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A blog mostly about basketball stats and the Brooklyn Nets. In real life, I teach college and write about movies: https://letterboxd.com/ddibbern/
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I was at Barclays last night and I won this little notebook... for free!
January 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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I was at Barclays last night. And that ending was about as heartbreaking as I've experienced. #NetsWorld
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Thinking of a box score as a 10-5-3 game, just as thinking of it as a 5-5-5 game, might be revealing. #NBA #NetsWorld
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December 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Triple Nickel might be more revealing than the Triple Double. #NBA #NetsWorld
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December 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Danny Wolf is a beautiful--but perhaps inefficient--passer. #NetsWorld #NBA
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December 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Claxton has become an assists-machine, not a passing-machine, because Jordi Fernandez has designed the offense along a Galactic Center Model. #NBA #NetsWorld
Claxton has Become an Assists-Machine, not a Passing-Machine
I wrote the other day that Claxton was getting a lot more assists this year partly because he was better at seeing passing lanes. I knew at the time that this was only partly true; in fact, in a lo…
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December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Quarterly Report: We're Getting Better #NBA #NetsWorld
Quarterly Report: We’re Getting Better
The season is now about ¼ done. The Nets started the season off terribly, but we keep getting better. I was at Barclays last night for our win and both the team and the fans were starting to feel l…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Terance Mann is an intriguing High Efficiency but Low Frequency Shooter. #NBA #NetsWorld
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November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Claxton is getting a lot more assists this year partly because he's much more consciously assessing potential passing lanes. #NBA #NetsWorld
Claxton Has Become a Better Passer
Claxton is playing much better this year. His improved passing skills are one of the most surprising new aspects of his game. Of the 53 centers that Basketball Reference currently considers to be “…
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November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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One way you can judge defensive skills is by looking at position-relative stocks per possession #NBA #NetsWorld
Nets Defense: Position-Relative Stocks
Sometimes when people talk about defense, they make reference to the “stocks” stat—that is, steals plus blocks. I was curious how our guys have been doing vis a vis stocks. But I was also curious a…
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November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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There is Hope: Michael Porter, Jr., is Becoming a More Explosive Scorer #NBA #NetsWorld
There is Hope: Michael Porter, Jr., is Becoming a More Explosive Scorer
Michael Porter, Jr., has been easing his way into being the team’s leader, clearly a position he was eager to inhabit. And it’s working out well. His scoring has been improving dramatically. This c…
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November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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There is hope: our defense is getting better. Much better. #NBA #NetsWorld
There is Hope: Our Defense Continues to Improve
In the first five games, we had the worst defense in the league. But there was hope, since there were (admittedly, brief) stretches last year when Jordi Fernandez inspired the team to play great de…
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November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Michael Porter's transformation with the Nets has an uncanny similarity with a previous player's transformation. #NBA #NetsWorld
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November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Claxton’s Game is Getting Better for the First Time in Years. #NBA #NetsWorld
Claxton’s Game is Developing for the First Time in Years
At the beginning of the year, Nic Claxton was telling everyone that his back was in better shape than it had been in years. I have a vague memory of Sarah Kustock mentioning that he’d become father…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Four of our five rookies are giving me glimmers of hope. #NBA #NetsWorld
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November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The Nets' defense is getting better. Just a tiny bit. #NBA #NetsWorld
Our Defense is Getting Better
Our defense is still bad. But it’s getting better. This chart shows the trendline of our opponents’ Pts/G over the first ten games. The dots represent actual bits of data. That line is a trendline …
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November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The Nets defense is terrible, but the flickers of hope from last year should give us flickers of hope this year. #NetsWorld #NBA
The First Five Games: Defense
As Lucas Kaplan noted recently, we may be on pace to be one of the worst defensive teams of all time. But there was a brief stretch last season when we were one of the best defensive teams in the l…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This year's Nets are 58% old and 42% new. #NetsWorld #NBA
The First Five Games: Line-ups
One thing we’ve learned from the first few games is that this is a very different team compared to last year. The chart below compares our total minutes played last year with this year. The gray ro…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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How bad are the Nets? We're on pace to win 13, maybe 17, depending on how you want to calculate it. #NetsWorld #NBA
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October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The Nets' pre-season stats gave me some glimpses of hope for what will certainly be a tough season. #NetsWorld #NBA
Pre-Season Stats, 2025-26
What can the Nets’ pre-season stats tell us? Most fans understand that pre-season stats aren’t worth much. True, they’re not a reliable metric to predict a team’s overall winning percentage. But pr…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I predicted the W-L totals for every team in the NBA. #NetsWorld #NBA
NBA Predictions, 2025-26
For the second year in a row, I am predicting the wins totals for every NBA team.  I did pretty well with last year’s predictions. I’d say that this year’s predictions are still an advanced Beta, w…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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My Nets prediction from last year was also surprisingly good (though, to be fair, I got lucky). #NetsWorld #NBA
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October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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My NBA W-L predictions last year were--surprisingly--better than other people's predictions. #NetsWorld #NBA
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October 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Summer League stats don't mean a whole lot, but they can offer us some basic insights (for example: Drew Timme rocks!). #NetsWorld
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July 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I was surprised by the Nets’ draft. I was surprised by Demin at #8 (instead of Maluach or Murray-Boyles?). I was surprised—like most people—that we used all of our picks. In have to admit that I feel a bit disappointed. But I have to remind myself that Marks has been good at the draft. #NetsWorld
June 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM