Nets on the Net: 9/10/09 Edition
Sep 10, 2009 Brooklyn, Develop Don't Destroy, Devin Harris, Jay-Z, Michael Jordan, Nets on the Net, Rod Thorn
NBC New York talks some more about the new Barclays designs and links to video of Nets co-owner Jay-Z on the Late Show with David Letterman Wednesday night. Jay-Z sounded optimistic about the move to Brooklyn during the interview.
The New York Observer gives an overview of the many iterations of the Atlantic Yards development in pictures.
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn discusses a new report released by New York City’s Independent Budget Office, which shows the Barclays arena would be a $40 million loss for New York City with an additional loss of $180 million in opportunity costs.
Continuing with their off-season trends of top 10 lists, Ball Don’t Lie lists the 10 best passers of the past decade with former Net and Devin Harris trading chip Jason Kidd ranking at the top of the list.
The Nets homepage has an interview up today with team president Rod Thorn who was the man who drafted Michael Jordan for the Bulls back in the day (in Rod we trust).
Fresh off of saying Brook Lopez will average 10+ rebounds this season, Dime says Devin Harris is one of five new players who will average 9+ assists.
Some photos of a recent Nets practice.
Projecting Wins Using Win Share
Sep 10, 2009 2009-2010 Schedule Breakdown, Advanced Statistics
A couple of months back, I came across a great post over at Hoopinion, TrueHoop’s Atlanta Hawks blog, where they took a look at Win Shares and used them to try and predict the number of wins that they will have next year. I have been wanting to do this for a little while now, but I also wanted to finish up my schedule breakdown before doing this, just to have two different views to look at it, objective and statistical. Now that I finally finished my schedule breakdown, we can go on with this. A quick note, all statistics used from now on come from Basketball-Reference.
So what we are going to do is look at career win shares per 1000 minutes played and then the same number from 08-09, and using those numbers we can come up with an estimate of their number for next year. So here are the first three numbers mentioned:
We can take these rates, give out minutes, and then come up with a pretty good estimate of how many wins that they are worth for this year. You total all that up, and you got an estimation for wins this upcoming year. (Total Minutes = 19680 = 48 x 5 x 82)
A few things real quick. For Terrence Williams, I used the estimate for Courtney Lee, because I think they could end up having similar rookie seasons. The thing for him is just to find enough minutes. So in the end, these numbers got us taking 38 games this upcoming year. The thing to note though is that this doesn’t really take into consideration your opponents (I honestly don’t know if that factors into this at all). I have them winning 30, looking at it game by game, so we will see at the end of the year which is more accurate. What do you guys think?
Breaking Down The Schedule (Part 4 of 4)
Sep 10, 2009 2009-2010 Schedule Breakdown
After a brief hiatus, I am finally getting around to posting the 4th and final part of the schedule breakdown. Since it has been a little while since the last one, let’s take a quick look at where we are. After 60 games, I have the Nets with a 22-38 record. Before I started this, I said I think the Nets could win anywhere from 30-35 games, and to get to 30 the Nets are going to have to go 8-14 over the final 22 to get to 30. After the jump, see if I think they can do it.