Comments on: Tuesday Bolts – 2.9.10

By: K

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:02:40 +0000

Exactly. The Thunder are about decidedly NOT a never-know-what-you’re-gonna-get-game-to-game team. They are actually one of the most consistent teams in the league. The Thunder win almost all of the games they are supposed to (and win them by good margins most of the time) and show up and play well against the good squads too.

Yet the BlazersEdge pregame opens:

The Thunder are one heck of an interesting team right now. They’re good, playing extremely well right now in fact, but they’re young. Their season has been typified by short streaks: win 2, lose 3, win 4, lose 5, win 3 and so on. Put it all together and you have a 29-21 team that’s capable of winning on many nights but could also throw the unexpected stinker performance in there.

UNTRUE.

The Thunder lost to the Kings and Clips in the first two weeks of the season, but since then their only bad loss was two weeks ago home against the Bulls. (The only other arguable bad losses would be @MIL or @MEM, but road games against ~.500 teams aren’t gimmes).

The Mighty Blazers, meanwhile, have lost road games @GSW, @NYK, @LAC, and @WAS, and blown a home game against Philly.

Who’s the inconsistent team again?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:42:29 +0000

Btw, I don’t know if this has been linked here yet. If you take the time to read the post and figure out how to read the thing, this is a pretty amazing tool.

http://www.hoopdata.com/recent.aspx?aid=139

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:37:19 +0000

@justin Yeah, I know. Point guards are going to be stiffed a bit by this chart since it doesn't take assists into account at all. Chris Paul doesn't even register as a high usage player according to this chart. It's pretty much looking strictly at your value as a scorer, which makes LeBron's placing even more insane considering his assist percentage.

By: 4razr

4razr — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:34:35 +0000

@justin At least he's in the top 50! Nowhere to go but up, baby!

By: justin

justin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:30:15 +0000

Look at where Russ is on that same chart.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:22:39 +0000

Fantastic post over at BlazersEdge about KD

http://www.blazersedge.com/2010/2/9/1302737/how-good-is-kevin-durant

By: josh

josh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:13:05 +0000

I still doubt sam presti lets the main part of his core go his franchise player u guy need to stop listening to the media hes not going anywhere

By: 4razr

4razr — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:54:21 +0000

It’s a huge dilemma. The max contracts signed under this CBA will be anchors around the necks of many a team in the years to come if max salaries and the cap are actually slashed by millions. How do you justify not paying Durant? How do you justify paying him, especially if you are OKC? And what is his market value? If OKC doesn’t sign him under the current agreement, it’s not as though another team would be able to pay him more…. He would probably have to take less to leave, even then, because OKC would still have whatever bonus they could offer their own FA under the new CBA. He would have to be so miffed that he was stiffed that he was willing to leave money on table.

By: girlballer

girlballer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:46:41 +0000

I think that last sentence needs a “would he?” to end it.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:46:05 +0000

If anybody doesnt know KD does not have an opt out clause in his contrac he has team option i dont think sam presti drafted him to let him go three years later