Patrick Wales-Dinan

Cross-Country & Track Coach w/@mustangs_xctf | Data Analytics manager with @cmtyactionmarin

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@NateSilver538 Nate do you have senate forecasts?

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@KeithSmithNBA Are you updating @spotrac cap sheets in real time or do you wait until things settle down?

[Tomek Kordylewski @Timi_093]

How is that not a foul?

[Chris Mannix @SIChrisMannix]

The Celtics are +166 in the 654 minutes Jayson Tatum has played this postseason.

They are +0 in the 118 without him.

[Hardwood Paroxysm @HPbasketball]

the full quote is even better because he talks about how the best player guards the other team's best player.

which is

"please put Tatum on him and take him off the center pre-switch so we can run 1-5. Please"

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@CTabatabaie Can we focus on the game

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@KeithSmithNBA I mean I hear what you’re saying. I think a very resonable response to that is that this team is talented enough defensively to adjust and prevent the heat from hitting 20+ 3s. And if they didn’t that would be unacceptable.

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@KeithSmithNBA Seriously? I appreciate the honesty but it implies that there exists an acceptable way that they could lose this series. To me there are some things that are more fundamental. They have more talent by a lot, losing to this team is kind of unacceptable regardless of how it happens

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@KeithSmithNBA I am too as long as they don’t play these guys in the finals

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@John_Zannis This is the most honest commentary I’ve seen. Denver is a better team, that’s why the Celtics played poorly.

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@Marc_DAmico If the only thing that matters to you is a title, tonight was a scary moment. They aren’t better than the Nuggets. They are better than everyone else, just not these guys

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@RealBobManning Hope not. The Cs can’t beat this team

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

Keith I’m a statistic guy by trade, this is incorrect. Not all high leverage situations are equal. Not all clutch situations are equal. Not all opponents are equal. If you don’t understand that then you shouldn’t make comments like this. You need to differentiate

[Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA]

This year has been rough. I'll give that.

But the stats show he's been one of the best clutch players in the league for years now.

So, unless you come with some stats that show he's actually got more subpar performances, this is just narrative nonsense.

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@KeithSmithNBA Keith, it even trying to be obnoxious. People doubt he can do it against a better team. If he had dropped 40 in game 7 of the ECF last year and they had won. That wouldn’t have proven your point to lots of people. Because the Cs were better than the Heat.

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@KeithSmithNBA Keith the point is that no one believes the 76ers or bucks were better than the Celtics. That’s the WHOLE point. We want to see him do it against a team that is probably better. NBA finals and Denver/Warriors (when they are zoned in) is the only time this will matter

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@bjl2855 @mattyglesias @NateSilver538 They kick the extra point because there is social, media, cultural pressure to do so. There is not reason to do it more often than not

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@bjl2855 @mattyglesias @NateSilver538 This is exactly what people don’t get. Math works always. People think the point of math is to win every game. The point is to maximize your chance to win the most games. If you think there is math that guarantees you win the games when you want then you’re mistaken.

[Patrick Wales-Dinan @pjwd_]

@NBACelticsGuy Statistically this isn’t accurate. The Celtics have shot 35.2 and 34.1% from three in two consecutive weeks this season that could easily be lower one week and higher the other week statistically speaking which if you know anything about statistics you also know to be true.