“Almonds for sanity”. Brilliant!

cgreene:
@42 It’s funny.This post shows exactly how poor your judgment is as related to the small tweaks that can make a major impact on wins and losses in a basketball game.

So out of the 1400+ 3PA Anthony has accrued in his time in the league, I’m supposed to look at 125 of them and assume that the change is due to the coach? You don’t seem to understand causation and small sample sizes. You see a change in the numbers and you assume that it’s D’antoni’s system that did it. Felton’s 3PT% plummeted when he came to the NYK system. Is that D’antoni’s responsibility too?

And your post demonstrates how you view NBA basketball. It’s different from collegiate and high school ball in that the players are really, really good at basketball. (Well, most of them.) You think that by watching the games, your judgment stands above the stats, but you’re not. I’m not, you’re not, the bloggers on this site are not (and thankfully, they know they’re not), ESPN is not, the coaches are not, and players are not either. Most players are not like Josh Smith in that you can simply say, “Stop taking threes,” and turn them into all-stars. That’s evident in the statistics that show that most coaches do not have a tangible impact on player value. You think they do, but the numbers say otherwise. I know which side I’m taking.

And by the way, Stoudemire posted his lowest WS/48 since he was 20. Career low in TRB%. You think marginally improving his AST% makes up for a .06 drop in TS%? Buddy, you’re wrong.

@ flossy, everything