Make Or Miss Podcast #13 - Award Season

After giving Rob a week off to talk Jazz with Ben Dowsett, we're back at it for the end of the beginning. By which I mean we hand out our versions of the NBA awards. Well, I hand out versions of them and Rob cheats to fit his favored guys into the mix. He also wrote (!) about some of his picks at PPP. I take some final shots at this seasons' Timberwolves, but it's not my fault, I was goaded into it by what Rob had to say (after the jump) about Kevin Love!

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Completely unrelated
- I have a post up on Hickory High about the role luck plays in the playoffs. Look for a ton of playoff-related stuff over there.
- Kevin Hetrick of GotBuckets.com ran a statistical comparison of the SportVU-based rim protection values I've been looking at all year with some broader defensive indicators and found that rim protection explains about 35-40% of the variation in DRAPM for big men, which is right in line with my estimate of how big a part of power forward/center defense rim protection represents.
- Appeared on ClipperBlog Live on Tuesday and Wednesday. At the end of Wednesday's show, I stick my neck out with my one (to this point) playoff prediction: Clippers in 5.