Nuggets vs L's:
"Fuck The Lakers (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap) Redux"
Pregame thoughts:
It is with great pleasure that I type, the L's are the ONLY winless team in the league and are a laughingstock. I've waited 45 agonizing years to express exactly that!Their GM (LeBron) has constructed possibly the most ill-fitting hodgepodge of bricklayers in NBA history, to surround his BiG tHrEe (also free-masons), and is rightfully being punished for pursuing friends over fit, assuming his greatness would transcend all roster-construction missteps, while all of LaLa land blames Pelinka, Westbrook, Kanye, Matthew Perry and EVERYONE BUT LeBron.
Make no mistake L's fan: The buck DEMONSTRABLY does not stop with shadow-GM, Rob Pelinka, no matter what condescending caption LeBron posts to his IG.
Radiohead predicted the mess that is '22/'23 LeBron, in a ditty written way back in '93, which can be found here.
This one is simple: Denver must give max effort for three quarters and that should result in coasting to victory while all starters rest in the 4th quarter, just as they did in their previous game vs Utah.
Do NOT lose to the hapless L's! Here's hoping that this veteran Nuggets squad avoided the nightlife of LA last night, in a way previous Denver teams seemed incapable. That really is the ONLY way I see the L's snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, this season.
The BiG tHrEe for LA are all questionable, and additionally, all three may or may not play tonight. AD has nothing for MVP, so I expect him to milk his owchies for one more game, while LeBron heroically pads his numbers vs the Nuggets bench unit, and Russ does this:
The Good Guys
Their Adversaries
*Red boxes above indicate one notable number (or numbers) to catch my eye for each team
(Open images in a new tab for a closer look. Charts courtesy of ESPN.COM.)
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Data:
TPM™ Game 7 LAL
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Total TPM™
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Avg. TPM™ Per Game
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Final Thoughts:
- Denver loses by a final score of 110-121, and in so doing falls to 4-3 on the season.
- Fuck the fucking LA Lakers!
- This team CLEARLY enjoyed Halloween weekend in LA a bit too much. Top suspects include Bones, Braun and sadly, veteran Jeff Green.
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For context pertaining to the statistical aspects of this piece, please open this link: TPM™
A brief statement with regard to this piece on whole: As a means to avoid repeating myself I will include this descriptive diatribe in all TPM posts going forward.
Sure I like statistics; ever since I was a child collecting sports cards and later a pre-teen who ran pre-internet fantasy sports leagues on ink/paper/spreadsheet for the four major US pro-leagues, I've been fascinated by box-score stats, but I'm by no means an expert.
I created TPM, which has been around longer than RPM incidentally and unlike them, I fully disclose my non-proprietary system and I contextualize the action rather than being a boring, mysterious, predictive metric, because it does add immediate and accessible context to what we see and what the numbers indicate, which I like.
While the data is meticulously tracked and demonstrably sound, I'm a creative type, not an engineer. Algorithm is the bane of my existence in fact. I'd far rather approach life with the intrigue of expected surprise than attempt to get to the bottom of why things are the way they are. There are many engineers in my family, so I totally understand that joy can be derived from finding solutions to problems, I just can't relate. It's not fun for me. THIS is for the most part, not fun for me.
Now I'm a 45-year-old man who was born during the season in which the team I love joined the NBA. I happen to have a lifetime of experience with this sport in several capacities, including playing (highly underrated within the writing community) so I understand basketball theory in a way most (by no means all) pundits do not.
I was, in this case, interested in a data-driven approach.
If you are averse to colorful language, this is not the place for you. I have no way of knowing how many people even read this, so I'll not be affected even remotely if you choose not to indulge. For those of you who do, I greatly appreciate your support.
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And as always, act like a good person privately and especially in public; even if you are not, and most importantly, fuck the Lakers.
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