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Re: NBA Finals Game 5: LeBron And Wade Don’t Bring Their A Game, Danny Green Does

ram — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:04:51 -0000

great stuff - Keep up the good work coach Nick I'll be stashing this vid under my mattress

Re: 2013 NBA Finals Game 3: LeBron In His Head, Green & Neal Out Of Theirs

Joe Sack — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:05:30 -0000

great article coach nick, if there someone at sb nation that could make gifs for your text breakdown articles breaking down individual plays like zach lowe on grantland ?

Re: Why Jeremy Lin Can Be The Next Steve Nash

Lin is awesome — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:10:43 -0000

Hes consistent now but what happened to all the crazy shots? The woah-that-was-amazing shots? Linsanity? I wish it would come back

Re: 2013 NBA Finals Game 3: LeBron In His Head, Green & Neal Out Of Theirs

Josh — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:42:01 -0000

"3 straight finals appearances and one title (so far) is almost unparalleled in the history of the NBA."

Bulls? Lakers? Celtics had an eight-peat. It's not unparalleled.

Re: 2013 NBA Finals Game 3: LeBron In His Head, Green & Neal Out Of Theirs

Keyser — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:03:29 -0000

"The Heat’s defense routinely gets out of position to pressure the ball as much as possible. This works against inexperienced teams with poor ball handlers and bad offensive systems, i.e. 20 teams in the league. They have decided that they will out-athlete and out-talent everyone and make no mistake, it has worked all very well the last three years. However, there will always be a team or two that will adjust to this kind of pressure and utilize their ball movement (the pass always travels faster than a person) to generate good shots. The Heat have no other way to play, and I am amazed how Erik Spoelstra has gotten his team to exert so much energy on that end of the court. However, so much of it is wasted as the Spurs continue to use that pressure against them and get great shots."
-from the article
He talks about that in the first few paragraphs after the embedded breakdown video.

Re: 2013 NBA Finals Game 3: LeBron In His Head, Green & Neal Out Of Theirs

Jacob — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:54:11 -0000

Have you heard about this ESPN the Magazine article from Seth Wickersham?
Some of the cultural differences in systems and players sounds like it's relevant to the discussion.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_...

Re: 2013 NBA Finals Game 3: LeBron In His Head, Green & Neal Out Of Theirs

Mat — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:46:30 -0000

The remarks you make about how the Heat have not unified to play true team basketball are very interesting. If this is the case, how would you personally explain their success over the past few years? Is it because of pure star power?

Re: NBA Finals Game 2: How LeBron And The Heat Took Back Control

Johan — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:53:56 -0000

Thanks for the sets breakdown coach. This one is gonna be tight for sure, especially crucial first half for both teams.

Re: NBA Finals Game 2: How LeBron And The Heat Took Back Control

ACEJ — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:16:43 -0000

so professional analysis, i like it

Re: NBA Finals Game 1: How The Heat’s Offense Let Them Down

kiddCharlemagne — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:47:10 -0000

5 outs is used so often because the Heat believe their athleticism is all they need to score

Re: Spurs Three-Point Shooting: Erik Spoelstra’s Worst Nightmare

ricky — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:51:14 -0000

Keep up the good work coach! Im a huge fan and watch all your videos. Great insight

Re: Knicks’ Passing in Game 3 of Knicks v Pacers

jumpshot25 — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:33:23 -0000

Very neat article! The power of stats to help build the game plan. This also points to the old fundamentals of how effective ball movement and player movement leads to effective scoring opportunities. Great job!

Re: Are Kevin Durant and LeBron James Really The Best Scorers In The NBA?

campcamp — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:37:54 -0000

i don't see a problem with his methodology.
and there's nothing wrong with %. It doesn't account for usage but we know who the primary offense is for most players on bad teams. And nick did mention it in the video.

Are you nitpicking just to nit or did you watch the video?

Re: Weird Dog Hopping

∂³∑x² — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:46:20 -0000

Still more hops than Glen Davis.

Re: History Of Olympic Basketball 1960-1972

Denzo — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:13:34 -0000

Why? Sooking doesnt get you the win. Winning does. And thats what the soviets did.

Re: How The Bulls Banged And The Heat Streak Ceased

Roger — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:47:24 -0000

If they were not basketball plays how then are the bulls lauded for this.

Re: Why The Clippers Are Vulnerable: Defending The Three

Justin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:44:32 -0000

As a clippers fan, I'm not ready to give up on the season yet. But if the clippers do lose in the first or second round, they had better fire vinny and get someone better to fix this!

Re: Why The Clippers Are Vulnerable: Defending The Three

Birhat Celik — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:36:49 -0000

Hope the Clippers will get it under control, but really nice article

Re: Kobe Bryant’s 81 vs Michael Jordan’s 69

Bhaumik Patel — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:47:02 -0000

what about the 18 rebounds (7 offensive), 6 assists, 4 steals, and 1 less turnover in those 8 extra minutes. Jalen Rose was guarding Kobe..

Re: 1997 NBA Finals Game 6: Bulls vs Jazz and the No Call That Changed the Series

Dodgson — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:16:04 -0000

Considering the constant illegal defense on the part of the Bulls all night they definitely got the calls. I cannot believe (still... and I thought anti-zone was dumb) that the refs refused to call something pointed out to them in real time about 50 times during a game. Disgusting officiating.... probably as bad as the Sacremento-Lakers fiasco.

Re: How The Spurs Outclassed The Thunder

Dodgson — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:02:36 -0000

I agree... I've felt that ever since the trade. I really thought SA would win last year before Harden and Durant went insane.

Re: How The Spurs Outclassed The Thunder

Dodgson — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:01:52 -0000

Wait.... love his articles? Don't you watch the videos were he breaks down all the plays? He is the only NBA writer since Pruiti got signed by the Thunder who actually does that (they did it differently but I love both of their styles). If you don't recognize that Westbrook makes bad decisions as a PG than you probably defend Kobe/Iverson bad shots as well. There are always better plays to make even if you do pretty well. RW could do better and I really do agree this is a coaching issue... notice that Harden was fine in this offense and if someone simply showed Westbrook how to make wiser plays he might do so more regularly. I agree with Coach Nick... Westbrook is a great player... he's just wasted as a point guard because he makes too many poor decisions. Slide him over to SG and they would be fine.

Re: How The Spurs Outclassed The Thunder

Noway — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:53:57 -0000

I used to love your articles but the more I read, the more I realise how you use/show only the stats to "proof" your opinion but don't make your opinion based on all stats.

At first, you only count shots as a used possesion on offense, which all know isn't anywhere near the truth (Dwight 39 FTA, no used possession in Orlando?). KD had 23 possession, RW 32 which is still a big gap but not as huge as you would like it to be.

Second, you mention the 4 TOV of RW, but "forgot" to mention KDs 5 TOV with way less usage rate? Really?

And last, if RW took "all" the shots like you say, why is it possible that KD had the same amount of rebounds at a position that's supposed to get more rebounds then the point guard?

A little much rambling, but I really don't like it if people just use certain stats to proof their point and not base their opinion on all of them.

And you really hate RW it seems...

Re: How The Spurs Outclassed The Thunder

Jared — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:37:43 -0000

Favored in a playoff series*

Re: How The Spurs Outclassed The Thunder

Jared — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:37:02 -0000

Nice article. I think San Antonio should be favored, I don't think OKC matches up well without Harden.