The Scalabrine Watch Week 14-15

This season the NBA has listened to one of my many thoguht and has started to track a players +/- during the course of individual games. Due to my dislike of Brian Scalabrine, I am going to track he's performance in a weekly post called The Scalabrine Watch. 3 Million a year for what?

Celtics 117 Heat 87: 15
How could you win the World Championship and within 2 years be so god damn bad? How?

Game Stats: 17 Minutes, 1-2, 1 Points, 5 Rebounds, 1 Assists

Celtics 96 Mavericks 90: -1
17 minutes without a single rebound is exactly what you want from your power forward.

Game Stats: 17 Minutes, 0-0, 0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 2 Assists

Celtics 113 Cavs 114: -3
The man is unstoppable. 5 points in a game must have commanded a constant double team.

Game Stats: 18 Minutes, 2-5, 5 Points, 1 Rebounds, 1 Assists

Celtics 111 Clippers 100: 1
Only 7 minutes? Doc must have seen better matchups this game.

Game Stats: 7 Minutes, 1-1, 3 Points, 1 Rebounds, 2 Assists

Celtics 88 Timberwolves 86: -1
19 minutes no points and yet he still finishes at only -1. Does he inspire teammates to pick up the slack when he's on the court. Is there a way to bottle this inspiration, and have a decent player on the court at the same time?

Game Stats: 19 Minutes, 0-3, 0 Points, 3 Rebounds, 0 Assists

Celtics 98 Spurs 90: 3
Airballs, travels, horrible passes. Every time you saw Scals on the court he was doing something embarrassing. Yet a positive 3. Amazing.

Game Stats: 16 Minutes, 1-5, 2 Points, 4 Rebounds, 0 Assists

Celtics 104 Pacers 97: 6
Of course he finishes of the scoring period with a solid +/-. But of course he only mildly contributed to the actual game.

Game Stats: 16 Minutes, 1-3, 3 Points, 2 Rebounds, 2 Assists

Overall Week Performance: +20
7 games and Scals averaged just over 2 points per contest in over 15 minutes per game. One basket per 15 minutes on the court and yet he finishes at +20. Unreal.

Weeks Stats: 110 Minutes, 6-9, 15 Points, 16 Rebounds, 8 Assists

Overall Season Performance: +37
And after a ridiculous week, led by a ridiculous +/- against Miami, Scals more than doubles his +/- seasonal total and looks pretty good for the remainder of the season in staying above 0.

Season Stats:10:35 MPG, .316 FG%, 1.9 PPG, 1.5 RPG, 0.8 APG

Numbers On Steroids: Mickey Mantle

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you. This week it's throwing a curve ball and looking at All Time Great Yankees. Players that we know did not take steroids to see if this gives a defense to any of the players 'convicted' by Numbers on Steroids. Time to look at my dad's favorite athlete of all time, Mickey Mantle. Averages Say: What's with the mysterious dip at 27 and then the uptick? At Bats Per Home Run Says: That's a mighty jump from 22 to 24 Explaining As If It Was the 90s If you take a look at the numbers there are two time frames which in the 1990s would be questioned. First would be the incredible leap he took from his first year in the big leagues to his first MVP season in 1956. His batting average jumped 50 points. His slugging percentage jumped 90 points and he hit 15 more homers than his previous high. This wouldn't merrit a conviction nowadays though because the young age he...

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Guest Post: Thoughts on Sabathia Signing

I asked Grutt what his thoughts were on the Sabathia signing and I thought his response pretty much nailed it. So here it is. I don’t know. Every year I get a little more disenchanted with baseball. Yea, it’s great we signed the top pitching free agent. But we were supposed to. No team was even in the ballpark of the Yankees offer yet they still needed to jump from the already ridiculous price of $140 million to $160 million to close the deal. Now I hear we are going to sign more pitchers who will also get large contracts and the position player gaps are still glaring. Each new, large contract just adds to the feeling that the Yanks are supposed to win it all. “I think we have a good chance this year.” That is a lost feeling. If they don’t win I’ll wonder why, like there has to be some other reason besides that it’s a sport you can never predict how things will work out and some years just aren’t yours to be won. If they win I will be pleasantly smug. It gets a little more...

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