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Stat Trends to Watch in the New Season
What's up, sexy mamas? Those of you who chilled here during the playoffs last season may recall our regular, wittily named Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown feature. The objective of TFBB was to bring you quantitative analysis of the Lakers using next-gen stat methods, although that makes what we did...
Lakers-Magic: A Statistical Series Retrospective
The Lakers' series victory over the Orlando Magic was most striking in its thoroughness. Which is to say - from a stathead point of view, whatever the superiority that the Lakers demonstrated over 455 possessions may have lacked in historic, shock-and-awe magnitude, it more than made up for in...
Lakers-Magic Game 4: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
In Game Four, Derek Fisher had a Robert Horry kind of night. This is a more complicated notion than you might think and, as hoops compliments go, is both enormous and enormously qualified. It invokes a sense of role player yin-and-yang that manifests equally in long stretches of ineffectual play,...
Lakers-Magic Game 3: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
Reversion to the mean is a powerful force. In principle, it holds that over time, the outcomes of uncertain events will reflect their underlying probabilities. Take the most basic example of such an event: a coin flip. If you flip a quarter, say, eight times, it may very well turn up heads six...
Lakers-Magic Game 2: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
This is going to be on the test, class, so please listen carefully: the Orlando Magic were the best defensive team in the NBA this year. What? Don't look at me like that. Honestly, they were. Possession for possession over the course of the season, they were the most difficult team to score...
Lakers-Magic Game 1: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
This is an odd thing to write about a 40-point, 8-assist, 8-rebound boxscore line, but Kobe Bryant's full-game stats don't do justice to the majesty of his Game One performance. Don't get me wrong; those numbers - which, lest we forget, include a couple blocks, a couple steals and a stunning...
Enemy at the Gates: An In-Depth Statistical Preview of the NBA Finals
Who do you think will sing the national anthem at Staples Center on Thursday night? If I had to guess, I'd say it'll be an au courant R&B star of whom I'll only barely have heard (because I'm a douchey crypto-hipster white guy who just listens to Pitchfork-approved indie bands that all...
Lakers-Nugs Game 6: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
In their twilight years, the physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, the American military effort to create an atomic bomb for use in World War II, developed severe ethical misgivings about the fearsome weapon they'd invented. The Italian Enrico Fermi spent parts of his final years...
Lakers-Nugs Game 5: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
Anyone who's been following the Lakers' 2009 playoff run - also known as the Spring of Our Extreme Angst and Discontent and Holy Crap This Team Is Driving Me Nuts I Need a New Hobby - has, at one time or another, read or heard something like the following: The Lakers are struggling because they're...
Lakers-Nugs Game 4: Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown
Had Gertrude Stein been a hoops fan, and if she had lived to watch it, Game Four of the Western Conference Finals would have reminded her greatly of Oakland. There was, in last night's game - as she famously observed of her hometown - no there there. Not only did it fail to change either the...
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