You misspelled Laimbeer
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Nobody was more pissed off than me/Fresh when Bird and Magic became friends during the filming of the Converse Weapon commercial in French Lick, Indiana. It was devastating to both us. The rivalry died that day.
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Maybe these for Ron??
The stoic strategist
Coach blueprint
The methodical mentor
The assistant
Coach 2.0
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I just realized that chat GPT recommended the nickname Sanchez for Ron Sanchez. The machines are coming, folksā¦
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Yikes
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I retract this because had no clue what it actually means in urban dictionary
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ChatGPT canāt give tone and inflection. I wonder if the AI was trying to say it like Antonio Banderas or James Earl Jones?
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Yeah, pretty vivid.
Coach de la Calle
Sanchez el Serio
Ron el Callado
Sadly, given the source attribution ā¦ I know what you suggested.
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The Euro stop is apparently going to be the next big thing. From Anthony Edwards to Harrison Barnes, āEuro stopā has become all the rage in NBA - The Athletic
Overall pace is a component with two inputs: offensive pace and defensive pace. For example, here are all 3 numbers for VCU
All three statements below are correct, depending on context:
- VCU was a bit slower than average
- VCU was a bit faster than average
- VCU was very slow
Effective communication often requires some level of precision. Thank you for time. Now please continue to ignore all of this when you discuss pace because misunderstandings are the key for all good message board fights.
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Yeah I heard on one broadcast that they had the slowest defensive pace in the nation which I thought was quite interesting
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I think they were #27 on transition percentage on offense in Hoop Explorer if I didnāt eff up the filters (hey @haney you can sort teams by transition percentage in Hoop Explorer): hoop-explorer.com/TeamStatsExplorer?
21.5% of their possessions were in transition.
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I probably shouldāve started this in the X/O threadā¦ sorry @jazznutUVA
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Help me understand how or why a team has control over its own defensive pace.
Doesnāt it mean they defend well, the opponent has to burn more time seeking a decent shot (or even successfully navigating pressure)?
Does it point to some lack of turnovers against expected or something like that?
Hereās how I would answer
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My guess is that in the case of VCU last year, the main two contributors were the following:
- They ran a press that wasnāt super aggressive and slowed teams getting into the front-court
- They were solid defensively (especially in transition), making it tough for teams to score early shot-clock buckets
But this is just speculation based on watching a few VCU games. I would guess that defensive rankings and defensive pace rankings have strong negative correlation, but I donāt know what factors are taken into account under Dr. Pomeroy or Dr. Torvikās rankings
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Itās a straight up calculation
Possessions = FGA-OR+TO+.475*FTA
Donāt know exactly how they disaggregate offense and defense, since both teams should have basically equal possessions. I suppose it can be done with play by play data
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Yeah, the latter is based on possession length. So I spose theyāre not COMPLETELY correlated, but mostly.
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