Feb 7, 2008: Cleveland 77 (loss) at Houston 92
FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT%
6-16 .375 0-4 .000 1-2 .500
Overheard at the game in Houston last night:
Houston Fan: “Wow, that was a pretty crappy shooting night for Larry Hughes.”
Larry Fan: ”But we didn’t have Gooden, Sasha, or Varejao.”
Houston Fan: “How does that impact Larry’s 3 point accuracy?”
Larry Fan: “But Daniel Gibson was injured too.”
Houston Fan: “But why would you blame Larry’s bad shooting on Daniel Gibson’s hamstring?”
Larry Fan: “Dude, you just don’t understand!”
10 responses so far ↓
1 J.B. (not that other B. from one of the comments, just to prevent you know what...) // Feb 8, 2008 at 10:38 am
Your site is hilarious. Congrats on quality laughter. But I’d also rather see Larry take and make some (more) good shots.
2 Shaun // Feb 8, 2008 at 10:51 am
I just think larry was a little upset that daniel gibson got invited to the 3-point shootout and he didn’t. So larry tried to silence the critics and prove the selectors wrong! Well he failed horribly…:( But look on the bright side larry at least your alma mater managed to score more than 20 points. YESSSSSSSS!!!!! Just to bad you failed to do so yet again.
3 Gmoney // Feb 8, 2008 at 11:51 am
Dear God, with AV, Sasha, Drew, and now Boobie on the shelf, who is going to take our shots???
I expect a 2-17 performance tonight from Laura.
4 Bron's Boyz // Feb 8, 2008 at 6:00 pm
From Australia, this is the best site ever! Even though we’re on other side of the planet we couldn’t agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!! Larry Hughes is JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 Daniel // Feb 8, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I love this blog. I thought I was alone in my contempt for Mr Hughes’ shot selection. We don’t even get to see many Cavs games here in Australia, which unfortunately means I spend a lot of time studying box scores.
6 Melvin // Feb 9, 2008 at 4:16 am
Daniel, all want to scorn Larry for Taking SO MANY BAD SHOTS..
7 rick // Feb 9, 2008 at 8:24 am
Larry Fan is of course code for Bill…
8 BeEasy08 // Feb 9, 2008 at 8:57 am
Gmoney, you were very close…good prediction. But thankfully this happened… “Hughes stubbed his toe with just over 5 minutes remaining and didn’t return. ” The sole reason why the Cavs won last night ….DJ got in the game, and Hughes was hiking up his skirt on the bench.
9 Alex // Feb 9, 2008 at 3:50 pm
You’ve got a clever thing going here, but you really REALLY should be using effective field goal percentage rather than straight-up FG%.
For why: http://www.nba.com/sonics/news/stats101.html
10 clefan // Feb 10, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Alex,
You guys do a fantastic job over a Mistake By The Lake Sporting Times. It’s always a great read and I enjoy your detailed analysis mixed in with lots of humor. You were one of the first sites I linked to when I started this site. Keep up the good work!
In regards to the eFG%, I agree 100% that it’s a better stat. I suppose I use the normal FG% because people already have a barometer for what’s a crappy field goal percentage. In the case of Larry, if I started publishing his 39% eFG stat, people might say “Well 39% isn’t bad at all”. While savvy folks like you and your bro would recognize that 39% eFG would still rank Larry almost dead last among starting guards in the NBA.
But I’ll try to do a better job of incorporating some of these better stats into my site. But in Larry’s example, I don’t think that particular stat changes the story too much. His FG% is horrible as compared to the rest of the league and his eFG% is also horrible when compared to the rest of the league.
Thanks!
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