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Pels in-game splits are nuts

— For Jrue (@GrahamMcQueen) November 23, 2018

15.8 point difference in net rating from 1st half to 2nd

— For Jrue (@GrahamMcQueen) November 23, 2018

but the D-rating by quarter takes the cake pic.twitter.com/a6qo9zYYwb

— For Jrue (@GrahamMcQueen) November 23, 2018

I've spoken about this before but it's really insane lol.

Breaking a game of basketball down to quarters isn't that telling. Statistics make sure that someone is always going to stand out for this reason or another. The Pelicans are 9th in their conference and that's that.

Art Morte wrote:Breaking a game of basketball down to quarters isn't that telling. Statistics make sure that someone is always going to stand out for this reason or another. The Pelicans are 9th in their conference and that's that.

Jesus talk about making a big deal out of nothing.

I was just pointing the difference between first half and second halfs and used these tweets to explain it.

None of those tweets even mention quarter by quarter lol except the defensive rating ones.

They gotta find a way to start stronger. They are making adjustments well, which is a very good sign, but -8.7 net to start the 1st half, +10.2 to start the 2nd half is crazy. They'd be killing teams if they were at least mediocre in the 1st.

— For Jrue (@GrahamMcQueen) November 23, 2018

Made to make teams seem good tho....  

Besides if you watched the games the eye test breaks it down in much the same way, i was just using them to try and explain it because it's easier.

Trust GL posters to completely miss the point and completely go off the other end as per though....

Is it the lack of bench that’s the reason for the massive disparity? @mole

How do we explain the overall improvement throughout the league this season. Watching Memphis and Clippers now, both with unexpectedly good starts to the season.
Just the offensive rule changes? Does that mean players are naturally more offensively skilled and offensively minded, and defense depends more on coaching?

It’s a small sample size but I’d simply say the league is overall very talented and competitive bar a small handful of trash teams (y’all know who they are).

The hot starts of the have nots is coupled with poorer starts by “better” teams like Houston and overall, making a very fun regular season which is all we can ask for

That and the Curse of Carmelo being lifted from house Rockets to land in a new house (Lakers @freeza)

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
Trust GL posters to completely miss the point and completely go off the other end as per though....

Talk about making a big deal out of nothing. You're pointing out - not for the first time - that the Pelicans do worse in the first half and better in the second. I don't know why commenting on that that it's the overall 48 minutes stretch that matters warrants such a defensive reply. At the end of the day it's a massive 82 game season where the only team-stat that really matters is the table - and it says you're currently 9th.

Oh yea and Duke lost, could only make it 5 games unbeaten
Called it

Art Morte wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
Trust GL posters to completely miss the point and completely go off the other end as per though....

Talk about making a big deal out of nothing. You're pointing out - not for the first time - that the Pelicans do worse in the first half and better in the second. I don't know why commenting on that that it's the overall 48 minutes stretch that matters warrants such a defensive reply. At the end of the day it's a massive 82 game season where the only team-stat that really matters is the table - and it says you're currently 9th.

This is Skip Bayless level analysis

Freeza wrote:

Art Morte wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
Trust GL posters to completely miss the point and completely go off the other end as per though....

Talk about making a big deal out of nothing. You're pointing out - not for the first time - that the Pelicans do worse in the first half and better in the second. I don't know why commenting on that that it's the overall 48 minutes stretch that matters warrants such a defensive reply. At the end of the day it's a massive 82 game season where the only team-stat that really matters is the table - and it says you're currently 9th.

This is Skip Bayless level analysis

These teams are playing practically every other night, it's the overall standings that tell you what you need to know, not smaller dissections of it.

Yeah. Sounds good.

No need to know why the car isn’t running. Only thing important is if it runs or not.

Lakers quietly winning games out there

Lakers aren't very good

Trust the bucks to win by 43 against Portland but lose to Phoenix.

Some things never change. Despite all the change

CBarca wrote:Lakers aren't very good

Trust the bucks to win by 43 against Portland but lose to Phoenix.

Some things never change. Despite all the change

Lakers are very good.

They’re def in the top 8 teams in the league imo. Also most West teams are very good. Aside from GSW all teams are on such an equal playing field this year.

Embiid took just 13 shots in the loss last night. I don't get why they don't feed him more in some games. Not that I watched this game.

Btw does anyone know are Portland actually good or not?

Freeza wrote:Yeah. Sounds good.

No need to know why the car isn’t running. Only thing important is if it runs or not.

Obviously there's room for analyzing teams, players and their performances, but breaking the table down to 1st half table and 2nd half table doesn't provide any more meaningful info than the actual table, imo.

Freeza wrote:

CBarca wrote:Lakers aren't very good

Trust the bucks to win by 43 against Portland but lose to Phoenix.

Some things never change. Despite all the change

Lakers are very good.

They’re def in the top 8 teams in the league imo. Also most West teams are very good. Aside from GSW all teams are on such an equal playing field this year.

Oh my god you took that bait

And yet, you're the one who complains every game on here what a mess the Lakers are

Elsewhere in the NBA:

Higher dimension Kyrie
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqiWdffFXve/

Steph's off court misadventures, the Warriors really are going through a patch of bad luck as of this moment
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqiMWnNnqFG/

El Gunner wrote:

Freeza wrote:

CBarca wrote:Lakers aren't very good

Trust the bucks to win by 43 against Portland but lose to Phoenix.

Some things never change. Despite all the change

Lakers are very good.

They’re def in the top 8 teams in the league imo. Also most West teams are very good. Aside from GSW all teams are on such an equal playing field this year.

Oh my god you took that bait

And yet, you're the one who complains every game on here what a mess the Lakers are

A team with LeBron will always be very good.

My problem is entirely with Luke Walton’s offense and rotations.

Not even baiting

I don't really rate Lakers that highly

CBarca wrote:Not even baiting

I don't really rate Lakers that highly

Lakers beat both Portland and the Suns, so must be better than Bucks

Also this Dwight Howard stuff is wild

Freeza wrote:Also this Dwight Howard stuff is wild

Guy has been out with a butt injury.

Now a trans person has come out saying she's been blackmailed and threatened, while providing proof.

Also said that Dwight likes to be bottom, which relates to his butt injury.

NBA is something else.

Freeza wrote:

CBarca wrote:Not even baiting

I don't really rate Lakers that highly

Lakers beat both Portland and the Suns, so must be better than Bucks

Come on Freeza you can do better

Picked Dwight up in fantasty, reinjures his ass and then all this ffs. Poor decision.

Bucks Spurs game tonight was incredible. Best game I've seen all season.

This might be the weirdest thing ever.

To have this be the first actual top athlete to be known as non-straight guy, and be outed in this way. It's absolutely wild. Or wait. Didn't Ronaldo, Robinho etc. have a similar thing going?

Hopefully some good can come of this, because I see so much transphobic shit right now, when it should be on the threats, violence etc. being hurled towards.

The only thing that's not wrong in this story is the sex. It's just so surreal.