04/15/2008
Yes, I remember that the last post I did was also "only" a links post - that is why I am going to be offering a bit more analysis of the provided links, so you can get your money's worth this time:
Wages of Wins looks at the Cats regression - and blames it on...Raymond Felton. Really - by his stat, WP48 (Wins Produced per 48 Minutes), Raymond has declined from average, to poor, to bad over his 3 seasons. Also, it is noted that Emeka, Carroll, and Gerald all offered less this season - and I can agree with the reasons Berri came to for the 3 except for Gerald. He blamed Gerald's drop in production on injury - but since Gerald's injury woes did not strike until February this year, that does not explain his performance up to then. I looked at this way back in December (see here) and it never really changed this year.
Is Chris Paul bad at defense?. The answer might be yes, after the numbers were looked at. What does this have to do the with the Bobcats, you ask? Well, since my first link dumped on Felton after my post about his offensive shortcomings last week - this post gave me a good opportunity to commend Felton for something. Unlike Paul, with Felton on the court, the Bobcats are actually better off defensively, improving from 108.4 points per 100 poss without him to 106.8 with him on the court. Even better? He does a very solid job on the man he is guarding (when playing the point), according to 82games.com - Felton holds his man to a 45.4% EFG% and a PER of 14.4. Those numbers would put him right at the top of the lists used in the CP3 defense post. Good work, Ray.Click here to comment/view comments for this post.
| bryce adams Says: | "As citizens of the NBA, it falls on the rest of us to help Save the Sonics! I beg you to please post your team/owner's information with the following. Thanks! We Miami Heat fans have put together a proposed plan of action here: http://thesouthfloridafan.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-help-seattle-keep-their-sonics.html It involves this: IMPLORE EVERY NBA MEDIUM TO POST THE ADDRESS OF THEIR OWNERS. IN ADDITION, LETTERS SHOULD INCLUDE SOMETHING LIKE THIS: "As a form of protest, we vow to boycott any game next season in which the Oklahoma City Sonics play, whether it be in our arena or watching it on television." Spread this around as much as you can. It's going to take the other teams to prevent this from happening. Let's save the Sonics!" |
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