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I'm sure this has been brought up in other places, but good news on the Brandon Lloyd trade today.

6 months ago Tiny blooming rock 5 comments

Purple Row The Opening Day Loss Was My Fault

Every season, sometime during the week leading up to opening day, I make sure to watch the movie Major League . . . but I dropped the ball this year.

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Purple Row Why I Dislike WAR as the Ultimate Player Valuation Metric


Maybe this isn't the best place to post this, but I was looking at the 2010 WAR leaders on Fangraphs and noticed something that, quite frankly was astonishing to me.  Guess who generated an equal amount of WAR as Carlos Gonzalez in 2010?

You may not be as suprised as I was, but it's worth a look, nonetheless.

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Denver Stiffs Ty Lawson's Summer League Performance

 

Overlooked by many of the summer league reviews was the performance put in by our PG of the future (and hopefully the 2010-2011 season: Ty Lawson.  He was understandably lost in the shuffle of how good John Wall looked (23.5 PT, 7.8 AST, 2.5 STL . . . wow!), as well as all of the other much hyped rookies: some good (Cousins) and some bad (Turner).  My problem is the fact that other PG's received much more pub than did TyLaw, including Cleveland's Pooh Jeter, and New York's Toney Douglas, despite the fact that the numbers tell us Mr. Lawson had a better summer league performance.

Anyone that watched the Nuggets' games would tell you that Ty controlled the game when he was on the floor, and he was super efficient.  But for those of you who need tangible evidence (i.e.-statistics) let's compare some of his stats after the jump . . .

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