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by RaptorsHQ - Defensive Stance on May 14, 2010 1:25 PM EDT
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PrintIt’s no surprise that teams like Toronto — who try to stretch the floor with their height but often lose the battle for live balls — lost more games than they won.
A couple of terrific questions from Basketball Reference and the Wages of Wins Journal: Which position should you build around for playoff success? And how many stars do you need to win a title?
Well, considering the Raptors are about to watch their only player boasting a WP48 in excess of 0.200 leave via free agency. And considering that "star" player is also a power forward — a position that has become dominant in the championship conversation since Michael Jordan retired — I don't like this team's playoff chances for the forseeable future.
Arsenalist from Raptors Republic notes that Chris Bosh's impending free agency is lacking enthusiasm.
Marco Belinelli joins Raptors teammate Andrea Bargnani on an Italian squad that will face tough competition at the EuroBasket 2011 qualifier.
Can you name the currently active NBA players from foreign countries?
Defense fail.
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Non linear
I looked at the data sets on the height v. various rebounding stats in the posted article.
Apart from GSW being an obvious weirdo in those graph plots, I think that establishing a linear relationship from this data is completely the wrong way to go.
The comparative quadrant theory is an interesting measure; but why not just look at teams that rebound well – and go from there? But fair enough, its always interesting to look at a study.
I keep wondering why GSW is ‘out there’ like pluto in all the graphs – its kinda like arguments whether pluto is a planet – or simply a large piece of sub-planetary debris…..
uhm
Do I read it correctly that DAL, BOS,HOU,DEN have a lower %TRB than Toronto (albeit not by much) and they are still winning teams?
I believe that TOR, among other things, has been lacking a leader. Denver las a treadmill team before they got Billups and this team, trough various circumstances lost it’s best player (but no leader) after the ASG. I did not partecipate much to the debate on tis foruma letely but for all the mental masturbation that went on here, there must have been something else going on we do not fully apreciate- This team was 31-24 and then it just stop playing. One has to hope that via the S&T or via trade alone we get that. We need that more (or at least as much as) than #4 rebounds.
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