01-05-2020, 08:57 PM
Ha, I get called worse than Eeyore at work most days so I’m definitely not offended by it, more so pointing it out as when people start some sort of name calling they are often letting emotion affect their arguments. I’m not sure what points you’ve really made other than the team isn’t healthy so reactions to recent play are overreactions, and I thought I had addressed those. I think Ive tried to take a pretty level headed approach to evaluating the situation and addressed the fact that I don’t think health is such an issue that it negates everything here, but there is some degree of irrationality just stating there’s nothing to worry about and it’s not even worth discussing.
https://stats.nba.com/teams/clutch-advan...NET_RATING&dir=-1
Here’s team by team Clutch Stats if you’re willing to look at them, and they aren’t very favorable to us.
We’ve played 35 games with a 22-13 record, yet are 8-11 in games with clutch situations. So yes, it’s true that we’ve been better than teams a lot to the point we don’t even have a close game at the end with 14 such wins, and have been in most games with only 2 such losses. However, that still leaves over half the games we’ve been a team with a losing record with advanced stats that explain a lot of it. We’ve had a pretty healthy team for much of the season so there’s still a lot of games in that sampling even if you want to discount some so you can still learn a lot from it, even the recent stuff IMO. So I hope I’m answering your question, but it’s not like we are “more clutch” because we make clutch situations happen infrequently as that hasn’t really been the case even when healthy. We might avoid clutch situations more when we’re healthy because we click more, but they were still happening often enough and we weren’t performing great then either. These have been issues throughout the season, we’ve just seen more of a cluster recently rather than sprinklings throughout.
Also worth pointing out the obvious, but even still, we’re far more likely to have games with clutch situations than without in the playoffs, which is why I think it matters and brought it up.
If you think there’s nothing to discuss, fine. Some people might like to discuss why in these situation things like why does our shotmaking drop off so much, why do we turn the ball over more, why aren’t we rebounding as well, why can’t we make FTs (not necessarily just a clutch issue), does RCs burn through his TOs too early (personally I thought his TO call last night was just fine while others may disagree), etc.
There’s a lot of smart Mavs fans on this board, many much smarter than me when it comes to basketball, and I’d love to hear opinions/analysis and what people think the Mavs will do work on things, cause I know RC isn’t just shrugging his shoulders saying, “well we aren’t healthy so whatever.”
https://stats.nba.com/teams/clutch-advan...NET_RATING&dir=-1
Here’s team by team Clutch Stats if you’re willing to look at them, and they aren’t very favorable to us.
We’ve played 35 games with a 22-13 record, yet are 8-11 in games with clutch situations. So yes, it’s true that we’ve been better than teams a lot to the point we don’t even have a close game at the end with 14 such wins, and have been in most games with only 2 such losses. However, that still leaves over half the games we’ve been a team with a losing record with advanced stats that explain a lot of it. We’ve had a pretty healthy team for much of the season so there’s still a lot of games in that sampling even if you want to discount some so you can still learn a lot from it, even the recent stuff IMO. So I hope I’m answering your question, but it’s not like we are “more clutch” because we make clutch situations happen infrequently as that hasn’t really been the case even when healthy. We might avoid clutch situations more when we’re healthy because we click more, but they were still happening often enough and we weren’t performing great then either. These have been issues throughout the season, we’ve just seen more of a cluster recently rather than sprinklings throughout.
Also worth pointing out the obvious, but even still, we’re far more likely to have games with clutch situations than without in the playoffs, which is why I think it matters and brought it up.
If you think there’s nothing to discuss, fine. Some people might like to discuss why in these situation things like why does our shotmaking drop off so much, why do we turn the ball over more, why aren’t we rebounding as well, why can’t we make FTs (not necessarily just a clutch issue), does RCs burn through his TOs too early (personally I thought his TO call last night was just fine while others may disagree), etc.
There’s a lot of smart Mavs fans on this board, many much smarter than me when it comes to basketball, and I’d love to hear opinions/analysis and what people think the Mavs will do work on things, cause I know RC isn’t just shrugging his shoulders saying, “well we aren’t healthy so whatever.”