16 Months Ago, dberri from dberri (WordPress) says (in Are we just talking about practice?) Before Allen Iverson came to town the Detroit Pistons were undefeated.  In the ten games with “The Answer” the Pistons have been 5-5.  The story told by the Pistons to explain this outcome is that the team simply hasn’t found the right “chemistry”.  Here is how Iverson described the situatio...

18 Months Ago, dberri from dberri (WordPress) says (in Beat LA? Dream On) Table One: The LA Lakers in 2007-08

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Finally, A Guide to Evaluating Models contains useful hints on how to interpret and evaluate statistical models. Beat LA. If you lived in Boston or Detroit - or any team playing the Lakers in the 1980s (other than

And dberri from dberri (WordPress) says (in Beat LA? Dream On) If you lived in Boston or Detroit - or any team playing the Lakers in the 1980s (other than the Clippers) - this is a cheer you often heard.   Magic Johnson, James Worthy, and the entire Showtime cast were clearly the enemy.  And five times in the 1980s, the enemy took the title (yes, I am a Piston...

19 Months Ago, dberri from dberri (WordPress) says (in The Setting Suns) Once upon a time Shaquille O'Neal and Grant Hill were two of the most dominant players in the game.  Ten years ago (the 1997-98 season) Grant Hill produced 16.7 wins for the Detroit Pistons.  That same season, Shaquille O'Neal posted a 0.311 WP48 [Wins Produced per 48 minutes] for the LA Lakers...

20 Months Ago, dberri from dberri (WordPress) says (in Chauncey Billups and Isiah Thomas) Table Two: The Detroit Pistons in 2007-08

Table Three: Comparing Chauncey Billups, Isiah Thomas, and Allen Iverson

Chauncey Billups: 90.9 Wins Produced, 0.181 WP48

Isiah Thomas: 97.4 Wins Produced, 0.132 WP48

Chauncey Billups: 16.0 Wins Produced, 0.304 WP48 [2007-08]