SALT LAKE CITY — Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 85-68 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.
This Triple Team is going to be all about what some statisticians call “thin slicing,” getting a very limited amount of information and drawing conclusions from it.
When you do that in basketball to evaluate a player, I think the best way to do it is look at some of the things that a player tries to do, regardless of whether or not they’re successful. The difference between a bad 30% 3-point shooter and a very good 40% 3-point shooter is about one made three every two or three games; there’s just not enough information to tell the difference.