Joe Soriano
O.J. LewisNBA Guide #6-10
June 17th 2010 14:30
This is a continuation of the guide.
6. Are any of you familiar with the term "cross era normalization"? It is pretty self explanatory. You normalize the stats from different eras of the game, so you can accurately compare Oscar Robertson with LeBron James. You find the median of stats from those years, and then you see who is the best in terms of over/under "par". In this case, par is the average. It takes math, but it is the only way to make harder comparisons. Now, it is clear that Bill Russell was much better than Hedo Turkoglu is and ever will be today.
7. Stats lie a lot. For instance, Dwight Howard's rank last year was 64th in terms of stats. Joe Johnson was 29th. No dig on Johnson- he is one of my favorites- but Dwight Howard is the better player.
8. Trading is extremely difficult in the NBA. This is the only league in which "junk" is traded for stars. Players with one year left on their contract- called expiring contracts- give teams salary cap. They dump off expensive stars for money in free agency to gamble on signing a superstar.
In the NBA, almost no teams have much cap room. You must struggle to keep the trade even, and a team under the cap can only take on 100K or less money on a contract of a player.
9. For those of you who don't know, you can't just release players. You must keep on their salary cap after you release a player, so it is useless to. That is, unless they really stink and are enigmatic on top of that. Oh, and if they have only one year left. Otherwise, your looking at a Darius Miles thing. So Wizards fans, Gilbert Arenas is not just going away.
10. The final one for today. A sharpshooter in the league is only vital if he is also clutch. Sasha Vujacic is meaningless because he is not a clutch player. However, Steve Kerr came up big when needed, so he is considered vital instead of serviceable. Remember, every player is serviceable in some way or another.
6. Are any of you familiar with the term "cross era normalization"? It is pretty self explanatory. You normalize the stats from different eras of the game, so you can accurately compare Oscar Robertson with LeBron James. You find the median of stats from those years, and then you see who is the best in terms of over/under "par". In this case, par is the average. It takes math, but it is the only way to make harder comparisons. Now, it is clear that Bill Russell was much better than Hedo Turkoglu is and ever will be today.
7. Stats lie a lot. For instance, Dwight Howard's rank last year was 64th in terms of stats. Joe Johnson was 29th. No dig on Johnson- he is one of my favorites- but Dwight Howard is the better player.
8. Trading is extremely difficult in the NBA. This is the only league in which "junk" is traded for stars. Players with one year left on their contract- called expiring contracts- give teams salary cap. They dump off expensive stars for money in free agency to gamble on signing a superstar.
In the NBA, almost no teams have much cap room. You must struggle to keep the trade even, and a team under the cap can only take on 100K or less money on a contract of a player.
9. For those of you who don't know, you can't just release players. You must keep on their salary cap after you release a player, so it is useless to. That is, unless they really stink and are enigmatic on top of that. Oh, and if they have only one year left. Otherwise, your looking at a Darius Miles thing. So Wizards fans, Gilbert Arenas is not just going away.
10. The final one for today. A sharpshooter in the league is only vital if he is also clutch. Sasha Vujacic is meaningless because he is not a clutch player. However, Steve Kerr came up big when needed, so he is considered vital instead of serviceable. Remember, every player is serviceable in some way or another.
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