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  1. InstaFace

    Joe Mazzulla officially named head coach

    We also had a 14-9 lead early in Game 2, it's not like we were blown off the court from the tip. It's not a Pollyanna post to say "I don't think we have a beginning-games-flat problem". Nothing in that post suggested things were sunshine and rainbows - we just lost a playoff game at home to an...
  2. InstaFace

    Joe Mazzulla officially named head coach

    They scored the first 17 points of Game 1. Nobody brings it 100%, 100% of the time. But I don't think it's fair to say we have a "Beginning games flat" problem. We were 1st in 1Q scoring margin, IIRC.
  3. InstaFace

    Joe Mazzulla officially named head coach

    Fair enough about the averages and the blowouts. I do think we've seen enough anecdotal evidence that even when our team is in a real game, though, they do slow down as the game goes on. Perhaps once you adjust for single-digit game situations, though, it's not that different from the rest of...
  4. InstaFace

    Joe Mazzulla officially named head coach

    I think it's fair to lay some of the pace-of-play stuff on the coach. We very obviously have a game-management strategy where we start out playing fast early in games, and then slow it down as the game goes on. Didn't someone offer data a few weeks ago that we have one of the fastest paces of...
  5. InstaFace

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    I always figured librarians sold a few things that fell off a truck to make ends meet, but I never imagined they'd be so brazen as to make a competitive sport out of it.
  6. InstaFace

    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    Nobody tell him about the all-NBA teams last year. No but seriously, it would depend a lot on team context for me, there are a lot of ways to frame the question. If I'm starting an expansion team, I take Jaylen every time, because two way wings who can create their own shot are like the first...
  7. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Yep. I stand by that statement. You'd need another angle to disprove the notion that Lowry knocked it free cleanly. As best I can see on that one, he did - chiefly because he's making a poking motion rather than the usual slap motion. Without even accounting for the fact that the amount of...
  8. InstaFace

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    That's a valid perspective in my eyes. I think baseball - the writers and the fans - have gone too far into trying to quantify their way into awards being some sort of objective thing, that there's an equation and you just get your answer and move on. As much as I like right answers (perhaps not...
  9. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    I actually bought that overturn. I understand people trying to stand on "clear and conclusive evidence" principle, but the ball was knocked free cleanly imo, and then the contact that happened during the loose ball was well within what's allowed for a loose ball play. But yes, they got the...
  10. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Should've just made a burner account on Twitter to complain about it.
  11. InstaFace

    The Krafts

    Part of management isn't just getting the right people in the door and empowering them, but also in having the skills to question their thought processes and make sure they're considering things the way you would hope they would. Jeff Bezos is known to grill his top people on big decisions, and...
  12. InstaFace

    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    I went here, and then applied the season filter for 2023-24, which is same as I usually do for LEBRON data. And yet I see minutes counts on that data that do look suspiciously low. Perhaps that has an old version of the dataset, and they haven't pushed the rest of the season to it yet? Are...
  13. InstaFace

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    My exact words were "I wouldn't think it possible - or advisable, at any rate - to hire a coach who has never coached college or the pros." Most people would understand that phrasing to not be an assertion that it has never ever happened, but rather that I'd be surprised. And wouldn't ya know...
  14. InstaFace

    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    Yeah given the years they've put together, Rudy Gobert probably has more of an argument for another DPOY than Bam would to get his first. Bam has never even made all-defense first team. (fake edit: and lo, DARKO has Gobert first in D-DPM, followed by Nurkic, Draymond, Alex Len?!, Hartenstein...
  15. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Down 1 with 13 seconds left, I was so sure we were getting a Maxey buzzer beater for the win. What we got was just about the exact opposite of that. You'd think Jim O'Brien was coaching them - "eh I dunno boys, just go out and sling it". fake edit: oh wow, Jim O'Brien is actually a "senior...
  16. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (4) Cleveland Cavaliers vs (5) Orlando Magic

    Wow. Live by the KG-style "no free shots after the whistle", die by the "no free shots after the whistle". Here it is: https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=326&GameID=0042300132&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Mitchell%2021%27%20Jump%20Shot%20(19%20PTS)
  17. InstaFace

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    "back row Joe" had credentials enough. Really anyone who's been an NBA assistant for a year has credentials enough, if he interviews well then god bless. Go back to the threads here when he was given the job, go back to the start of the current Coach Joe Mazzulla thread when he was given the...
  18. InstaFace

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    I'm sorry, what part of "Mazzulla having assistant roles for years plus a D2 college head coaching job, prior to getting an NBA HC offer" is equivalent to "Redick potentially offered an NBA head coaching job despite never previously receiving a coaching paycheck of any kind"? I'm not a huge...
  19. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Refs:
  20. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    This but Lowry
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