No excuse, but it took me until 3:17am last night or this morning to get to my interview with Brian Windhorst on Wednesday’s Pardon My Take while I was bottle-feeding my 6-month-old son. My son drank ferociously as if he hadn’t had a drink since 1:06am that night. During the interview, Brian and the boys were hoping to find out Kyrie Irving’s pre- and post-eclipse stats, with the path of the total eclipse almost in Dallas. In theory, it looks like Kyrie has stepped up his game heading into the playoffs.
Brian was hoping to provide some stats on his ESPN Stats and Info account, so I figured I could jump in and help out right away after getting the boys back to bed. So I did what any ambitious, self-respecting statistician would do: I went right back to sleep. Then I got up and did a bunch of other necessary things before finding the time to fire up the stats machine.
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And as you can see from the very pixelated Microsoft One Note table above, you’re right to assume this was made by a very tired table creator, but Kyrie’s stats actually look a bit worse in most categories since Eclipse, and slightly better in others. BTW, “effFG”?? Really? Why did you add the “ff”? Great job, but tired.
Kyrie has seemed to have a bit of a downturn since the eclipse. I did the math quarter by quarter and he scored 23% of his points in the first quarter before the eclipse, but only 12.7% in the first quarter after the eclipse. What could be causing this slow start to a game after a total eclipse? My guess is a mild vitamin D deficiency. Or maybe it’s just because he’s become a father. I really feel that’s a possibility now.
But that guy is still going strong. I don’t know why, but Dallas is his happy place and he’s played everywhere he could have played, like Boston or Brooklyn wanted to. Things may have looked really flat for parts of his career, but it’s clear he’s been recovering.
If you haven’t seen our interview with the boys yet, please click here.
