Other 2023-24 commentary

[Crow]

Young - Murray is the worst performing pair in 18 most used for Hawks at -6pts / 100p.

[Crow]

Bucks starters under Doc, +56 cumulatively. Everything else combined (mostly dinks) worse than -70 so far.

Good concentration on starters. On average garbage selection / management after that. Need a big name Coach for that? No. Need more or better input from / influence from analytics? Seems like it.

[Crow]

Re: Nets

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/1771 ... 39397?s=20

[Crow]

Hawks:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/1777065835905118536

[Crow]

Anthony Black, low assist rate, high turnover rate, meh at best rebounding. Feb. and March had awful scoring efficiency and overall offense in those 2 months were in worst 3.

20.25 years old now. Nowhere near ready to deliver.

[Crow]

Banchero:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/1779989309766176957

[DarkStar48]

I recall league sources suggesting want $7.5 billion / year.

$7.5B/year would be CRAZY.

The 2007 TV deal was $930M/year. That is approximately $1.7B per annum less than the 2016 contract.

I believe the NBA is going to get an increase well more than that especially with expansion around the corner, but a ~$4.8B per year raise is hard to believe.

Silver should be arrested. I can't believe he actually got about $7B per season from the companies -- such a heist. I guess I underestimated the streaming premium.

Link: https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/2 ... Per-Season

[Crow]

Contract to contract comparison is not completely simple. 10 -11 year deal. The payout cited, is it flat again or average? Who benefits most from the big one time jump (and are they doing that again, despite the past issues?) Inflation rate assumptions matter. Maybe population, viewing time and income growth matter.

If it is flat, the increase is over that 10-11 year span as well as the first year. The effective average per annum increase would be a different, additional calculation.

If it is flat, is it to make the announcement most impressive from the Commissioner to teams? Networks go along, knowing that in the long run it is not so bad for them?

[Mike G]

If the gambling companies are contributing much, it feels like a doomed enterprise.

[Crow]

According to
https://www.82games.com/2324/LEADRTG8.HTM
the Celtics only faced a 10+ point deficit in 20% of regular season games. That was just half of the second best team, less than 40% of median and less than 1/4th of the worst teams.

Thunder were 8th best at 46%. Something to work on, despite how much they enjoy the comeback.

Celtics and Thunder were 1st and 3rd in blowout win% with TWolves second. Mavericks lost the most blowouts by a good team.