What I don't understand is the media talk about poor advanced stats for reasons why a team won't make the playoffs. You never hear them talk about non playoff teams with good advanced stats as a rational for not making the playoffs. Its always some other intangible or injury or coach or distraction or missing piece.
Its like the media has hundreds of logical reasons why you can miss the playoffs despite advanced stats but there are zero good reasons to make the playoffs with bad advanced stats...
I knows the advanced stats thing has been beaten to death, that's not what I'm getting at. Its articles like these that never make mention of the good stats of bad teams. It's like they keep looking for rational to support their early season predictions.
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