“Small sample size, but . . .” is my favorite sentence of every October and November of every year. The early NBA season is routinely weird, and it’s filled with trends and statistics that will undoubtedly change and become irrelevant within a few weeks or so.
The fun part is sorting through the noise and seeing which trends are not just trends but something else. What’s going to stick? What’s absurd in an unsustainable way, and what’s just plain absurd? These are the hard-hitting questions that this committee of one will examine.
To do so, we’re going to go by one simple metric that will be able to solve all of our questions.