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Do superstars influence defensive shooting luck?

New post following up the discussion of shooting luck for defenses like the Nets: https://backpicks.com/2022/01/15/do-superstars-like-harden-and-durant-influence-opponent-shooting-luck/

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i think judging lebron teams by their regular season numbers isnt necessarily wise lol

_kags

I thought about this a lot during the Cavs rampages through the finals. Even when their defense got reallllly bad (-3.3 rDrtg in 2018), they seemed to never get teams best offensive performances in the playoffs. How does a bad defense hold the Raptors 9.3 pp100 under their season average? My only thinking was that the Cavs' 3-point hurricane machine just demoralized the Raps from playing their best.

Iain Soder


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