Jamal Crawford explains how Westbrook is viewed differently between players and "stat guys"

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I think a lot of the problem is, as it's evident on this board: players blatantly go against what "stat nerds" say, because they don't feel as though "stat geeks" should have a megaphone when stating their opinions. Which is only natural; if you play a sport for a living, you're going to feel some type of way about someone else speaking about you and that sport, in general, from the confines of their couch. You're out there busting your ass against the best players in the world, and some unathletic cracka is talking about what you're doing wrong.

And then you have a flow-on from that where the NBA is a fraternity, where if one of their own is being criticized by a "stat geek", they'll feel the need to defend that player, and twist the narrative to where they'll be completely biased. Even if they truly don't believe what they're saying, or if they know what the "stat geek" is saying has some shred of truth, they won't acknowledge it. They'll just ride for their own. And that's fine, that's their right to, but nobody should be using that as evidence to suggest that Jamal's opinion holds greater value because of it.

Man, if yall don't pay attention to this post...

 

[horizon]

It's not everybody here but, yeah, the low basketball IQ knuckleheads yell louder than everyone else.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Bu-bu-but the stat guys don't know what they're talking about. The players know best.

 

[H. Selassie]

In this case…yeah I’m rolling with the stat guys.

 

[frush11]

Players are so scared to look like sellouts or whatever. They'll say whatever to justify this dumb ass Westbrook. But I guarantee not one off these players would want him on their teams

 

[Ozymandeas]

he says in his post he went to a 50/50 black/white HS

and he's right, only cacs who were super geeked about ball back then were the ones who actually balled. The whole thing where nerdy cacs got heavy into ball started in the mid-ish/late00s and exploded n/h early 10s

These dummies don’t read. I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. This place is ground zero for guido Italian cacs and Irish cacs. And then blacks. My school was half black and half white. And it wasn’t that we didn’t talk to each other, the cacs just didn’t care about basketball. They were playing lacrosse and shyt. Football and baseball. I feel like the moment analytics became prominent, white people got alot more interested in BB because for them it became like Dungeons and Dragons or something When And1 and Allen Iverson was popping, the sport was too hood for them.

 

[Soldier]

These dummies don’t read. I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. This place is ground zero for guido Italian cacs and Irish cacs. And then blacks. My school was half black and half white. And it wasn’t that we didn’t talk to each other, the cacs just didn’t care about basketball. They were playing lacrosse and shyt. Football and baseball. I feel like the moment analytics became prominent, white people got alot more interested in BB because for them it became like Dungeons and Dragons or something When And1 and Allen Iverson was popping, the sport was too hood for them.

I have met cacs from the Philadelphia area and most of them were repping the flyers/Phillies/eagles and rarely the Sixers. They fukked more with Eric lindros more than Allen iverson.

It was the same thing in my city (Toronto)during the early-mid 2000s. This was the Vince carter era, the excitement of vinsanity, but cacs over the age of 25 didn’t care about it and only watched and followed hockey. Only half of the younger cacs and most Visible minorities were behind the raptors.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Does this mean the "stat guys" officially know more about the game than the players?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Ole David Copperfield ass nxggas just disappeared from this thread.