GAME THREAD: Atl's Bench vs Orlando Magic

[Orlwillbeback]

I believe Orlando and philly are the only eastern teams who haven't made the post season in the last 4 seasons

Gosh that truth is hard to read.




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Not if you've got the big picture in mind. I could think of nothing worse than cheering for a team that made the playoffs but has no real hope of winning, and then when the offseason comes around they find themselves in the mid first round for the draft. Free agency is just as much of a gamble.

Give me some top tier high potential guys to watch develop any day. There's no point rushing into a playoff push until you've got someone to build around.

Yea this is clearly much better....

We're so much better off for having tanked now that we have Gordon and Mario. Both guys have so nuch potential it's not even funny.

I say we keep force feeding them minutes and shots to develop them because they're going to be stars for sure.

[erod009]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard rotation on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

[Patrick1978]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard team on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

I totally agree with you.
Ag is versatile pf but not a sf

[erod009]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard team on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

I totally agree with you.
Ag is versatile pf but not a sf

Plus the difference between him and PG13 is the second has handles, shooting and playmaking abilities.

[Mc-o]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard team on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

I totally agree with you.
Ag is versatile pf but not a sf

yeah , AG can play spot minutes as SF but im really concerned how it will look full time.

[MagicStarwipe]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard rotation on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

AG was the starting SF on that team until Brandon Ashley went down with an injury.

[BadMofoPimp]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard team on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

I totally agree with you.
Ag is versatile pf but not a sf

Plus the difference between him and PG13 is the second has handles, shooting and playmaking abilities.

AG has the athletic ability to play the 3 and can make the slick moves, but he looks awkward and his accuracy on those moves and shots is just plain bad.

[Xatticus]

I actually botched it. That would be the likelihood of making the playoffs for four years in succession. The likelihood of missing the playoffs for four years is less than five percent (.467^4). There are obviously a lot of variables that significantly alter the real distribution. The bigger point though, is that you have to be very poor to miss the playoffs repeatedly when the threshold for entry is so low.

Edit: There have actually been six teams in the NBA that have made the playoffs in each of the last four years, and six that have failed to reach the playoffs in each of the last four. Orlando and Philadelphia are the only two in the Eastern Conference that have accomplished the latter, while only Atlanta has made the playoffs in every season. Detroit and New York are the only other teams in the East that have failed to reach the playoffs in at least two of the last four seasons.

"Assuming nothing else..." So what exactly is the point of comparing any real outcomes to a random distribution of 50/50 outcomes?

Everything that can be known or said about basketball is being deliberately ignored in this exercise, which seems rather pointless.

Why not just say that the Magic have been bad for the last four years, and use real results from real teams for comparisons if you need to?

That's akin to asking what the point of statistics is at all. The purpose of statistical modeling is to provide context. There is nothing random about it and it has nothing to do with the flip of a coin. This simple model is based on nothing other than the number of teams in the league in relation to how many make the playoffs each year. Making the playoffs isn't difficult. Whatever other inferences you've drawn are your own.

[WeNeverLeftAZ]

People are crazy stating AG played SF in college. Arizona used a 3-guard rotation on McConnell, Nick Johnson and Gabe York with AG and Tarczewski in the paint and RHJ as 6th man, the real SF on that team.

AG was the starting SF on that team until Brandon Ashley wen't down with an injury.

Yup. Undefeated until BAsh went down in February.

[WeNeverLeftAZ]

That being said. I really think he would better at the 4 like Draymond.