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The Debut of Laker Stats Orgy!
Last season during the playoffs, I ran a regular column here at SS&R titled Tempo-Free Boxscore Breakdown. In it I used a toolkit of unorthodox statistical measures to take apart the Lakers performanc...
Kobe Enjoys Shanking the Rockets
There was never any hope that last night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets was going to be pretty. For the Lakers it was part two of a back-to-back on the road. T...
Lakers Visit Dust Bowl, Take Part in Athletic Contest of Some Kind
It was basketball, you say? Ehh, that's a bit of a stretch, dude. Whatever it was the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder got up to last night bore little resemblance to the sport of hoops as...
Lakers Finally Snap Nearly Season-Long Losing Streak
All right, guys, I've come up with a great play on words for you. You're gonna love it. You ready? Here goes: The Lakers last night were "Pau-less" but not powerless. Ha ha! I know, right? My jokes ru...
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...
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...
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. I...
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 e...
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 we...
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; th...
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