Sunday, January 29, 2006

Danger: small samples sizes at work

So let's just assume I started this post with several sentences about the danger of thinking you can make meaningful observations based on a couple of games.
That glossed over, wasn't the whole point of the Davis-Szczerbiak trade supposed to be that Wally was a better offensive complement to Pierce if an inferior and unathletic defender? So am I allowed to think it odd that in the first two games of the new world order we're scoring about ~17 less points on offense than our season average and in turn holding the other team to about ~22 less points?

From a team that was scoring 98 points/game and giving up 100 points/game before the trade, the 84-79 win over Sacramento and the 83-79 loss to Milwaukee weren't quite what I was expecting.

Jus' saying.

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