data but also tensions about how to put those insights into action.

Shortly after that story, Toronto hired Masai Ujiri as GM, replacing Bryan Colangelo, who sources say had allowed a rift to develop in the organization. Outside sources who know Ujiri describe him as a creative thinker, talented scout and good manager, but not a champion of analytics. While with the Denver Nuggets, he worked with Dean Oliver but opted not to replace him after Oliver left the organization for a role at ESPN. With the Raptors, Ujiri retained consultants Alex Rucker and Keith Boyarsky, who built the SportVU interface Lowe detailed along with team staffer Eric Khoury.

"It's a great part of the game to know," Ujiri told the National Post in 2013. "I think the NBA is trendy. I don't want to say it's the trend now. But that's the nature of us. I think analytics are a huge part. We have a good department that studies the game that way. I study the game that way."

Ujiri's moves in Toronto have given mixed signals about the role of analytics. He quickly traded overpaid Andrea Bargnani and Rudy Gay for high value, but was also willing to trade then-underrated Kyle Lowry for a meager package to begin rebuilding. Only when the New York Knicks declined a proposed Lowry deal did it become apparent that the Raptors had built an unexpected winner.

The structural issues in the organization have had the unfortunate effect of painting coach Dwane Casey as an archaic stat-hater, which is misleading. He worked closely with Oliver as an assistant coach in Seattle and Roland Beech as part of Rick Carlisle's staff in Dallas and gets high marks from both for being open to using analytics.

[dineke]

Demar figured that he had to win the game with an early shot clock deep fadeaway 2, and Lowry kept trying to be the hero, but missed all of his shots.

 

I think Derozan is probably a decent player with a coach who doesn't just let him do whatever he wants. Cut out the chucking already.

 

It's been 6 years now and Derozan still hasn't developed a respectable 3 pt shot and he's even terrible at mid range shots now too. I don't know if that's Casey or the shooting coach's fault, or maybe it's just him but we have a shooting guard who can't shoot.

[Orgfiller]

We match up pretty badly with the Mavericks. This could be a rough game if all we do is jack up shots all game long.

[Horses Fart]

AJ out early.

[Orgfiller]

Oh my Dirk.

[jays_fever]

Derozan just drove the ball all the way down the court, took a step back fadeaway with 15 seconds left on the clock and got blocked lol.

[GD]

Oh my Dirk.

 

Throwback to when we turned down Nash + Dirk for Vince

[jays_fever]

Throwback to when we turned down Nash + Dirk for Vince

 

Was that actually confirmed?

 

I know the Pau Gasol for the 2006 1st overall pick was later

[Orgfiller]

Lol @ Amar'e

[Orgfiller]

Demar needs to stop. Aminu is not giving him any room.

[dineke]

Wth, we could have gotten Dirk and Nash for Vince, and Pau for bargnani pick?!!?!?!?!??

[Orgfiller]

Wth, we could have gotten Dirk and Nash for Vince, and Pau for bargnani pick?!!?!?!?!??

 

We could have also gotten Lamarcus Aldridge instead. That Bargnani pick was a disaster in every way.

[GD]

We could have also gotten Lamarcus Aldridge instead. That Bargnani pick was a disaster in every way.

 

Pau would've been better.

 

Nash

Mo-Pete

Jalen Rose? lol

Dirk

Pau

 

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

[dineke]

Pau would've been better.

 

Nash

Mo-Pete

Jalen Rose? lol

Dirk

Pau

 

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

 

Yeah if we got Dirk and Nash no way we would have had the 1st pick to trade for Pau.