Tag: D’Angelo Russell

MVP Race: Who are the best players based on advanced analytics and impact metrics?

As part of a new series at HoopsHype, we are examining who should win the NBA MVP award based on what we can learn from advanced analytics.

For this survey, each impact metric was included because it was considered among the most trustworthy by NBA executives when asked by HoopsHype during this past offseason.

The metrics pulled included Daily Plus-Minus (DPM), Estimated Plus-Minus (EPM), LEBRON (BBall-Index), RAPTOR (FiveThirtyEight), Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus (RAPM) and Box Plus-Minus (Basketball-Reference). We also added the model of Box Plus-Minus from Backpicks.com as well as the newest impact metric, Daily-Updated Rating of Individual Performance (DRIP).

ESPN’s Real Plus-Minus was not included because the data has not been published yet this season. However, if it’s publicly available by our next update, RPM will also be calculated.

Because each of these metrics is graded on a per-100 possession scale, we adjusted for playing time by multiplying their impact contribution on each metric by the percentage of possible minutes they have played for their team so far this season.

As with the official vote, the top player received 10 points, the second received seven points, the third received five points, the fourth received three points, and the fifth player received one point. If a player finished outside of the Top 5, they didn’t receive any votes from that measurement.

Only players that made the Top 5 on least one of these eight metrics were included in our rankings below. Some of the most notable omissions include DeMar DeRozan, Trae Young, Zach LaVine, Karl-Anthony Towns, LaMelo Ball, Luka Doncic, Paul George and Devin Booker.

To see where our staff at HoopsHype feels the MVP race is as of right now, however, click here. To see who should make the All-NBA ballots based on HoopsHype’s Global Rating, click here.

Nets trade suggestion has D’Angelo Russell returning in Kyrie Irving deal

If Kyrie Irving has no plans to return, should the Nets be looking to bring D’Angelo Russell back to Brooklyn?

Kyrie Irving has not played a game since June 13 and as a new calendar year approaches, there’s no indication that he plans to change his stance on vaccination and become eligible to return. Without him, the Nets have been forced to figure things out on the court and at this point, now it’s starting to really get tempting on if Brooklyn should pull the trigger on a trade for another third star.

In Bleacher Report’s latest trade suggestion, things don’t get more tempting than this.

“I know this trade is as galaxy-brained as Kyrie Irving’s YouTube search history. It sends D’Angelo Russell back to the Nets less than three years after he left as part of the sign-and-trade that landed them Kevin Durant, reuniting him with a team that needs another ball-dominant scorer like it needs an extra hole in the head.

But don’t you think Brooklyn might prefer a point guard who, you know, is actually going to play? When you frame Irving-for-Russell as a nothing-for-something exchange, it at least brushes up against plausibility on the Nets’ side.”

B/R writer Grant Hughes raises a good point. Having Irving as a third star is plausibly enough to win a championship. But if Irving refuses to become eligible, Russell would undoubtedly be valuable to the Nets.

Not only would Russell be willing to play and finish off the season with the team, but he’s still young, going on to 26-year-old in February. To put the icing on the cake, Russell is one of those premier guards that elevates his game in clutch moments, which can help take some pressure off of Kevin Durant and James Harden when it comes down to it.

On the season, the former Buckeye averages 19 PPG and 6.4 APG on 38% shooting from the field and 32% accuracy from three.

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La clavada de Anthony Edwards y la reacción de ‘Ni siquiera se estiró’ de D’Angelo Russell

En los dos años que lleva jugando en la NBA, Anthony Edwards nos ha dado dos de las más maravillosas clavadas que hemos visto. Está aquella de la temporada anterior sobre Yuta Watanabe y los Toronto Raptors que casi colapsa el internet, y ahora está …

En los dos años que lleva jugando en la NBA, Anthony Edwards nos ha dado dos de las más maravillosas clavadas que hemos visto.

Está aquella de la temporada anterior sobre Yuta Watanabe y los Toronto Raptors que casi colapsa el internet, y ahora está la del miércoles pasado con la que fulminó a Gabe Vincent.

Y justo la del miércoles fue monstruosa. No nos importa que no haya contado, fue una de las mejores muestras de atletismo que hemos visto sobre la cancha.

¿Y saben quién lo sabe? D’Angelo Russell.

Tras verlo en tiempo real, el compañero de equipo de Edwards quedó completamente asombrado sobre lo que acababa de hacer. Su reacción lo dice todo. En parte por lo increíble que fue, pero también porque ¿por qué razón los oficiales considerarían que fue carga?

Fue perfecta.

Traducción: D’Angelo Russell y la reacción de “ni siquiera se estiró”

 

Es casi la misma reacción que Russell tuvo ante una clavada de Blake Griffin en el campamento de basquetbol al que asistió hace años. Ya saben cuál: “Pero ni siquiera se estiró”.

Traducción: “¡Pero ni siquiera se estiró!” D’Angelo no podía creer lo que acaba de hacer Blake. Hoy empieza USAB.

 

Aquí están las dos juntas, es lo más gracioso.

 

 

Sí, lo sentimos mucho, pero necesitamos que la NBA le otorgue dos puntos de forma retroactiva a Anthony Edwards, no hay forma en la que esto se considere como una falta ofensiva. Así de buena es.

Ojalá que la próxima clavada de Edwards sea aún más salvaje.

 

Articulo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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Sixers discuss poor first half, D’Angelo Russell shots in loss to Wolves

The Philadelphia 76ers discuss their poor first half and the clutch D’Angelo Russell shots in a loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Philadelphia 76ers returned home on Saturday to host the Minnesota Timberwolves and they were hoping to get back on track following a 2-4 road trip. Everything was set up for a win as they had two days off and they had Joel Embiid return to the lineup as well.

The Timberwolves were playing on the second night of a back-to-back, but they jumped on the Sixers early. Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns combined for 27 points in the first quarter and they led the Sixers 35-20 after one quarter. They led by as many as 20 for the game before Philadelphia rallied, but the Wolves prevailed in double-overtime.

Minnesota shot 59% in the first half and they had 34 points in the paint as they made a mockery of Philadelphia’s defense.

“I thought we were running in quicksand in the first half,” said coach Doc Rivers. “I showed the guys at halftime, I think we had 12 point-blank, wide-open shots, all of them hit the front rim. I told them, you’ll get your legs, just keep playing, keep moving the ball, and I thought we did that. Defensively, I thought we had to be better in the first half. They shot 59%, but it was a tough game.”

The Sixers were able to rally, but it should not have been that way. The defensive effort in the first half was about as poor as it possibly could be.

“I thought we got off to a slow start with just our energy and our pace out there,” said Tobias Harris. “Defensively in the first half, we weren’t connected at all. They had too many straight line drives where they drove right past us down the middle of the lane and that created too much havoc for us.”

The Sixers held the Timberwolves to 41.5% from the floor after halftime, but Minnesota’s D’Angelo Russell then got going. He had 17 points in the second half and he knocked down a couple of clutch triples to lead the Wolves to a win.

“A lot of them were 1-on-1,” said Rivers of Russell. “He made two 3s in 1-on-1 coverage and he’s a shot-maker.”

Russell hit those shots over an elite defender in Matisse Thybulle so the Sixers essentially will live with those shots, but the fact is he made some really tough ones and that is something that will hurt.

“Russell comes off and hits that 3 and then hits another one,” Harris added. “That hurts when we’re on the other side making 2s, that hurts a little bit. We’ll watch film tomorrow and understand those plays, we can’t have. Even when a guy makes a 2, we don’t wanna allow any buckets for the other team.”

Every time the Sixers would score, the Timberwolves would come back down and answer and that was a tough one to swallow in this one.

“Give them credit, I thought they responded every time and made tough shots when they needed it,” Harris finished. “I think that’s where the game slipped.”

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