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February 17, 2016

Giants vs Warriors : Bumgarner vs Curry

Filed under: baseball, basketball — Tags: , — Jonathan Lee @ 4:40 pm

Pitchers and catchers report to training camp today! We’re less than two months away from opening day! Baseball is almost back!

Living in the Bay Area, it’s impossible not to be excited about the rest of this NBA season. Will the Warriors break the Bulls’ record of 72 wins and go undefeated at home? Will the Warriors repeat as NBA champions?

It’s also impossible not to be excited about the upcoming San Francisco Giants season. For starters, it’s an even year, which means they should be planning another parade down Market Street again, right? The Giants also had a pretty impressive offseason, signing Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija, and Denard Span.

The parallels between the two franchises are numerous. Both are the only two Bay Area franchises to win a title in the past 20 years. Both are lead by a strong ownership group and front office, as the core of both championship teams have been built through the draft.

And both teams are lead by the most humble, egoless stars in the game: Stephen Curry and Madison Bumgarner, who are arguably the two most underpaid players in their respective sports.

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February 10, 2016

How realistic is 73 wins for the Warriors?

Filed under: basketball, Uncategorized — Tags: — Jonathan Lee @ 4:32 pm

During the midst of the Warriors 24-0 record to start this NBA season, many questioned whether or not the 1995-96 Bulls’ record of 72 wins was in danger. I thought it was foolish to even consider 73 wins, as no other team in NBA history has ever had more than 69 wins, achieved twice by the 1971-72 Lakers and the 1996-97 Bulls.

But as the Warriors continued to pile on the wins, the thought of 73 wins got more and more real. The Warriors need to win 25 of their last 30 games to get to 73 wins. That’s a 83.3% win percentage. With a win tonight, they will be at a 92.3% win percentage.So how realistic is it for the Warriors to reach 73 wins? As I looked at the schedule, it’s not as implausible as I once thought.

Let me explain.

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February 5, 2016

Ranking the 2016 Warriors in terms of Importance

Filed under: basketball — Tags: — Jonathan Lee @ 9:00 pm

1. Stephen Curry

The past couple weeks, I tried to come up with reasons to put Draymond at the #1 spot, but I just couldn’t justify it. Curry’s the league most unstoppable player, the most explosive offensive player in NBA history. As he goes, the Warriors goes.

  • Win share/48 of 0.338 – Win share/48 is an advanced stat that determines who much a player contributes to a given win. The NBA record? Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s 0.3399 in the 1971-72 season. Curry is only .0019 behind Kareem’s. This 2015-16 season is better than the best season of Jordan, Lebron, and Wilt.
  • 232 3-pointers in 47 games – If the season ended today, Curry would finish 10th all time in 3 pointers per season. He’s only 7 3-pointers behind Klay’s total from last season. No player has ever made 300 3-points in a season. Curry’s on pace to shatter his own record of 286 and hit 400.
  • +/- of 15.9 – When Curry is on the floor, the Warriors outscore their opponents by close to 16 points. The highest +/- since 2000? Curry last year at 11.2. Lebron’s best? 10.6 in his 2008-2009 year.

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