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More importantly Chris Paul even carries the ball while dribbling just like the real chris paul

woww the player movement this year looks incredible. I think it's funny though they still haven't fixed the flub on Jordan's jersey # for the covershot yet. Am I the only one who realizes he wore 23 and not 32?

Eric Maynor will join a number of NBA stars in the Lockout League.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/sports/basketbal...

Best Saturday Morning Cartoon on DT EVER.

There was an Adjusted +/- study that included coaches that said that Brooks has been one of the coaches with the best positive impacts on team performance. But that study relied heavily on comparing him to PJ Carelismo and may not fully capture the impact of player development from those early years under PJ to now. An overall coach rating could blend these 2 ratings and maybe others.

Among top contenders the Thunder had one of the highest levels of usage by mainline players with TS% above 55% but one of the very lowest levels of elite eFG% shooters amongst that subset of players. OKC and Chicago were both clearly outclassed on eFG% by Dallas and Miami.

Harden is a elite scorer not an elite shooter, at least yet. His mid-range game last season was average to below average. He is only about 75th in the league on 3 pt attempts per minute and was a bit below league average on 3 pt efficiency. The Thunder need Cook and Mohammed from a eFG% perspective. Westbrook was 13th lowest on eFG% amongst the 150 players in the league who played 25+ minutes per game for the majority of the season. They probably will have trouble advancing further if both Westbrook and Maynor continue shooting from the field they way they do right now unless there is a significant upgrade somewhere else.

It appears Scott Brooks had one of the lowest 2010-11 regular season correlations between the minutes that lineups played and their weighted Net Ratings among the teams who made the playoffs. http://www.hickory-high.com/?p=2006 To see that, sort the first table by season. He was basically right smack in the middle this season= worse than all other playoff coaches, better than all but 2 of the also-rans. According to this analysis his lineup utilization was much better in 2009-10.

@ Thomas
depends how good Royce is... He Got Game?

@ gr8ball83
How about every game on the schedule gets played with the respective TrueHoop/SB Nation blogger playing as their team?

The attention to detail is amazing. I especially love that guys were sort of leaning as the ball was bouncing around on the rim, trying to will it in and holding the follow through. And yes, that Westbrook dunk looked exactly like Russell.

I feel like every game that's missed should be simulated live to replace the broadcast. Records count, as long as the Thunder win every game.