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What to Expect in Remaining Part of the Season
This is a guest post by NBAstuffer reader, William Rogers. He predicted things that are likely to happen in the second half of the season. NBA regular season lasts for 25 weeks. Since we have just passed the 15 weeks mark, let’s list what we would expect in the remaining 10 weeks. The battle for a playoffs spot will come …
Goodbye Willie The King Solomon
Dear Willie, I wish you the very best. We greatly appreciate what you did for Fenerbahce in the last 2 years. You’ve deserved making it to be an NBA legend and the Raptors seems to be the right team. Either playing at the point or at the two, I strongly believe that you will get enough playing time to prove …
Offense or Defense? Which One Helps NBA Teams Win?
The legendary Alabama coach Paul Bryant once said: “Defense wins championships“. We wanted to see if this is true for basketball as well. In the context of professional basketball, we have another saying in the NBA, “Good defense create good offense”, which also would lead a team to victory. That being said, let’s analyze the theory that suggests defense wins …
Analytics Movement in the NBA
Analytics in sports, also known as Moneyball, is the ability to act in the context of using data. The old school method, scouts measuring talent by watching, a.k.a. the “eye-test” didn’t die. But now it should have gained an unlikely ally. And there’s no doubt; as “big data” influences decisions on and off the court, the entire basketball operations department …
Four Factors
Four Factors are the box score derived metrics that correlate most closely with winning basketball games. These factors also identify a team’s strategic strengths and weaknesses. Four factors can be applied to both a team’s offense and defense, hence it gives us eight factors. 1) Team’s Own Effective Field Goal Percentage 2) Team’s Own Turnover Percentage 3) Team’s Own Offensive …