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The Southeast Race Heats Up

Intro by Rob L on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 at 1:28 pm | permalink | trackback | comments |
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Original Article: http://www.nysun.com/article/48518

...with nine weeks to go in the regular season, it looks as if the Southeast Division will be one of the most entertaining races. Each of the three presumed leaders has a good chance to win it and gain a first-tier seeding in the playoffs. Although four games separate the three teams, other indicators including team health suggest that this race will go down to the wire.

The Wiz? The Magic? The Heat? Which team will make the fewest mistakes and stop getting hurt so much? The Magic are still a little young for me to think they'll have the presence to finish right. The Heat are old but that also means "championship experience". The Wiz are crazy and they don't play defense.

I thus agree with Johnson's prognosis. This will be the most entertaining race to watch in the league.

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Jon Nichols said on February 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pm :

Speaking of old, just throwing something out there...

Average age of league's 7 best teams:
Dallas Mavericks - 27.3
Phoenix Suns - 29.2
Utah Jazz - 25.1
San Antonio Spurs - 29.6
Detroit Pistons - 28.3
Houston Rockets - 27.8
Cleveland Cavaliers - 27.5
...

Miami Heat - 28.8

Rob L said on February 14th, 2007 at 1:00 am :

Yeah, but I have a feeling that this might be a case where I'd like to know the mean also.

Martin J said on February 14th, 2007 at 2:13 am :

Thanks for posting the article. I'm glad y'all liked it.

Team age can be deceiving. The Heat skew young because of end of the bench youngsters like Quinn and Simien. Conversely the Suns have geezers at the end of their pine like Jalen Rose and Pat Burke and Eric Piatkowski so they look older.
Team age ought crossed with minutes played or perhaps it should just be rotation age, an average of everyone who plays 15 minutes a game, every game, or something like that.

-MJ

Jon Nichols said on February 14th, 2007 at 6:35 pm :

If you look at it, the Spurs actually use a lot of older players in their rotation, so I think they might be the actual oldest team in the league.