Another week and another podcast. You can find us in one of several ways
- Super Stat Team Podcast – 05/25/2011 – Direct Download
- Our RSS Feed
- Find us in iTunes
Below are some extra notes to help you enjoy the podcast even more (as if that were possible!)
Super Stat Team Assemble
- Andres Alvarez of Nerd Numbers
- Arturo of Arturo’s Silly Little Stat’s
- Daniel Alvarez of Alvarez Films
- Devin Dignam of Nbeh?
Falling Stars
- Russell Westbrook has played well, what happened?
- Derrick Rose is now negative in this round of the playoffs.
All Time Greats?
- Jason Kidd is old and great. He may just have good timing.
- Is Dirk top 10. . . vs.
- Karl Malone? Malone’s Playoff numbers aren’t so good.
- Charles Barkley? Barkley was and still is offensive.
- Miami and the colluding stars is nothing new.
- The Best Center in the League Always Wins A Title? Really?
Management
- Arturo likes Mike Brown to the Lakers. His reasons may not be altruistic.
- John Canzano of The Oregonian writing about the “break-up” between the Blazers and ex-GM Rich Cho. There’s also a story about Brandon Roy from the same writer.
- Collangelo was re-signed in Toronto. Could he possibly help the franchise?
Bad Language and Consequences
- J. A. Adande on the difference between the Noah/Kobe fines
- Article with a transcript of a conversation between Noah and TrueHoop blogger Kevin Arnovitz (who is an out gay sportswriter)
Podcast “Extras”
- This may be the only podcast to ever confuse Reggie Evans with Reggie Miller. Spike Lee has probably heckled both.
- Have you seen Love and Basketball? If not you’re in for a treat (spoiler alert!)
- UStream is what we use to record our podcasts. If you try and listen to yourself you get a fun feedback effect!
Enjoy!
-Dre
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EntityAbyss
05/25/2011
I know you’ve said that Dirk is the main point of Dallas’s offense. I was wondering though – do the Mavs have a legitimate power forward after Dirk or do they just play small?
Also, how does the effect work? Do efficient players just draw more attention making their teammates more efficient or is it just them taking shots away from their lesser teammates?
alvy
05/25/2011
does it have something to do with the team’s average fg% and that of Dirk’s? in other words, because Dirk shoots at a higher percentage than his average teammate, it would be most beneficial for him to have the highest usage possible? (i dont actually know the fg%, but intuitively, that is what i’m getting at)
arturogalletti
05/25/2011
Alvy/EA,
Dirk’s usage curve for this year is straight line.So his efficiency is the same regardless of how many shots he takes.This means that pretty much regardless of situation, if Dirk is in the game Dallas has a good option on O. This has an unique effect.
EntityAbyss
05/26/2011
I get that, but Dirk doesn’t shoot that many shots. He’s scary when he keeps getting the ball and putting shots up, but when he isn’t, teams live.
alvy
05/26/2011
wow!
arturo, do you have a visualization or post on this?