Prokorov wrote:Hello Brooklyn wrote:Ok I'm done with this conversation lol.
The results of a process do not always correlate with the mechanisms that brought them to be.
This was one of my first lessons in the Logic 101 course I took at college.
If you cant understand that, then theres no point in me explaining it to you.
you might want to ask for a refund on that degree then.
that isnt the way basketball ball works. you cant throw out the entire 47 minutes and and 58 seconds and say "it was all luck". Cavs missed tons of shots. they also went up 10-12 thought the game was over and took their foot off the gas. pacers played as well as they could and still lost.
they got swept. they got their faces bashed in. they couldnt steal 1 game despite cleveland coming out of their regular season hibernation. Hell the pacers nearly missed the playoffs all together where the season woudlnt even have mattered.
For someone who touts watching game tape and going beyond box score metrics to try to find a more accurate measurement of player value, it is quite baffling to see this reductionist stance that all 4-0 series (or any matching win-loss result) are created equally and not go deeper than win-loss record to make your case. Isn't this what happens when we discuss the apparent ineffectiveness of Brook Lopez style of play, which can't be grasped when looking at traditional defensive metrics?
Hello Brooklyn is correct. No, he doesn't need a refund on his degree LOL.
Right or wrong, you have discredited the accomplishments of the Pacers (and thereby their best player, Paul George) for years. You called them a fraud team back when they won 56 games and were the #1 seed in EC. (Mind you, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh were big contributors in knocking them off in that ECF series, so it wasn't just the LBJ show.)
If we want to knock Paul George for anything, it can be for not giving 100% max effort like Westbrook every regular season game. Traditional "superstars" usually give max effort all of the time. If that's what keeps him from being labeled a superstar, I'll agree and say that he's just an allstar.
PG is streaky during the regular season, but he almost always raises his game to superstar levels for the playoffs. Maybe it is an indication that he is bored/simply doesn't care for the regular season and only desires postseason success; that would match with his "I want to win (or if I'm not going to win, let me play at home)" ultimatum.
