0-9 when Nate plays significant time
7-6 when he doesn't.
Below is where this faggot, homo, cacksucker, got this stat from. He takes the info. from the article that is relevant to his circular, flawed thought mechanisms. What she does not mention, though, is that the writer concludes that other players, like Douglass and Duhon, actually have a worse on the court effect on Knicks winning, as per the plus minus stats, so far.
Beck's friend (an expert basketball analyst) states that the sample conspiracy theorists are using: 0-9, which includes three lost overtime games, is too small and skews things to make it appear that Nate is the cause of our losses. If we had won those three OT games he says it would look a lot different.
I'm sure that Dr. Kblack25 can't argue this empirical data from a trained researcher.
Beck's expert attributes the 3 wins to the knicks shooting 44.6% from three, after having shot 31.8%.
By Howard Beck, New York Times:
Coach Mike D’Antoni benched Nate Robinson last week and the Knicks promptly won three straight games. Cause and effect? It was hard to say. But digging a little deeper, the findings were compelling.
A scan of the first 22 games showed that
the Knicks were 0-9 when Robinson played 19 minutes or more, and 7-6 when he played 12 minutes or less (including 10 games in which he did not play).
That seemed significant enough.
But realizing that looks, and statistics, can be deceiving, I reached out to Kevin Pelton, an analyst for Basketball Prospectus. He is also an unabashed Robinson fan (both attended the University of Washington), but Pelton’s spreadsheet does not include a Huskies bump.
In an e-mail message, Pelton noted that the plus-minus data — the relative scoring difference when Robinson is in the game — somewhat contradicts the above won-lost figures.
Pelton writes:
“According to BasketballValue.com, the Knicks have been outscored by 5.2 points per 100 possessions (a little longer than the typical up-tempo New York game, which features about 94 of them) when Robinson is on the court. When he’s on the bench, they have been slightly better, getting outscored by 3.2 points per 100 possessions.
“The difference is not as striking as the 0-9 stat, nor is it anywhere near the worst on the team or even in the backcourt. For example, New York is 6.2 points worse per 100 possessions when the starting point guard, Chris Duhon, plays; and the rookie Toney Douglas makes the team a full 8.2 points worse per 100 possessions.
“Mike D’Antoni has credited Douglas’s defensive energy for the team playing better since he took on Robinson’s playing time, but the team actually defends better with Robinson on the floor.
What explains this discrepancy between the 0-9 stat and the plus-minus data? It looks like just one of those things that show up when we deal with small samples. The record with Robinson might look different if the Knicks had won any of the three overtime games they lost with him in the lineup.”
Pelton also suggests that the won-lost breakdown based on Robinson’s minutes is arbitrary. For instance, the Knicks were a plus-7 during the 12 minutes Robinson played in a Nov. 18 victory over Indiana. Would the Knicks have lost the game had Robinson played a few minutes more?
“It seems hard to believe,” Pelton writes.
He concludes:
“None of this is to necessarily say D’Antoni made a mistake in benching Robinson. Besides the fact that Douglas is a larger part of the team’s future, plus-minus numbers are still unreliable this early in the season. That goes double, however, for reading too much into the Knicks’ 3-1 record over the four games since Robinson was removed from the rotation. That seems much more attributable to the fact that New York has made 44.6 percent of its 3-pointers in that span after hitting them at a 31.8 percent clip previously than it does to Robinson sitting on the bench.”
