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NBL18 Foul Counts

Sums are shit

I don't trust Jack's numbers at all. Looking at Adelaide he got a basic sum wrong. If -0.5 for Adelaide and +4.0 for opponents = +4.5 total advantage at home then how does -1.0 for Adelaide and +2.9 for opponents = +1.9 total advantage on the road? Surely it should be +3.9? That's just the first one I looked at.

I've done some special sums too. It turns out that Perth have the most chromosomes per fan in the league.

Oooh, you kinda know it's school holidays when the "your mum" jokes come out.

For my little Perth fan friend:

Scoring machines (Points per minute of play) (+10 mins/game)

Jawai – 0.930
Carrera – 0.776
Conger – 0.637
Cotton – 0.608
Prather – 0.605
Clarke – 0.601
Tokoto – 0.578
Randall – 0.568
Ellis, C – 0.562
Sosa – 0.557
Deng – 0.551
Boone – 0.544
Johnson, D – 0.541
Jervis – 0.527
Moore – 0.525
Buford – 0.521
Ellis, P – 0.508
Creek – 0.503
Trice – 0.500

Benchies out to impress (under 3 mins per game)

Vague – 0.917
Davis – 0.769
Hunter – 0.571

Those probably not there for their scoring…(at least 10 mins per game)
(lowest PPM)

D Martin – 0.183 ppm
D Barlow – 0.200
S Bruce – 0.210
K White – 0.222
N Egwu – 0.226
J Kenny – 0.235
R Martin – 0.269
Devlon Johnson – 0.279
C Steindl – 0.282
C Moller – 0.286
A Gibson – 0.287

Obviously, don't expect your name on the list, I don't expect you would score much

I might just look at who in the NBL has the highest scoring rate per min and who is the most useless at scoring.

New Zealand head to the cage to take on Mills and the Tigers Saturday night. NZ have started with 3 from 3 on the road including thrashing the Kings by 38 points last round while Mills leads all scorers this season with 23.5 points his team are 1-1 sitting in 6th.
Some interesting match ups in this game.

Wilkinson Vs Tragardh (both players very mobile and capable of shooting the jumper)

Jackson Vs Mills (this will be interesting to say the least)

Bruton Vs Ubaka (will CJ be to slow on D or will Ubaka underestimate CJ's 3point shooting and craftiness)

Pledger Vs Burston (213cm and 113kg up against 211cm and 103kg battling in the paint)

Abercrombie Vs Walker (both very athletic and not scared to attack the rim)

Be a dream start to the season if NZ can get the win taking them to 4-4 but this one won't be easy. Hopefully Patrick Mills will try to win the game by himself and Jackson can force him into bad shots and passes and the Breakers just do what they have been doing by just sharing the ball around on offense and pressuring the ball and getting in the passing lanes on D.

Thoughts and predictions?