I think you’re forgetting that like many fallacies in sports the “hot hand” is fun to talk about and believe in so we should all pretend it’s real to make life that much more exciting.

Agreed. What i was thinking of is the idea that shooters can “shoot their way” out of a slump. Which basically means if they keep shooting they are probably going to get back to their mean performance. Instead if you aren’t taking those shots you have no chance to.

Why? He was the closest of any predictor.

Sure enough. Also I’m not sure how real momentum is.

Is Steph’s output being down a side effect of the Durant signing? I haven’t seen enough games this year to know. In previous years though he could shoot himself out of a slump. Now if he misses a few shots those next shots are going to Durant?

It’s an NBA-style move that’s drawing comparisons to what Sam Hinkie did with The Process in Philadelphia.

k9 on k2 hangs 10, film at 11.

He’s the sports editor of FiveThirtyEight, you great big goof; he’s about as credible an authority on basketball analytics as you’ll find in sports media. And as for the stat, the NBA itself tracks the effect passers have on their teammates’ shooting percentages in multiple ways; all that information is available on…

...What did you think this was going to be an article about?

That was the same approach to testing at Prime Prep as well.

It may have been the biggest crowd ever going by jeans size.

Are you thinking of Adrian Peterson? Different guy.

Phil Jackson should be happy with this “I’m going to try” angle.

“Van Helsing staked pain in me.” - Dracula

Right, except that’s not the news or the point of mentioning the index. The reason it’s noted is the extremes (unseen in nearly 70 years) of the index. We don’t just seem more divided, we are, historically so.

One wackadoo agent in a market != market value.

It’s too bad Dallas didn’t trade Bogut to Washington, so he could finally get to the bottom of the Pizzagate scandal.

“The Pile of Deuces”?

Seriously, can any of you even imagine a world in which poor people got to eat but we didn’t have Vanderbilt university? Then who would come in last in the SEC?

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