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Originally Posted by jthig32
This is, admittedly, flimsy evidence, but as far as I can tell, the BReference.com play index only allows you to put the scoring margin of a game into the search criteria if you're looking for shots. The results are:
For this season, during the fourth quarter when the Mavs are up or down 15 points or less, Roddy has 15 FGA in 6 games and West has 16 in 8 games. Obviously they will only register as having played in the game if they took a shot.
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I don't understand, first, you say this.
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Originally Posted by jthig32
For this season, during the fourth quarter when the Mavs are up or down 16 or more, Roddy has 15 FGA in 6 games and West has 4 FGA in 1 game.
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And after that, this. Am i reading this right, the only difference, is that you use 16 points deficit, or advantage here? I don't get it.
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Originally Posted by jthig32
Now, this is obviously very crude information, but unless you think that Delonte has played in a handful of blowouts and simply not taken a shot during that time (possible, I suppose), this does seem to back up what I consider to be a very obvious observation that Roddy has played significantly more garbage time than Delonte.
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So what are we saying in reference to Cad Bane, and markus' claim, that those 15 garbage time shot attempts, which would add a whooping 0,53333 attempt per game, are somehow padding his stat? I know you didn't say that, but they're saying exactly that.
What i read from those stats, is that we barely played any garbage time this year. 15 shot attempts in 30 games, from a high usage guy like Roddy? I think it's clear as day his stats aren't affected by that. I don't think i ever claimed Roddy didn't play more garbage time minutes than West. What i claimed, is that we barely played any garbage time, as most our games were either close, or in striking distance, we were either down, or up 4-6-8-10 in the fourth. We obviously barely blew any team out this year, because of our offense. So again, how is their original claim is right? It's not, especially if you factor in that Roddy comes in against starters in both the first, and third quarter.