Player Pairs - April 14, 2012

[jiggy_55]

Amazing data, thanks timvp.

[Darkwaters]

We should play Blair/Bonner/Neal all together at the same time.

Defense? Who needs it?

[Keepin' it real]

If you're trying to prove that statistics are meaningless, or at least misleading, you're doing a great job. Bonner is a malignant cancer who has been killing the Spurs for years. Any "evidence" to the contrary is just plain wrong.

[skin]

Great writeup.

IMO the way Duncan played the 1st quarter yesterday shows it is possible Splitter-Duncan pairing in the dying minutes of the 4th quarter. That being said, Diaw should start over Blair.

[mazerrackham]

The Green and Red in these charts should be symmetrical across the middle diagonal. Why is one Parker-Leonard pairing green and the other red, for instance...

[Obstructed_View]

The Green and Red in these charts should be symmetrical across the middle diagonal. Why is one Parker-Leonard pairing green and the other red, for instance...

The green and red are relative to the individual player. The numbers should be symmetrical, but not the colors. They have the same number, which is higher than Parker's and lower than Leonard's.

[Seventyniner]

How would a team go about defending a lineup of Neal, Ginobili, Jackson, Bonner and Diaw? If that quintet can survive defensively, it could be the ultimate headache for the opposition.

Careful. You're getting dangerously close to Nellie-ball territory.

[Aztecfan03]

more fuel for the fire
duncan and splitter start together
diaw/bonner second unit with some tiago sprinkled in could handle other second units
blair= amensty

diaw and jack makes sense since the bobcats were the #1 defensive team in the nba 2 years ago with both of them getting about 40+ minutes per game

also do you think diaw could play SF in the second unit
ginobili
neal
diaw
bonner
splitter

unless you are thinking of playing jax or kawhi at PF, that second unit would mean that one of jax, kawhi, or green would be out of the rotation.

[timvp]

We should play Blair/Bonner/Neal all together at the same time.

Defense? Who needs it?

That threesome gives up 141 points per 100 possessions

Good guess.

[will_spurs]

Nice stats, too bad they don't take into account the strength of the opposition (although to be honest I have no idea how they could do that). I'd like for a 3rd color to be included (some shade of grey) when the difference with the average is less than 1 point (or, say, 1%). Right now it's red regardless of whether the score dips by 0.01 or several points. Another way to show that would be to show differentials in all the tables, and not only in the first.

I'd also like to see Parker's value along the years, just to know if he's always been underrated as a defender, or if he's really improved in this area recently.

In case of players with full red on one side and full green on the other side, it's easy to conclude that they are specialized players (Neal on O, Green on D) but that wouldn't be the case for Parker.

My guess why his D numbers are so good, based on watching games: the Spurs tend to go on a run when he's on the floor, which means even if the O isn't stellar, the D has to be flawless. That would definitely improve his numbers in the way we see right now. He's also playing a lot in the clutch when the D tightens up.