As a follow-up to their post about minute-weighted team age, Hoopism took the advice of our commenters and re-ran team ages, this time weighted by Win Shares: Mapping Average Age to Success in the NBA Comparing side-by-side with the raw roster averages, this has the effect of allowing you to see which teams’ most productive [...]
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From Sporcle, here’s a quiz for everyone who fondly remembers the NBA of the nineties: Can you name the players who made the All-NBA team in the 1990′s?
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This layup comes courtesy of S-R president Sean Forman, who wanted me to give a shout-out to his alma mater Grinnell College for setting an NCAA record — namely, the record for most players to make at least one 3-pointer in a single game. They had 19 different guys make a three in their 137-103 rout of Faith Baptist Bible College, going 29-for-88 from downtown in the game. Apparently they had the record in sight at halftime:
“The Pioneers play a rotation with three shifts of five players, and shift changes on the first whistle after 35 seconds. Ahead 88-38 at the half, [Grinnell coach David] Arseneault told his team to go for the record.
‘Nobody in the stands knew what we were doing,’ he said. ‘There were times when someone would have a wide-open layup and then just dribble past the basket and pass the ball out. People were looking at us like, “What is he doing?”‘”