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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

David Locke introduces you to a new statistic, points gained. How teams and players compare to the performance of an average player, Locke shows how the stat has worked over seasons past. Then he analyzes the offense and defenses in the NBA to which play the smartest basketball. In segment 2 he looks at the Western Conference predictions and a surprise team in the top 4 of the Western Conference and a don't bury the Spurs quite yet. In the Eastern Conference one team is superior to all others and then two teams are on the verge of moving inside the top 3 of the Eastern Conference. The numbers say Cleveland won't be awful in fact, they make the playoffs. But the numbers may not understand LeBron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is locked on NBA. I'm David Lock. Are you ready to get geeky?
0:04.0	We're going to do something a little different today instead of a guest.
0:06.0	I'm going to introduce you to a new stat called Points Gained.
0:10.0	That's how a way to evaluate offensive players, teams, and their efficiencies, and we're going to try it for predictions for the upcoming season.
0:17.0	Which teams, according to the stat, points gained, look best.
0:20.0	A surprise Western Conference Offensive juggernaut, an Eastern conference team ready
0:26.1	to explode on the scene, not named Portland, Philadelphia, or Toronto, and the value of LeBron to be tested.
0:35.0	All of those things coming up in a points gained addition.
0:38.2	Predictions for the 1819 season on Locked on NBA. You are locked on the NBA part of the locked on podcast network.
0:48.0	Welcome to locked on NBA Thursday Edition. I'm David Lock. Often on this show we have a
0:56.4	guest and do an interview. Today we're going to do something different. I'm going to introduce
0:59.8	you to a statistic. Formerly for those you follow me at lockdown sports on
1:04.3	Twitter known as Pact we've changed it to points gained because we think it's a bit
1:08.4	easier to follow and take you through what the statistic is and then Western conference predictions
1:15.7	and eastern conference predictions.
1:19.4	This is a stat that I use, uh, somewhat proprietary, haven't given it out a lot.
1:24.7	It's not used by the big ESPN, it's not used by the big whatever else.
1:29.8	But I think it's one of the best metrics on how to value an offensive player. I used it for the
1:34.4	first time last year at a team level to predict offensive capability and had some
1:41.4	success and I'll explain that to you and then we'll get to the
1:44.5	predictions so that's the plan today a little different no guess a lot of me
1:48.0	uh... pretty geeky stuff tomorrow on my local podcast locked on jazz i'll be hosting a live show, so if you have any questions
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