Yes but I hope notOriginally Posted by Perth_Hornet
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Yes but I hope not
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DJ Stephens can touch the top of the backboard.
Jimmer needs to make better than 2-7 and 1-4 from 4 to enter rotation.
Pelicans 7 straight losses to Mavs. Hope this trend doesn't continue.
Sounded like all the starters were kind of just lunching jumpers, presumably to avoid injury.
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Mavericks 85 - 88 Pelicans Final
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4 straight pre-seasons wins against castrated teams. But?
our starters are shooting poorly
The only thing worse than NBA preseason is NFL preseason but only because NFL are full price tickets and NBA are discounted or free. Let the games begin!!!
I think the startes weren't playing serious Reke shot 4 3's and Jrue barely touched the ball.
1-6
Hope same for the bench
Is it optimism or . . . (Puts glasses on)realism.
Doubt it, the bench looks horrible.
Because his career avgs per 36 are 18/5/5 on 45%
Ok someone who watched the game help bring me back from the ledge. Because based on the stat line we struggled against the Mavericks scrubs and our starters - outside of Davis - looked like **** and our bench seems to be getting worse from game to game.
Plus I thought we were gonna be resting our starters?
He did have 7 points on 7 shots. Not great but not terrible. Does anyone have his pre season stats handy? I know he has't played great the last couple of games but there really wasn't anyway for him to stay as hot as he had been.
Oh and no, I don't think Jimmer should start over Tyreke.
Per 36 is totally useless. It's an estimate not reality
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It's not useless if you're a proven NBA player who put up 20/5/5 when playing 35+ a night and played less since. When starting last year towards the end Reke again was putting up similar numbers.
It's only useless when you dont know how to utilize that stat. For Jimmer it would be useless. Same for Rivers. There's nothing stopping Reke from putting up 18/7/5 if healthy and with shooters around him. He'll also get better looks at the rim with Jrue/Ryno out there and the attention AD draws.
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That last shot by Anthony Davis took Durant 5 seasons to master, he looking like Dirk.
Ahhhh, not this again. There is no estimating with per 36. It's a simple average of production per 36 minutes on the court. It IS reality, lol.
I used to live in New Orleans.
I watched Jeff all through his time at KU, and I'm really pulling for him to stick somewhere in the NBA. Unfortunately, I think he is what he is as a basketball player at this point, and I'm not sold that he'll ever be a contributor for the Pelicans.
It's very deceptive. The more minutes a player gets, the more their per36 drops. Especially when looking at bench players.
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But they are not talking about a bench player. They are talking about a guy who has averaged over 33 minutes per game for his career. So to quote per36 stats on a player like that isn't unreasonable or "not reality".
It's all about how per36 is being used. If the argument was talking a guy who gets 10mpg and projecting per36 then yeah that's where most of us start to disagree or trash per36.
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