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thedoper
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Re: Defense

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m4gor wrote:
thedoper wrote:We were dead last in opponents eFG% last year. Through two games we are 1st. ;). We will not stay there but that is an early indicator of improvement I would say. I'm with q, we can only go up from last year.


it is improvement, on the other hand i am pretty sure that LAL (hi Kobe) and DEN will be bottom 5 teams when it comes to eFG%, we need bigger sample


I'm being a little silly. I have been an advocate of statistically significant sample sizes on this site for a while. Those two teams were awful. I don't know if we had any games last year where we held opponents below 50% though.
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Re: Defense

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thedoper wrote:
m4gor wrote:
thedoper wrote:We were dead last in opponents eFG% last year. Through two games we are 1st. ;). We will not stay there but that is an early indicator of improvement I would say. I'm with q, we can only go up from last year.


it is improvement, on the other hand i am pretty sure that LAL (hi Kobe) and DEN will be bottom 5 teams when it comes to eFG%, we need bigger sample


I'm being a little silly. I have been an advocate of statistically significant sample sizes on this site for a while. Those two teams were awful. I don't know if we had any games last year where we held opponents below 50% though.


I was wondering what kind of performances the Wolbes had last year so I looked a bit. The Wolves had 4 games they participated in games where the opposition were under 40% shooting (including back to back games against Washington and Chicago) and had a 2-2 record in those games.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2015/gamelog/
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Re: Defense

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monsterpile wrote:
thedoper wrote:
m4gor wrote:
thedoper wrote:We were dead last in opponents eFG% last year. Through two games we are 1st. ;). We will not stay there but that is an early indicator of improvement I would say. I'm with q, we can only go up from last year.


it is improvement, on the other hand i am pretty sure that LAL (hi Kobe) and DEN will be bottom 5 teams when it comes to eFG%, we need bigger sample


I'm being a little silly. I have been an advocate of statistically significant sample sizes on this site for a while. Those two teams were awful. I don't know if we had any games last year where we held opponents below 50% though.


I was wondering what kind of performances the Wolbes had last year so I looked a bit. The Wolves had 4 games they participated in games where the opposition were under 40% shooting (including back to back games against Washington and Chicago) and had a 2-2 record in those games.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2015/gamelog/


Good research, monster.

Hmm...I'm trying to think what might have happened before those two games against Washington and Chicago to improve our defense so dramatically. I wonder if a certain "overpaid" aging over-the-hill PF might have rejoined the team right before those two games, and completely turned around our defense. Can somebody look it up?
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Re: Defense

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longstrangetrip wrote:
monsterpile wrote:
thedoper wrote:
m4gor wrote:
thedoper wrote:We were dead last in opponents eFG% last year. Through two games we are 1st. ;). We will not stay there but that is an early indicator of improvement I would say. I'm with q, we can only go up from last year.


it is improvement, on the other hand i am pretty sure that LAL (hi Kobe) and DEN will be bottom 5 teams when it comes to eFG%, we need bigger sample


I'm being a little silly. I have been an advocate of statistically significant sample sizes on this site for a while. Those two teams were awful. I don't know if we had any games last year where we held opponents below 50% though.


I was wondering what kind of performances the Wolbes had last year so I looked a bit. The Wolves had 4 games they participated in games where the opposition were under 40% shooting (including back to back games against Washington and Chicago) and had a 2-2 record in those games.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2015/gamelog/


Good research, monster.

Hmm...I'm trying to think what might have happened before those two games against Washington and Chicago to improve our defense so dramatically. I wonder if a certain "overpaid" aging over-the-hill PF might have rejoined the team right before those two games, and completely turned around our defense. Can somebody look it up?


Correlation not causation. ;)
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