Richard Yannow
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Mostly tweeting about basketball from a stats-oriented perspective. Warriors fan. Interested in evidence-based policy, effective altruism, and math.
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Reminder: This blindside hit injured Morris. He missed the next 4+ months. Jokic was suspended one game.
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Jordan Poole just finished a playoff run with a .654 TS% on 24.5 USG% at age 22. He shot 63% on twos as a 6-4, 194 lb guard!
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Lakers fan tries to discredit Celtics' titles by posting a pre-shot-clock era clip and arguing that titles from that era shouldn't count. Removing pre-shot clock titles lowers the Lakers' count from 16 to 11 and lowers the Celtics' count from 17 to... still 17.
This is what the NBA looked like when the Celtics won most of their titles
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@lukeisamazing
@LucyXIV
To be clear, that description is from an answerer to the question, not from the asker. (It's like 12th answer down for me but ctrl-f for the name works).
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@daveweigel
Hillary should start releasing all of her policy proposals as "hacked audio". Maybe then people would actually listen to them.
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Make no mistake. Golden State has absolutely dominated this game. The officials giving Jokic 18 FTs has made the scoreboard look close, but based on the actual play by both teams, GS has completely outplayed them. Not even close.
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- Harden kicks forward into Draymond.
JVG: You gotta protect the players. Give him 3 FTs!
- Kawhi throws Looney out of bounds, breaking his collarbone. Given an and-1.
JVG: Wow, so strong!
- Danny Green hipchecks Klay on a 4Q three, injuring his hamstring.
JVG: I blame Klay.
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Most conference finals minutes for a 19-year-old, all-time:
1. Kobe Bryant, 87 min
2. Moses Moody, 39 mins
3. Jonathan Kuminga, 15 mins
Nobody else with more than 5.
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Grayson Allen injured Alex Caruso with this hit. Caruso broke his wrist and missed two months. Allen was suspended one game.
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Dillon Brooks broke Gary Payton's elbow with this hit. Payton missed a month in the playoffs. Brooks was suspended one game.
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Imagine if your starting PF got suspended for a Finals Game just because he got upset that the opponent threw him down and taunted him while refs ignored it. That'd be a gross miscarriage of justice.
To review:
1) The refs escalated a situation by kicking Tristan out for nothing
2) stood and watched while Draymond taunted TT and did nothing
3) Tristan lost cool and is now in danger of missing Game 2 while responding to taunting.
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Just once I want to hear Steve Javie go "you're right, they missed it." Just be honest.
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I don't ask for a lot, but if Steph could at least get the whistle that Garrison Matthews gets, that would be really nice.
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By comparison: Draymond did not grab Rudy and throw punches. Draymond pulled Rudy off of his teammate, but did not injure him or attempt to. This is objectively way less severe than the other incidents.
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Serge Ibaka grabbed Marquese Chriss by the neck, shoved him up against the stanchion, and threw punches at his head. He was suspended three games.
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Breen: "Ball is kicked, that should be a kicked ball!" ...3 by James in transition.
Doris: "That's been the issue for the Warriors, turnovers and transition points".
But like, you understand that that was not a legit turnover, right? The issue there is a blown call, not a TO.
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Dear god, that's the worst call after a challenge I've seen all year. Redick is 100% right. Welcome to the Warriors' season.
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While we're celebrating Draymond, the greatest steal I've ever seen, also at home against the Hawks in the clutch:
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One underappreciated key to the Warriors' success this series: their 37 total turnovers in the Finals were the fewest they've had in *any* 4-game stretch in over a decade.
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Holy shit. What a game, what a comeback. Winning in the road, with this many injuries, against a great team with this officiating against them: those three minutes are up there in the pantheon as maybe the best few minutes in GS history.
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This is literally the 10th game this season the Warriors have lost by a single point after being screwed out of at least a half dozen on blown calls. No exaggeration. This team should be 29-14 right now. Correct a few of the most egregious calls and they would be.
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Holy shit, the NBA is a fucking joke. Guess Draymond should've thrown some punches at Gobert's head, then he'd only get 3 games instead of 5.
The NBA is suspending Golden State’s Draymond Green for five games, source tells ESPN. Significant hit for the Warriors.
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29 Oct 2014:
This Curry-Iguodala-Klay-Green-Bogut lineup isn't bad
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If Russ got refereed the way Curry has been, he'd shoot 30% and average 8 TOs a game. This is embarrassing for the NBA. So many blown calls.
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I love how even in our darkest moments, Cavs fans are here to remind us that even in the one year they did win, we were dominating them in the healthy half of the series, we had more wins than any other team has ever had, and our star had a better season than their star ever had.
Even if the Warriors lose this series against a hobbled Chris Paul, at least it’s not as bad as the time they blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals after winning 73 games with the first unanimous MVP.
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JVG insinuating that Klay hurt himself by selling the contact is one of the most insulting things I've heard an announcer say, and said about the least likely target for it. The crew didn't do him favors by showing the worst angle, but still: a man with integrity would apologize.
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This is really ugly. The commentary, the crowd reaction, everything. Shameful. The KD play had the excuse of "we just scored a huge basket, that's what they were celebrating", but this is gleefully celebrating an elbow to the face while down 30.
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Highest TS% in a playoff run with at least 20% usage and 500 minutes. Whole lot of legends there. Not a lot of guys doing it under age 25.
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Sounds like Draymond and Steph said "no more 19-year-olds". Have to wonder if this also is why Lee and Bjelica got all the minutes after the main 6 guys; they were the most veteran guys left on the bench.
Mike Brown on the decision to start Kevon Looney: “It was Draymond’s call. Draymond and Steph.”
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Most points in a game with 2 or fewer FTA:
1. Klay Thompson, 54, tonight.
2. Klay Thompson, 52, 10/29/18.
3. Stephen Curry, 51, 2/25/16.
#HonestBasketball
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Stephen Curry road elimination games in the Kerr era:
2016 G6 @ OKC: 31-10-9, .597 TS%, +12, W
2018 G7 @ HOU: 27-9-10, .614 TS%, +13, W
2019 G5 @ TOR: 31-8-7, .604 TS%, -2, W
2023 G7 @ SAC: 50-8-6, .622 TS%, +25, W
Averages 34.7-8.7-7.5 on .611, 4-0, total of +48.
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Draymond Green is now +981 on the year, the highest single-season plus-minus in the 23 seasons we have data.
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It's not the story tonight, but: the refs were one-sided enough that the Warriors needed a 20 to 8 3PT disparity to win by 1. An extra 36 points from deep, and they needed every one of them. I know people want new blood at the top, but this is terrible. NBA fans deserve better.
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35-footers at the buzzer to silence the OKC crowd will never ever get old.
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@dezkuma
Or Grayson Allen and Dillon Brooks? This isn't about Jokic getting off easy, the NBA has generally been consistent about these things in a way that the guys frothing at the mouth for a huge Draymond suspension are ignoring.
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Suns eating the Warriors' lunch in terms of signing minimum guys. One big reason why: it's way easier to get vets to sign if you can offer them minutes, and GS with 9 established core guys looks way different on that front than Phoenix with 4.
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Kevin Durant averaged 28.8 ppg this Finals. The highest TS% ever in a Finals when averaging at least that many points:
1. Kevin Durant, 2017, 35.2 pts, .698 TS%
2. Kevin Durant, 2018, 28.8 pts, .654 TS%
3. Kevin Durant, 2012, 30.6 ppg, .650 TS%
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Atrocious officiating this q. Kuminga and Steph have both had to go back up and create a second shot after getting blatantly fouled the first time. The Brown possession is a travel or jump ball 100% of the time, and everyone in the building could see it plain as day.
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LeBron is unreal. He was an MVP candidate while every other current star was still in high school. Still averaging a trip-dub in the finals.
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Kevon Looney is such an elite post defender. He's getting to that Draymond level, where opposing stars keep testing him, and the Warriors are happy to let them do it, because they've seen him shut that down for close to a year now.
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If you're wondering why Cavs fans were complaining so much about the previous two games, when missed calls were basically even, it's because they're used to gifts like this once or twice a Finals. 22 1st q FTs in 2017 game 4, Steph fouled out of 2016 G6, Draymond suspended G5.
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@johnhollinger
John, he got second-team All-NBA. Hard to name a more egregious underrating this year.
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That stat Breen cited is incredible: Curry has made 76 straight 4th Q and OT FTs in playoff games, Incredible consistency at the end of big games, hasn't missed one since 2015. Curry's longest normal FT streak is 54, for comparison.
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For all the talk about how Cousins' move ruined the league, or KD before him: Looney was a
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pick, then a FA who GSW legally couldn't offer above the min. McKinnie was a training camp invite. Bell was the 38th pick, sold for cash. Other teams can only blame themselves for that.
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Manu is one of the only guys in the league crazy enough to go for that block in that situation. And he's still good enough to pull it off.
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Portland is 4-19 against Golden State the past four years. That includes 2-12 in games KD didn't play.
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Last time the Warriors started the Curry-Klay-Iguodala-Green-Bogut lineup: Game 7 of the 2016 WCF vs OKC. Two of the biggest wins in this run's history.
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That is the worst-officiated minute of basketball I've seen in a long time. Five gift points for Harden, then GS gets fouled three times on one possession, no call.
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@ThompsonScribe
Yikes. Best wishes to Steve. Some things are bigger than basketball, and just hoping he can get back to living a healthy life.
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@jbarro
I don't generally believe in retributive justice, but Mitch McConnell deserves an eternal hell of having his every political goal destroyed while he futilely yells "but what about the process?" to an indifferent audience. He's done more to damage it than anyone in today's world.
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@NBACouchside
It's really kicked into high gear since the missed call against the Celtics and the accompanying media cycle. They were first before then too, but disparity since has been insane.
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For comparison, other efficient guards' best 2P% in a playoff run:
Steph .564
Kobe .532
MJ .540
Magic .567
Nash .567
And JP just had a playoff run at .627. His first step and finishing ability is just special.
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@PDChina
This is pretty crazy because cats aren't known to pass the mirror test. I guess the main alternate explanation would be that the cat knows they're looking at something really weird, so they're checking with their owner for whether they should be freaking out?
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There's no more fitting end to this series than Draymond Green hitting a three, having it be counted as 2, and that being the title-deciding point. Congrats to Marc Davis on his NBA Championship. He really earned it.
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It's seriously time to talk about KD as one of the best Finals performers ever. His career finals averages:
32 ppg on .670 TS%, 55/43/91 splits. All of that while matching up against LeBron James (on both ends).
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Draymond's averages in 8 playoff games vs. Por: 18.1 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 7.9 apg, 1.9 spg, 3.7 bpg, 2.4 3pm/g, 2.2 to/g. Absolutely dominant.
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@drichardbailey
@nba_paint
The "fun fact" is also just not true. Boston has 17 titles. Draymond had 37 points in the series. He scored 20 just in the last two games.
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Second time in a couple weeks a California team has come into Boston and just gotten absolutely robbed of a win by blown calls.
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I just feel for KD. He's been balling out all playoffs, really staking his claim as the best player in the world, and then this happens at the worst time. Really hope it's not severe, and his teammates can pick him up so that he can make it back on the floor.
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Klay had one unassisted basket all night. This was the most in-the-flow-of-the-offense 60-point game you'll ever see.
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7 and 14 is one of the better outcomes possible. There was a 2.4% chance of GS moving up at all, and 18% chance of Minnesota conveying 4 or 6, but the other ~80% was this outcome or worse. I'll take it.
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Been one of Kuminga's best games of the year. Been playing with force offensively all night in a way the team really needs.
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@WarriorsMuse
This is one of those stats that sounds more impressive when you say "each time" instead of "both times".
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Warriors without KD basically need monster games from all of their stars, without allowing them to the opponent. Steph and Dray did that every game vs POR. Tonight, Steph had to carry the offense alone, Siakam was incredible, and the officiating skewed it pretty hard for TOR too.
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There's the signature playoff performance we wanted to see from Steph. Greatest game of his career.
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It's kinda nuts how Jae Crowder literally just tackled Draymond in the lane in the middle of a play and both the refs and announcers just ... ignored it. Feels like June 2016.
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Omri Casspi made more threes at Oracle in the 2015-16 season as a member of the Kings (12 in two games) than he did in the entire season as a Warrior, home or away (10 total for the season)
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When a win clinches a playoff spot, but you need 34 rebounds in 2 games to average a triple-double:
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I saw about 100x more about protecting the players on here after Hou G1, when Harden sometimes landed in the vicinity of GS players, than I have after this game, when two Warriors got actual injuries as a direct result of uncalled TOR fouls. This crew shapes narrative everywhere.
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JVG: "A great seal by Irving"
Replay, literally half a second later: Kyrie shoving Klay away with two hands to prevent the steal.
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This season has been a test of resiliency. How do you retain trust in yourself when the record says one thing and the caliber of play on the floor says the opposite? This is a championship-caliber team and would easily be 20-10 right now with an average whistle. Trust in that.
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A lot of people are saying this is confusing. (They're not wrong!)
Alternate format: here's a flowchart.
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It's been an absolute pleasure watching LeBron play basketball for the past 15 years. He doesn't appear to be near done, he's still the best in the league, but... 15 heavy years. Logically, feels like we should be getting ready for the end. Hope it's not coming just yet.
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Death, taxes, and Curry being put into foul trouble when the Warriors have a series lead in Cleveland.
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@AmznMovieRevws
Reviewer is 100% right. The movie is appalling torture porn wrapped up in a "kids' holiday movie" package.
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Top +/- totals since 93-94. Draymond now the first player ever to top +1000. Klay joins him and Steph in the top 10.
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@DrewShiller
@GrantLiffmann
That last gesture from Steph looks like the "take a foul" gesture, like "hey, get me into the game".
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Curry numbers to look for vs MEM:
41 pts for 30 ppg
8 3PM for 400
At most 6 more FG missed than made for 50/40/90
& the big one:
1 W for 73.
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What a week: CLE, OKC, at HOU. 3-0, +73. Biggest week of the regular season for the Warriors, and they absolutely owned it. Wow.
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@orynthiablue
@moxdzn
@TheMMQBL
It's way above the character limit for a tweet and the font is too small. I'm no fan of Shaun King, but this is just a fake tweet.
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Draymond Green moved into the starting lineup April 27, 2014. The Warriors haven't lost 4 out of any 7 games since, playoffs included.
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@molly_knight
For those who don't remember, this is how Ruf got his first strike in that at-bat.
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The greatest Lakers dynasty of all time. 5 titles in 6 years.
#99
is the only Lakers player ever to be the best player on 5 title teams.
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Ready for Sunday?
Highest ppg all-time in Game 7s (min 2 games)
1. Stephen Curry, 34.5 ppg
2. LeBron James, 34.4
3. Michael Jordan, 33.7
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@ideafaktory
@antoniogm
I know that's the current game. That's like saying the colonies were "whining" about taxation without representation and not understanding the game. They fully understood that the rules of the current game declared them second-class, and they said "fuck this game".
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I didn't realize how incredible this pass was until the rewatch. Wow.
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@bballbreakdown
Between that call, and watching the Embiid charge through Smart be confirmed on replay, feels pretty damn clear that there's a different set of rules for GS than for everyone else.
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