Spoiler Protection Pet: Georgie
Georgie is a 3.5 year old mutt. She loves to play basketball, it is her favorite activity. If you bounce the ball to her, she hits it back to you with her nose (like Air Bud). If you roll the ball to her, she attacks & tries to bite it (like Cujo).
— Ty on DNHQ
Pet Picture Rotation
General offer to DNHQ: if you send me a tasteful picture of your loved animal, I will add it to the rotation of Game Wrap animal pictures.
Ideally, wearing DNHQ gear or Warriors gear, but having gear somewhere in the picture is great, or even without is okay.
No AI please.
Email to apricotan@gmail.com
Game 3 wrap: Warriors young people fight valiantly but lose to Suns; Booker runs wild; Yax, Melt and B Will score 20+
Flashy thingie mind wiper can be checked out of the DNHQ library
Official Box Score
The official Always Close Enough To Hurt™ audit
Here is a home-grown graph of the game win probability tonight. The chart looks about right to me, but if you use this for anything important or anything bad like gambling, then you get what you get.
The game was a back-to-back schedule loss, due to half this roster’s inability to play consecutive game without a walker, so expectations were low. But the junior squad kept it close through three quarters, so I deem this game Close Enough To Hurt™
APRIBOX Scores
It’s okay if you don’t know what all these stats are. My high-strung computer calculates some rough advanced statistics for the game.1
Teal = better, blood orange = worse.
Warrior Wonder
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On Site Comments and Politics
Reminder that I do not want DNHQ to become a political discussion. Politics is much more important than basketball. These events should be discussed widely and people should call their Senators and Congresspeople, and organize locally, but there are much better places than here. This is a little corner of the internet to get away from that.
On to the next one…
AVG-Z = mean of the 4 z-scores (PIE, GmSc, VORP, DRE) · PIE = NBA Player Impact Estimate, share of team production · GmSc = Hollinger Game Score · VORP = value over replacement · DRE = daily regression estimate · +/- = on-court point differential · MIN = minutes · PTS = points · FGM/A, 3PM/A, FTM/A = FG/3PT/FT made–att · OR/DR = off./def. rebounds · AST/STL/BLK/TOV = assists/steals/blocks/turnovers · FD = fouls drawn on offense · OFD = offensive fouls drawn (charges) · PF = personal fouls · TS% = scoring efficiency incl. FTs · eFG% = FG% weighted for 3s · 3PAr = share of shots that are 3s · FTr = FTA/FGA rate · OR/DR/TR% = rebound shares · AST/STL/BLK/TOV/USG% = rate stats · ORTG/DRTG = pts per 100 poss · BPM = box plus-minus · xFG% = expected FG% on shots taken · xPTS = expected FG points · +xP = FG points over expected · FG%+ = FG% minus expected, in points · DxP = opponent FG pts over expected on shots defended (negative = good) · GRV = defensive attention drawn, on- and off-ball (tracking stats: NBA only; GRV for spotlight leaders)
I guess the post-game conversation is over. 🥺
Dirks Mavs once started the season 0-4 only to win 60+ games and....well the rest of the story doesn't matter. 🤪😅