Hack a Dre - In a 7 game playoff series...

[kurtis48239]

A little off topic but,if he does get hacked a lot,you would think this overall season and potentially costing us a playoff game would be enough to make him go into Kobe mode,use it as fuel,and come back next season much improved.

Then again after watching that 30 for 30 last night,and seeing what missing 4 key ft did mentally to nick anderson.let's just hope it hasant effected dres mind that bad yet.

[bstein14]

If Dre could have hit 55-60% from the line this year, I think we would have won 48-50 games. I think if he can get there next year we could win 52-54 games.

[Phenomenonsense]

You can't really ignore the fact that teams usually employ it when they're already losing or when things aren't working for them.

The end result of the game is completely irrelevant, you can't solely attribute the end result of the game to Hack-a-Dre. There are a ton of other factors, the other team either hits their shots or they don't.

The only thing you need to look at is that we score less points per possession when Dre is shooting free throws than we do when we are running our normal offense:
Piston's Average Points Per Poss: 1.06
Andre FTs Points Per Poss: .72 (2FT's X 36.1%)
Now if Andre hits around 50% FT, than the strategy isn't that effective because it's nearly on par with our points per possession.

That's a pretty significant difference and there really isn't an argument against those numbers. You can't make the conclusion that hack-a-dre doesn't work based on the end result of some games because there are many other factors that determined the winner.

I'm not sure I understand your point. The goal is to win. If we're up 15+ on teams and they start doing it and we win anyways, who cares? I'll take a 15 pt lead + hack a dre every game.

Yeah but saying we won because Hack-a-Dre wasn't effective is inaccurate. My point is you can't make the correlation between winning and hack-a-dre.
If we're up 15+ on teams there's a high chance we are going to win regardless.

We score significantly less points per possession while teams are using hack-a-dre... which means that's it's effective.

So he doesn't get to ignore the other factors, such as when they would use it, but you do?