Wages of Wins Network Weekend Podcast

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Super Stats Team Assemble

• Arturo of Arturo’s Silly Little Stats
• Devin the NBeh? blog
• Dre of Nerd Numbers

Miami vs. Dallas

• Winning game 1 puts Miami in the company of winners. 74% of the time Game 1 winners win the series (according to the stat community on twitter). Of course, the last Dallas-Miami series had a different outcome.
• Miami had some wicked three point shooting. Check out more of the advanced stats here.
• Dallas has some great players in search of a title whereas Miami just has great players.
• Jason Terry might not be the best scoring option for Dallas.
• Would Dirk instead of Bosh been good for Miami?
• Tyson Chandler is helping out Dallas, should Chicago have kept him?
• Jason Kidd is underrated. Seriously underrated.

Winning a Championship = Great?

• On twitter I actually got a little riled at Eric Pincus over this subject.
• Steve Nash doesn’t think so.
• Dave pointed out years ago that the 2008 Celtics would have been an all-time great team with or without a title.

Chicago with a bit of OKC Sprinkled in

• We can blame Arturo for any technical difficulties and think Chicago had a chance. He disagrees.
• Coach Thibodeau played the wrong players in a deciding game. Mike Brown has made similar mistakes.
• Is sitting your starters when they’re in foul trouble? Scorecasting says no.
• Derrick Rose drawing fouls works well. Why didn’t the Bulls keep doing it?
• Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook have both played better in the playoffs. What happened this year?

Best Point Guards of All Time

• Skip Bayless listed his top five point guards. Agree?
• Devin, Mosi and Dre agree with the list for the most part with the surprising absence of Steve Nash from Mosi’s list.
• To be an all-time great, is a long career required?
• How could we forget Mark Jackson? His broadcasting career hasn’t helped.
• Jason Kidd, John Stockton and Magic Johnson ruled the Point Guard position for the last 30 years. Did we jinx Chris Paul?
• Could Charlotte or Los Angeles use John Stockton next season?

Off Season Improvement

• We ended the podcast discussing which team looks poised to improve in the off-season. I double down on Golden State. Devin likes New Jersey and Arturo says Philadelphia.

Enjoy!

-Dre

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