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Subject: Fun little Preseason quiz


  Posted by: weykool - [138481617] Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 18:12

In a typical NBA season:

1. More steals or more 3-pointers?
2. More blocks or more dunks?
3. More players traded or more triple doubles?
4. More assists or more personal fouls?
5. More turnovers or more offensive rebounds?
6. More fast break points or more turnovers?
Bouns question:
Percentage of games decided by 1 point?
 
1dpr
      ID: 1990714
      Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 19:36
3s
Blocks
Assists
Triple Doubles
Turnovers
Turnovers

10%

Just guesses though.
 
2Goldcoach
      ID: 439131016
      Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 20:42
Steals
Dunks
Trades
Fouls
Offensive boards
Turnovers
8%

Guesses as well
 
3RecycledSpinalFluid
      Dude
      ID: 204401122
      Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 11:37
Being an ESPN the Magazine subscriber helps on this one :)

(cough)Page 65(cough)
 
4weykool
      ID: 138481617
      Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 15:18
1. More steals or more 3-pointers?
2. More blocks or more dunks?
3. More players traded or more triple doubles?
4. More assists or more personal fouls?
5. More turnovers or more offensive rebounds?
6. More fast break points or more turnovers?

1. steals 17,795 3-pointers 15,462
2. blocks 11,661 dunks 8,870
3. traded 50 TD 32
4. assists 52,089 Fouls 53,087
5. turnovers 35,383 off-rebs 27,303
6. fast break 30,925 turnovers 35,353
4.1% of the games decided by 1 point.

I was surprised by so few dunks, only 32 TD's, and so few 1 point games(50 out of 1230)
I think coach got 5 out of 6 correct.
 
5Frick
      ID: 42825248
      Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 17:32
I was going to guess around 5% of games decided by 1 point. NBA teams seem to be more willing to play for wins, rather than play for overtime. How many times have you seen a team take a 3 as the final shot while trailing by 2?