Re: Dr. Jack disses Cs potential and PP

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Danny Ainge,

Why in the name of Linus and Lucy haven't you hired this person??? She's 
the only person I know of to make sense of NBA math.

She even made sense out of BEAGLE math!!


At 06:01 PM 2/11/2004, Kim Malo wrote:

>At 03:56 PM 2/11/2004, Berry, Mark  S wrote:
>>I'm a Raef fan and a fan of the Antoine trade, but I'll freely admit
>>that if all we get from Raef is what we got this season, then he'll be
>>overpaid and have little value around the league. But I think he'll
>>bring much more to the team than that when he's healthy. Not only will
>>he be a better player with healthy knees, but he won't be competing with
>>the early-season Vin Baker for playing time. How valuable would a
>>healthy Raef be to this team right now? Does anyone think Walter would
>>be playing 40 mpg if Raef was healthy?
>
>With all the talk we always have about rebounding problems, no one has 
>mentioned some stats that back this up. It's actually something the radio 
>broadcasters regularly discuss in general terms whenever considering 
>Raef's injury and its effect. I've been importing all the boxscores into a 
>database (yes, I've already been told by friends that I'm such a geek. 
>OTOH, the individual and team data's there if anyone else wants any data 
>analysis run - feel free to just ask), and so I ran the numbers to see how 
>true it was. Raef's last game was 12/11. Our average total rebounds per 
>game is down 3.75 since then (total rebounds = team rebounds + assigned 
>off and def boards). The difference isn't team rebounds - those have been 
>almost the same. It's clearly in the individual player stats. And the 
>biggest difference is in the defensive boards - almost 3 per game.
>
>Kim
>

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