Comments on: Examining The Spurs De-Evolution From A Team Game To A One Man Show

By: Hardwood Paroxysm » Blog Archive » Graphic Offense: A Look At Usage and PER Mid-Season

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:46:16 +0000

[...] how do they look through numbers? Last year in the playoffs I broke down how San Antonio looked in the regular season and post-season with a Parker-heavy attack. I decided to take a similar look [...]

By: Hardwood Paroxysm » Blog Archive » In This Analogy, Ricky Davis Is The Jackass Who Cuts You Off, Then Jacknifes His PT Cruiser Blocking All Lanes

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:46:34 +0000

[...] This whole thing is nothing groundbreaking for most stats guys, when you look at PER and the relationship with Usage. However, the physics application is pretty awesome, and the analogy of cars is something that definitely sparks conversation. Take for example the Blazers, who were the #1 team in offensive efficiency last season, despite Roy not even being top 10 in Usage.Â When you consider their last ranked pace, you have the absolute model here.Â If I’m reading the article right, in this analogy, the Blazers’ city layout would mean that there is one major highway, Roy, and then several other efficient routes that get you where you want to go, without you needing to speed. So you travel the same amount of distance in the exact same time as other teams do while going slower than they have to. The application of multiple routes and the effect on efficiency is something I touched on in the playoffs. [...]

By: Hardwood Paroxysm » Blog Archive » Examining The Magic’s Overall Effort Versus Cleveland’s One Man Show

Tue, 26 May 2009 06:26:56 +0000

[...] in the first round, I took a look at the Spurs’ de-evolution from a team game to a one-man show with Parker. I decided to take a similar look at Orlando and Cleveland, to see what their usage and [...]

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Mon, 04 May 2009 07:49:59 +0000

[...] Si vous voulez les acheter, rendez-vous sur cette page. – Amis des chiffres, et des Spurs, le site Hardwood Paroxysm prouve via une multitude de graphiques que San Antonio est devenu, au fil de la saison, [...]

By: gagnrath

gagnrath — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:23:02 +0000

This is interesting, I’m concerned and curious about how much of this is intentional on the part of the coaching, and how much is people not taking, shots. Bonner has been open fairly often from what I’ve seen and not shooting though Parker kicking out has also been less.

I do think that the spurs should run the offense through duncan a bit more.

By: 48 Minutes of Hell » Blog Archive » The Redemption and Dissolution of a Cliche

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:28:36 +0000

[...] been attempting to rely on the old language when only new language will do. For better or worse, this is not the same Spurs team. I can no longer use the tropes of the last decade as a crutch. As a chronicler of the franchise, [...]

By: Latin_D

Latin_D — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:56:02 +0000

What a great post. I’ll try to use this in future seasons.

What do you use to create the charts? The radar charts in particular. Excel does that?

Congrats.

By: hamahakkimies

hamahakkimies — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:51:35 +0000

Nice stats and analysis!

But is there a reason for re-ordering the players (between regular season and playoffs)?

Admittedly this results in nice shuriken-like radar-graphs, but IMHO it would be more informative to hold the players in the same order or at least order them consistently based on, say, ppg.

By: Heard It Through the Grapevine » The Two Man Game

Heard It Through the Grapevine » The Two Man Game — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:32:24 +0000

[...] Matt Moore does a little diddy on the Spurs and usage rate.Â Parker’s usage and production were expected to jump coming into this series, but Moore’s charts reveal something we’ve been learning slowly over the course of this series: aside from Duncan, he’s been getting absolutely no help. [...]

By: gfckyrslf

gfckyrslf — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:23:30 +0000

That’s some serious stats !

Good read, thanks.