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City of Nets
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A blog mostly about basketball stats and the Brooklyn Nets. In real life, I teach college and write about movies: https://letterboxd.com/ddibbern/
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Michael Porter's transformation with the Nets has an uncanny similarity with a previous player's transformation. #NBA #NetsWorld
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November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Claxton’s Game is Getting Better for the First Time in Years. #NBA #NetsWorld
Claxton’s Game is Developing for the First Time in Years
At the beginning of the year, Nic Claxton was telling everyone that his back was in better shape than it had been in years. I have a vague memory of Sarah Kustock mentioning that he’d become father…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Four of our five rookies are giving me glimmers of hope. #NBA #NetsWorld
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November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The Nets' defense is getting better. Just a tiny bit. #NBA #NetsWorld
Our Defense is Getting Better
Our defense is still bad. But it’s getting better. This chart shows the trendline of our opponents’ Pts/G over the first ten games. The dots represent actual bits of data. That line is a trendline …
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November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The Nets defense is terrible, but the flickers of hope from last year should give us flickers of hope this year. #NetsWorld #NBA
The First Five Games: Defense
As Lucas Kaplan noted recently, we may be on pace to be one of the worst defensive teams of all time. But there was a brief stretch last season when we were one of the best defensive teams in the l…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This year's Nets are 58% old and 42% new. #NetsWorld #NBA
The First Five Games: Line-ups
One thing we’ve learned from the first few games is that this is a very different team compared to last year. The chart below compares our total minutes played last year with this year. The gray ro…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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How bad are the Nets? We're on pace to win 13, maybe 17, depending on how you want to calculate it. #NetsWorld #NBA
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October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The Nets' pre-season stats gave me some glimpses of hope for what will certainly be a tough season. #NetsWorld #NBA
Pre-Season Stats, 2025-26
What can the Nets’ pre-season stats tell us? Most fans understand that pre-season stats aren’t worth much. True, they’re not a reliable metric to predict a team’s overall winning percentage. But pr…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I predicted the W-L totals for every team in the NBA. #NetsWorld #NBA
NBA Predictions, 2025-26
For the second year in a row, I am predicting the wins totals for every NBA team.  I did pretty well with last year’s predictions. I’d say that this year’s predictions are still an advanced Beta, w…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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My Nets prediction from last year was also surprisingly good (though, to be fair, I got lucky). #NetsWorld #NBA
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October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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My NBA W-L predictions last year were--surprisingly--better than other people's predictions. #NetsWorld #NBA
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October 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Summer League stats don't mean a whole lot, but they can offer us some basic insights (for example: Drew Timme rocks!). #NetsWorld
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July 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I was surprised by the Nets’ draft. I was surprised by Demin at #8 (instead of Maluach or Murray-Boyles?). I was surprised—like most people—that we used all of our picks. In have to admit that I feel a bit disappointed. But I have to remind myself that Marks has been good at the draft. #NetsWorld
June 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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This is my final super-basic cheat sheet about advanced college stats and the NBA Draft. #NetsWorld
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NBA Draft: College Advanced Stats Super-Basic Prediction Version
I posted something a while ago about advanced college stats and this year’s NBA Draft, but I was disappointed in my super-super-basic methodology. It’ll probably take me years to come up with a dec…
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June 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I think that Sean Marks has been pretty good at the draft. #NetsWorld
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Is Sean Marks Good at the Draft?
I went through Sean Marks’s draft history and made a little chart to see how he’s done. But before I show you the chart, I’d like to point out how difficult it is to do this analytically with any s…
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June 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I offer up counter arguments to my arguments that the draft is overrated, then offer up counter arguments to those counterarguments. #NetsWorld #NBA
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June 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I created a statistical cheat sheet that gives numerical values to every draft pick in order to figure out if it's worthwhile to package some late draft picks for some earlier ones. #NBA #NetsWorld
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June 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I continue to ponder the overvaluation of draft picks as it relates to future all-stars status.
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Draft Picks are (Kinda) Overrated, Part 2
In my last post, I looked at draft results using advanced metrics. But a lot of people don’t trust or understand those freaky numbers. So let’s look at draft picks from a more humanistic angle: tha…
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June 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's fun to talk about the draft, but I think that the significance of the draft is overrated in terms of team building:
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Draft Picks are Overrated, Part 1
It’s fun to talk about the draft, but I think a lot of basketball nerds think it’s more important than it is. All the online chatter about trading Cam Johnson to move up ten spots seems ridiculous …
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June 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I'm interested in and hopeful that the Nets draft Kon Knueppel, Khaman Maluach, Derik Queen, Jase Richardson, Asa Newell, or Collin Murray-Boyles.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Is it time to make Day'Ron the starter? #NetsWorld #NBA
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February 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The Nets Defense Has Been Improving… Dramatically!
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The Nets Defense Has Been Improving… Dramatically!
In the midst of this (mostly) miserable season, it’s important to highlight some of the rare positives. Have you noticed, for example, that we’ve been winning lately? The reason we’ve been winning …
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February 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I'm very happy and very relieved that we didn't trade Cam Johnson. He's one of the most underrated players in the league; and we got him on a good contract.
February 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I hate fairweather fans. When I'm at Barclays, I audibly sneer at people who sneak past me to leave early. Because they don't care. But lately, I've been struggling to watch games to the end. For the opposite reason. Because I care too much. We're on a 5-22 streak. You gotta admit: it's been rough.
January 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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34-7 to OKC. I'm turning this shit off. Maybe for the rest of the season.
January 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM