Nemesis?
Not-so-much-esis.
posted by VMM at 9:31 PM
May 12, 2016
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FiveThirtyEight got it mostly right:
If there’s good news for the Thunder...it’s that Westbrook and Durant have scored just as efficiently against tough defenses in the playoffs as they have against weaker ones. And it may be because of their collective ability to knock down difficult shots.
Durant, for instance, frequently knocks down shots few other players can consistently make. As a result, he ranks as the NBA’s third-best shotmaker according to quantified shot quality (qSQ), a new SportVU-based statistic that measures the difficulty of each shot by accounting for where the shot was taken, the proximity of the defender and other variables. As a team, the Thunder were the fourth-best shot-making squad, adjusted for the quality of their looks. They don’t always take good shots — as an out-of-control Dion Waiters drive, or a pull-up three-pointer by Westbrook attests — but they’re still better than most at making them.
Also: Popovich said the regular season was meaningless. He was right.
Against the power of the Warriors, there is no victory.
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