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Thinking Basketball

#7: The Bucks historic start & interpreting modern numbers

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Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Bucks are off to an incredible start after a month – where does history say they will finish? How have other teams fared who started similarly? And what should we make of the huge numbers being put up by players around the league? Visual history spacing: http://www.backpicks.com/2017/11/02/the-history-of-nba-spacing/ Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

A spectacular move by Janus Entente Guampo.

0:08.0

No, that's not it.

0:09.0

A spectacular move by Entinte quampas.

0:14.0

Yes, Janus and it can't.

0:17.0

Why don't we just call him Greek? Thinking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back. I feel like it's been about a year since the last episode. Since then,

0:38.8

season is kicked off. All kinds of craziness has ensued.

0:43.0

Brooke Lopez is shooting 30 footers.

0:46.0

Brooke Lopez has made more three pointers

0:51.0

than I think all of the 1980s combined.

0:53.9

So before we do anything else, Milwaukee.

0:57.8

Man, what a start to the season for the Milwaukee Bucks.

1:01.5

I think a lot of folks, myself included, thought they would be much

1:05.1

improved. I shot out a tweet on opening night saying that they were going to be

1:09.3

in that top four mix in the east, but clearly thus far they've over achieved swap out Jason

1:17.8

Kidd at coach for coach Budenhulzer and he's done a fantastic job and then they're just playing this five out

1:26.1

with Brooke Lopez as a three-point threat gets a lot of space for Janus. So all those pieces were predictably there. I think what's been

1:36.5

unpredictable about the box or where they've significantly over achieved, one on the defensive end.

1:42.0

They're playing fantastic defense, led by Janus, whose defense is really getting to that like all league level for me. We'll see where it is at the end of the year, but some of the games I've seen, just his length, his ability to close, recover, obviously impact shots around the rim, and rebound which is how you finish a defensive possession

2:06.6

is providing pretty big value. So Milwaukee's coming in with not just an improved offense, but a really good offense and a really good defense.

2:16.0

And that's a sustainable formula. In fact, as of recording this, the Bucks are outscoring opponents by about 12 points per game, after 13

2:27.7

games into the season.

2:29.2

So if you look at the numbers historically, only about 30 something teams, in fact 32 teams have

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