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Pradamaster
I'm a big basketball fan, and I've sadly been obsessed with the decrepit Washington basketball franchise for my entire life. You can imagine how excited I must be knowing that our team is actually above-average now. Web Site: Bullets Forever BallHype Member since Feb. 20, 2007 |
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Is Gilbert Arenas the Most Overrated All-Star in the NBA?
NBA Referee Bet on Games
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Pradamaster Huh? Where? That was just a rant against our youth development system.
This is a big deal of a story, and it's pretty depressing for most fans of basketball. Why are you using this space simply to pimp your own site? This is hardly the right setting for that.
FanHouse Exclusive: Miss Gossip Interviews Greg Oden
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Pradamaster McLean's probably amazed a blogger actually escaped from the special dungeon beneath their parents' basement. Probably didn't think we could talk either.
Word of advice dude. Don't anger the blogging community. You won't like the blogging community when it's angry.
Ball movement is nice and well, but the Wizards' offense isn't better than it was last year.
Their offensive efficiency was 111.1 last year, good for fifth in the league. This year, it's 109.4, good for ninth in the league. There's a somewhat legimitate argument that Gilbert held the ball for too long at times last year, and that made the offense predictable, but on the whole, as great as this additional ball movement looks, it's not making the offense better.
The improvement has come on the other end. Last year, the Wizards' defensive efficiency was 112.5. This year, it's 109.4. Now, one could argue that's also because of Arenas, but they'd be grasping at straws there. A closer look shows that the Wizards' major improvement has actually been on the defensive glass. Last year, they allowed opponents to grab 29% of their missed shots, good for 24th in the league. This year, thanks primairly to improved play by Brendan Haywood, the Wizards are only allowing opponents to grap 24.7% of their missed shots, good for sixth in the league. That is a better indicator of why the Wizards are treading water (and I do say that, because this 9-5 has come against a very easy schedule) without Arenas than pointing to the better ball movement.