Jimmy's (jinx)predictions in last 4 years: 2021: Suns (lose finals against Bucks) 2022: Celtics (lose finals against Warriors) 2023: Celtics (lose against Heat in conference finals) 2024: Nuggets (lose in 2nd round against Twolves) It's getting worse
Game designer here. Great vid but what is happening to NBA can't be called rubberbanding. The 3-pts swings can happen equally for both teams, they do not favor the losing team. There is no rule connection between being the losing team and going on a hot streak. If it were rubberbanding we would actually see much more close games. What we actually see is bigger discrepancies caused by teams relying more on a strategy that is higher in risk to reward ratio.
Thought he used game design as an example rubberbanding in the NBA vs actual mechanical rubberbanding is highly different since this is a CPU vs actual human
@mojoklags7599 As soon as that shot dropped live I told my friend they gotta send him to therapy. Bro can't catch a break the Nuggets bullying him at this point. Even when AD plays out his mind he still gets a game winner dropped on his dome 😭
Just gotta remember 1 thing regarding the playoffs in any sport, “That’s why they play the games”. You work with stellar teams with a VERY small number of games compared to the regular season and all it takes is 1 bad run of loses and bam the predicted playoff picture gets lit on fire.
The unpredictability hides a more important theme - the global NBA pool is so large and talented that any G - leaguer can turn into Steph or Kyrie on a good night. You can't predict what happens if you load each scenario with excessive talent. When I was a kid in the '50's you always knew the Celtics would win because the other teams had less talent and no system. There weren't any Serbians, Slovenians, Greeks and Lithuanians to gum up the laws of chance in my day.
The fact that we love Jimmy goes to show that a good essay is all about presentation. He develops a clear thesis, presents arguments, and provides evidence for each, before pulling it all together with a conclusion. Brilliant.
It's all about momentum. A #1 seed can fall behind and get dominated, or they could get hot and come back. It's what makes the games fun to watch, because you don't know who's going to win.
I think it's a coaching problem. Coaches don't change their game plan depending on their lead, compounding on the volatility. If, for instance, a team makes a lot of 3s early on, building up a 20 point lead, the team keeps chucking 3s. That means the other team only needs your team to miss 6 3s and them to make 6 3s and it's a 2 point game. However, if instead the team that built up a 20 point lead focused on scoring high efficiency 2s after building up the lead, then that would put the pressure on the other team. At that point, the other team needs to make 20 more 3s than you make 2s to catch up, which is very unlikely. Sprinkle in the fact that if you start focusing on 2s, the other team is gonna be less focused on defending 3s against you, making your 3s easier, and the lead becomes a lot more insurmountable. If I was coaching and my team was up 20, I'd bench anyone taking a 3 unless they were wide open and had around 40% 3PT percentage.
Sound analysis! Shooting 3s excessively is a risk of its own and becoming over reliant on it after building up a lead ends up like Houston's infamous 27 missed 3 pointers record.
Jxmy I've been a subscriber for a minute and this post was by far one of your most interesting and well done. You had me at the graph and classical music interlude. My jaw dropped at the breakdown with the three graphs showing the impact of the 3 pointer on game outcome over the years. Masterful.
I wonder if coaches should be calling quicker timeouts to curtail these scoring outbursts. I remember that was quite common in the past anytime momentum severely shifted. A stat regarding called timeouts over the years would be interesting.
They should change the rules and give each team a couple extra timeouts per game to stop those runs and allow for more challenges. But the league is about money, they want to see 150 point games. Adam silver will probably add a 4 point line.
I've always been curious in this 3-point-shooting NBA if there is an additional advantage to shooting threes: the offensive rebounds. Given that the floor is more spaced and the bounce off the missed shot goes farther/higher, I've wondered if just looking at 3pt% doesn't convey the whole advantage if the offense gains an advantage on offensive rebounds, too. Thanks for the great video.
The NBA doesn’t have rubberbanding… it was an unnecessary comparison, I’m not sure why he said that. Rubberbanding implies there is some mechanic or rule that helps the team that is behind catch up (better items, faster driving speed). His video does demonstrate how shooting more 3s causes higher variance in game results and leads to crazy scoring runs, but that doesn’t = rubberbanding. You’re just as likely to see a crazy blowout due to good 3pt shooting, but he didn’t include any info on that. If you google the NBAs blowout problem, it’s part of the same equation with the rise of 3pt shooting. In summary: If there’s no objective ADVANTAGE to playing from behind, there’s no rubberbanding.
@@rickyrico900 There is no inherent mechanic to keep games close, but you have to consider this: what does a team down by 20 try to do? Catch up. Teams down will be chucking threes left and right to catch up. In a league almost entirely driven by the three-pointer (and winning games based on threes made), it's entirely plausible to say this is as close to rubberbanding as we'll get in the NBA.
@@dylan9013 i know what point he’s trying to make, that’s still not rubberbanding. The result may seem similar in certain games (crazy comebacks), but it’s due to a choice by teams to opt for high risk high reward playstyle in hopes to catch up. Not by any inherent mechanic designed to help them come back. It’s like how in boxing you can choose to focus on pure power for a desperation KO in later rounds when you assume you’ll lose on technicals. Might work out, probably won’t, but either way that’s not rubberbanding. Not trying to be a jerk, just nitpicking. This is a great video otherwise!
@@dylan9013that’s just not true I seen comebacks where they only made like 1 3 but still closed the gap players are just better this is more like that super team argument where every starter is getting to a level where they can score 30+ just look what Derrick white did last night
@@redhorsepapiinstead of just spewing conjecture why don’t you actually engage and talk about the numbers and graphs he uses and argue against them? Just saying they’re random numbers and graphs doesn’t make it true lol.
@@PreacherJenkinsI mean it’s simply teaching a concept in a funny way. Comparing 3P variance and the wild swings in games to Mario Kart. I highly doubt 95% of people watching this knew what the rubber band effect meant before this. Obviously there’s no built in one in the NBA, (in before conspiracy theorists) but the 3 ball can be the great equalizer, no lead is safe, etc.
nah but this playoffs is amazing, not just each game being unbelievable and a thriller, but the storybook matchups, Lakers vs Nuggets running it back, the Heat - Celtics and Mavs - Clippers rivalry returning... I do think the Nuggets will win it though, Jokic is just on another level from everyone else as we have observed these past few years
yknow I was not expecting a game mechanic from mario kart 64 being used as an analogy in this video about the NBA Playoffs but to be honest I'm pleased to see it lmao
I guess when you think about it Basketball has always been *"A game of runs"* but now that teams are taking AND making so many threes a "run" be really hittin' different😂
I am curious how many offers Jimmy has had to join sports entertainment companies. Content continues to be on point. Filled with facts, reason, and beautiful graphics.
I think one of the things that can explain that graph where shooting more threes wasn't a good predictor of wins. It is how the offense is structured. The 'spread' or 'five out' offense moves the defensive rebounders much further from the rim so the famous 'wall' of rebounding the 76ers had with Charles Barkley and Moses Malone playing together, or Mark Eaton and Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Lambier, and Hot Rod, etc. they were all closer to the rim so when they boxed out it created a 'pocket' around the rim that almost any miss was theirs for the taking. Now you see players getting as many if not more offensive rebounds as defensive.
Loved the video. And you're so right. When my dad took me to my first ball game I learned that when a team is up by 10 it's basically a done game. Now 15 years later look at the NBA.
I mean, when the best 2 players are hurt, the third best player is not in good condition, a starter is playing through injury and 2 of those loses were extremely close. This I my opinion just looks horrible for the pacers who already had a favorable matchup against the bucks without taking into account the injured players
I mean... Giannis still hasnt played in that series, Dame is injured now, although Khris is playing, he's still not in the best shape of his life. Not that unpredictable for the Pacers eliminate them considering all those factors.
i predicted the pacers would win even if the bucks had dame and giannis, if they still had mike budenholzer or whoever, i would pick the bucks to win, the bucks have sucked with doc
12:05 Think that's partly because of the officiating changes reverting back to a more fair officiating paradigm for defenders. Could probably parse that out from point differentials durring the regular season.
When you put the 3 graphs in context, I think its also worth adding how many 3s were made by the teams - because I'm sure the number of 3s back in the 90s were far lesser than ones made in the following decades :) That puts the stat in better context as to why the win rate is far higher - if teams in 90s made just 5-6 3s a game, and made more 3s than their opponents in those aspects, of course the win rate isn't going to be as high if most of the points in the games were typically 2s.
Pretty funny that the Celtics are gonna win it all the one year you don’t pick the Celtics lmao. I had them winning the past two years as well so don’t feel bad, but stick to your guns next time!!
I still remember watching older nba games when the league pass was free during the first covid lockdown and noticing how many, nowadays, open threes were being passed on.
It's be because of how weak defense has become, the only way a team can guarantee a lead is to just keep scoring and hope you canoutscore your opponent becore they rally
Lakers losing to the nuggets was very predictable. And the Celtics almost always give up a game when an opponents star player misses a game, it’s like they don’t even try. They lost to la without lebum and ad
idk when you're retiring from yt my guy, but MAAAANN. these videos are grated. you deliver every time. i think we all need to give you your flowers king!!
I want to see an analysis of playoff series over time. It used to be that the #1 seed would always sweep the #8 seed, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Does getting home court advantage throughout the playoffs matter? It mattered in 2008 and 2010. Having competitive playoff series is so much better for the NBA, and who doesn't love seeing a top seed get upset? So what's the history of of playoff sweeps and competitive series?
Just to add to how unpredictable the playoffs are, the Mavs almost won when they were down 31 at one point… crazy
Congrats Luka 🤣
They even got the lead at one point halfway through the fourth quarter 😮!
All of their games were Clippers vs refs
"Almost won" so it was a fake comeback and they still ended up losing? Congrats to the Mavs 🥳 🥳
and yet, they lost, so not really that unpredictable
Jxmy I will never forget the day you said that the Suns would close out the Finals in 2021 when we were up 2-0, nothing has been the same since...
lol
We got swept 😔
I was rooting for the Suns, best team to never win a title.
@@jumpvelocity3953Nah that’s the 2018 rockets. Took the superteam warriors to 7 games
@@jumpvelocity3953Likely not even top ten on that list.
Jimmy's (jinx)predictions in last 4 years:
2021: Suns (lose finals against Bucks)
2022: Celtics (lose finals against Warriors)
2023: Celtics (lose against Heat in conference finals)
2024: Nuggets (lose in 2nd round against Twolves)
It's getting worse
Please don’t let bro pick the T’wolves to win it all in 2025 (I’m a wolves fan)
man didnt choose the celtics for once and then the celtics won
0:32 I'm really starting to think that JxmyHighroller is a curse.
LMAOOO
Game designer here. Great vid but what is happening to NBA can't be called rubberbanding. The 3-pts swings can happen equally for both teams, they do not favor the losing team. There is no rule connection between being the losing team and going on a hot streak. If it were rubberbanding we would actually see much more close games. What we actually see is bigger discrepancies caused by teams relying more on a strategy that is higher in risk to reward ratio.
It is true. but honestly does not need a game designer to understand that difference 😄
refs help teams comeback too, nobody likes a blowout
Jxmy videos always have fantastic direction, fascinating data analysis, and misapplied jargon
Thought he used game design as an example rubberbanding in the NBA vs actual mechanical rubberbanding is highly different since this is a CPU vs actual human
Correct, but as soon as I saw "Game designer" I proceeded to push up imaginary glasses and read the rest in a nasally, holier than thou voice.
Buzzer beater so nasty even AD celebrated with the bench 😭
Yooo!😏 Lmao 🤣 but why it legit looked that way🤷♂️😅
That's the funniest moment of the playoffs so far lol
The Nuggets giving AD PTSD fr
@mojoklags7599 As soon as that shot dropped live I told my friend they gotta send him to therapy. Bro can't catch a break the Nuggets bullying him at this point. Even when AD plays out his mind he still gets a game winner dropped on his dome 😭
commenting jokes you saw other places good one 👍
Just gotta remember 1 thing regarding the playoffs in any sport, “That’s why they play the games”. You work with stellar teams with a VERY small number of games compared to the regular season and all it takes is 1 bad run of loses and bam the predicted playoff picture gets lit on fire.
The unpredictability hides a more important theme - the global NBA pool is so large and talented that any G - leaguer can turn into Steph or Kyrie on a good night. You can't predict what happens if you load each scenario with excessive talent. When I was a kid in the '50's you always knew the Celtics would win because the other teams had less talent and no system. There weren't any Serbians, Slovenians, Greeks and Lithuanians to gum up the laws of chance in my day.
@@philwilson609ur a smart guy, do you consider Jordan the goat?
Poor Miami... they can go a bad run of loses and they have Bam
@@morapelimotaung7374 Ain't nobody stopping Bam's fadeaways tho 🤷🏻♂
This is also the beauty of March madness
4:00 him posting this after the Clippers lost their 31 point lead and nearly lost the game vs the Mavs is real timely lol.
U slow
My NBA RUclips is two dudes at this point.
1. Jimmy for advanced breakdowns and content
2. GOAT for my weekly recap.
It's literally all you need
and flight for the reactions
and @modernmba for my economics
add Thinking Basketball in there and the JJ Redick Podcast (only when Legler is on) and you’re truly sorted
rusty buckets is goated for being a normal dude who knows ball
if you dont have awful coaching i feel bad for you
The fact that we love Jimmy goes to show that a good essay is all about presentation. He develops a clear thesis, presents arguments, and provides evidence for each, before pulling it all together with a conclusion. Brilliant.
You mean my English teacher wasn't lying to me in high school?
Today's Fact: In 1997, a man in Colorado was struck by lightning and survived, only to be struck by lightning again six years later and also survive.
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I don’t believe it 😮
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@@IansDominosI care
@@IansDominos I care
It's all about momentum. A #1 seed can fall behind and get dominated, or they could get hot and come back.
It's what makes the games fun to watch, because you don't know who's going to win.
100% this. it makes watching every game more fun
Which is why they scripted it that way@@fruitsnacks155
@@cristianjurado5796 you believe every player in the nba is in on this?
@@mactallica9293 Yes
@@cristianjurado5796 and not a single player in history has admitted to it, because...
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appreciate it
Recycled ♻️ meme
Post the real one shawty
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Had to scroll too far for this
the one time bro didn’t say the celtics
Irony
2:56 this looks like a chess game review graph where you blundered checkmate in one move 🤣
Giveaway - Looks like this one slipped through your fingers
Was not expecting Jimmy to start talking about Mario Kart but its very welcome to stay
thought that was gonna segway into talking about the refs rubberbanding these games with ridic calls to keep them close lol
I kinda liked his rubber banding analogy
bro clicked upload as soon as the bucks game ended
Fax 📠
*Publish tho??... 🤔
@@charliebrown9489holy hell genius
I think it's a coaching problem. Coaches don't change their game plan depending on their lead, compounding on the volatility. If, for instance, a team makes a lot of 3s early on, building up a 20 point lead, the team keeps chucking 3s. That means the other team only needs your team to miss 6 3s and them to make 6 3s and it's a 2 point game. However, if instead the team that built up a 20 point lead focused on scoring high efficiency 2s after building up the lead, then that would put the pressure on the other team. At that point, the other team needs to make 20 more 3s than you make 2s to catch up, which is very unlikely. Sprinkle in the fact that if you start focusing on 2s, the other team is gonna be less focused on defending 3s against you, making your 3s easier, and the lead becomes a lot more insurmountable. If I was coaching and my team was up 20, I'd bench anyone taking a 3 unless they were wide open and had around 40% 3PT percentage.
Very simple yet awesome observation/analysis!
It really depends. There might be a reason why you're making 3's. Trying for 2's might not be easier depending on the match up.
Sound analysis! Shooting 3s excessively is a risk of its own and becoming over reliant on it after building up a lead ends up like Houston's infamous 27 missed 3 pointers record.
you're talking like an old head. the true field goal percentage of a 3-pointer is way above what you remember it to be
This tracks for the Lakers imo. The Lakers have a Darvin Ham problem before anything else
Jxmy I've been a subscriber for a minute and this post was by far one of your most interesting and well done. You had me at the graph and classical music interlude. My jaw dropped at the breakdown with the three graphs showing the impact of the 3 pointer on game outcome over the years. Masterful.
LeBron looks like he's hitting the Nae Nae so violently in the thumbnail 😂😂
That’s hell
🤣🤣 bro you caught me w this one
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Lol 😂😂😂
I wonder if coaches should be calling quicker timeouts to curtail these scoring outbursts. I remember that was quite common in the past anytime momentum severely shifted.
A stat regarding called timeouts over the years would be interesting.
Don’t tell Darvin Ham that
They should change the rules and give each team a couple extra timeouts per game to stop those runs and allow for more challenges. But the league is about money, they want to see 150 point games. Adam silver will probably add a 4 point line.
Chris finch did exactly this tonight and it was a crazy close game all night. Ice them before they can run away.
I've always been curious in this 3-point-shooting NBA if there is an additional advantage to shooting threes: the offensive rebounds. Given that the floor is more spaced and the bounce off the missed shot goes farther/higher, I've wondered if just looking at 3pt% doesn't convey the whole advantage if the offense gains an advantage on offensive rebounds, too.
Thanks for the great video.
The ONE time he didn’t choose the Celtics 😭😭
0:32 welp. So much for this year’s prediction 😅
As a guy who plays Mario Kart and knows about it a good amount, never thought I’d hear about Rubberbanding in the NBA. 😂
The NBA doesn’t have rubberbanding… it was an unnecessary comparison, I’m not sure why he said that.
Rubberbanding implies there is some mechanic or rule that helps the team that is behind catch up (better items, faster driving speed).
His video does demonstrate how shooting more 3s causes higher variance in game results and leads to crazy scoring runs, but that doesn’t = rubberbanding.
You’re just as likely to see a crazy blowout due to good 3pt shooting, but he didn’t include any info on that. If you google the NBAs blowout problem, it’s part of the same equation with the rise of 3pt shooting.
In summary: If there’s no objective ADVANTAGE to playing from behind, there’s no rubberbanding.
@@rickyrico900 There is no inherent mechanic to keep games close, but you have to consider this: what does a team down by 20 try to do? Catch up. Teams down will be chucking threes left and right to catch up. In a league almost entirely driven by the three-pointer (and winning games based on threes made), it's entirely plausible to say this is as close to rubberbanding as we'll get in the NBA.
@@dylan9013 i know what point he’s trying to make, that’s still not rubberbanding. The result may seem similar in certain games (crazy comebacks), but it’s due to a choice by teams to opt for high risk high reward playstyle in hopes to catch up. Not by any inherent mechanic designed to help them come back.
It’s like how in boxing you can choose to focus on pure power for a desperation KO in later rounds when you assume you’ll lose on technicals. Might work out, probably won’t, but either way that’s not rubberbanding.
Not trying to be a jerk, just nitpicking. This is a great video otherwise!
@@rickyrico900he made a comparison
@@dylan9013that’s just not true I seen comebacks where they only made like 1 3 but still closed the gap players are just better this is more like that super team argument where every starter is getting to a level where they can score 30+ just look what Derrick white did last night
10:48 Khris damn near gave me a heart attack with those 3's at the end of the regulation and OT.
Bro posted this on the same day that the clippers almost gave up a 31 point lead and he didn’t even know it😂
He's an 🫏
Unpredictable but not far fetched given the relevance lol
As a Japanese, I feel glad to see the Mario Cart in your video! Your videos are so easy to understand and listen to.
Entertaining, interesting, but also informative and well put together vid man. I don't follow the NBA much, but when I do, it's with you Jxmy
8:42 splitting the graph into 3 separate graphs to tell a better story is crazy 💀
Dude just throws up random numbers and graphs and people thinks he’s making some great point
@rafaellariosa4815 so according to you, every 20pts lead is safe in todays NBA? Dude is right whether you like it or not.
@@redhorsepapiinstead of just spewing conjecture why don’t you actually engage and talk about the numbers and graphs he uses and argue against them? Just saying they’re random numbers and graphs doesn’t make it true lol.
It is a great point tho @@redhorsepapi
@@redhorsepapibro that graph split literally explains the importance of the 3 point shot and destroying leads. Are you sipping on silly juice???
Ain’t no way bro related Mario Kart to the NBA 💀
Yeah that was a bit of a stretch
I mean it's something
@@PreacherJenkinsI mean it’s simply teaching a concept in a funny way. Comparing 3P variance and the wild swings in games to Mario Kart. I highly doubt 95% of people watching this knew what the rubber band effect meant before this. Obviously there’s no built in one in the NBA, (in before conspiracy theorists) but the 3 ball can be the great equalizer, no lead is safe, etc.
@@BOnYTB exactly 💯
What's wrong with that, most people have played Mario Kart so he knew people would understand it
Love these videos thanks for existing bro
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I believe it’s because teams are getting more and more skilled while also forgetting team play fundamentals at times.
Crazy how since this video was uploaded, an even more unpredictable win from the 76ers came after Tyrese Maxey scored 7 points in 17 seconds
If you love Math and NBA, this has to be your favorite channel... 😎😎
Jimmy video before bed? Perfect 👍🏽
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I’m about to fall asleep but Jimmy posted so now I set my alarm for 15 minutes and 41 seconds later than it was
That subtle shot to Lakers when explaining rubberbanding at Mario Kart being bad at the game and the character wears a Lakers hoodie lol
Jesus loves you :;;;
Denver just blew a 20 point lead to Minnesota, the NBA is truly unpredictable.
studying for finals rn...jxmy uploaded so gotta take a lil break
wolves vs suns finna be on in 5 minutes… WOLVES IN 4.
hot take: Nuggets vs wolves will be the greatest series of all time
wolves nuggets series finna be absolutely generational
@@tkSZN04 lets just pray the lakers win
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@@tkSZN04 you mean suns vs lakers?
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when jxmy uploads you know your day is about to instantly get better
And as always, thanks for watching.
Jimmy has been real quiet since the Nuggets got eliminated
nah but this playoffs is amazing, not just each game being unbelievable and a thriller, but the storybook matchups, Lakers vs Nuggets running it back, the Heat - Celtics and Mavs - Clippers rivalry returning... I do think the Nuggets will win it though, Jokic is just on another level from everyone else as we have observed these past few years
yknow I was not expecting a game mechanic from mario kart 64 being used as an analogy in this video about the NBA Playoffs but to be honest I'm pleased to see it lmao
Really interesting and informative; great vid!
I guess when you think about it Basketball has always been *"A game of runs"* but now that teams are taking AND making so many threes a "run" be really hittin' different😂
8:42 splitting the graph into 3 separate graphs to tell a better story is crazy
Good prediction on the Nuggets so far. Your prediction streak will continue.
The only predictable thing maybe is Celtics making the finals unless they have a historic choke.
Another banger from jimmy keep up the great work man🔥🔥
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bro it hasnt been 2minutes yet
u ain’t even have time to get 3 minutes into the video bruh
What that guy said, you didn't even watch the video. Obsessing over youtube likes isn't a good move.
Yall tripping in the comments……we know and love jimmy’s videos. We know what to expect before even watching the whole thing!! ❤
I am curious how many offers Jimmy has had to join sports entertainment companies. Content continues to be on point. Filled with facts, reason, and beautiful graphics.
I think one of the things that can explain that graph where shooting more threes wasn't a good predictor of wins. It is how the offense is structured. The 'spread' or 'five out' offense moves the defensive rebounders much further from the rim so the famous 'wall' of rebounding the 76ers had with Charles Barkley and Moses Malone playing together, or Mark Eaton and Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Lambier, and Hot Rod, etc. they were all closer to the rim so when they boxed out it created a 'pocket' around the rim that almost any miss was theirs for the taking. Now you see players getting as many if not more offensive rebounds as defensive.
The celtics were waiting you to predict another team to finally win 😂
3 pointers determining the outcome of games. Thank you Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Steve Kerr.
Yup! There's so many short possessions and long rebounds that teams and coaches can't dictate on defense anymore.
Nice choice of who’s gonna win it all
Just to illustrate it even further, even though the mavs lost the game, they still erased a 31 pt deficit and had a lead. Thats insane
Loved the video. And you're so right. When my dad took me to my first ball game I learned that when a team is up by 10 it's basically a done game. Now 15 years later look at the NBA.
Everything about sports universally gets more unpredictable and evolved as time marches. That’s the beauty of sports.
Wtf... nonsense.
Not true, many sports have become more predictable. You cannot predict the unpredictability brother
To add on to the unpredictable playoffs this year, the Pacers literally just took a 3-1 series lead vs the Bucks
I mean, when the best 2 players are hurt, the third best player is not in good condition, a starter is playing through injury and 2 of those loses were extremely close.
This I my opinion just looks horrible for the pacers who already had a favorable matchup against the bucks without taking into account the injured players
I mean... Giannis still hasnt played in that series, Dame is injured now, although Khris is playing, he's still not in the best shape of his life. Not that unpredictable for the Pacers eliminate them considering all those factors.
This a bad example. Giannis was set to not play this series and Dame getting injured made the pacers winning less unpredictable
i predicted the pacers would win even if the bucks had dame and giannis, if they still had mike budenholzer or whoever, i would pick the bucks to win, the bucks have sucked with doc
Why would you comment about the NBA if you don’t watch it
Keep up the good work
Came here from watching Denver got their 20-points-lead erased in a game-7 home court. Man this shit was diabolical 😂😂😂
12:05 Think that's partly because of the officiating changes reverting back to a more fair officiating paradigm for defenders. Could probably parse that out from point differentials durring the regular season.
Honestly, this channel is great. You deserve a big congrats man
I love how a basketball analysts legend knows what rubberbanding is 🤣😭💀
Why wouldn’t he? He’s gen Z and majority of people have played video games.
@@judith678 yeah but I feel like rubberbanding is something more advanced dedicated players know about
But you definitely have a point
He doesnt know what it is because the NBA doesn’t have it lol. There’s no advantage to playing from behind in the NBA it’s a silly comparison.
Thanks for not picking the Celtics this year, now they can finally win smh geez
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every game has me like 🤯
only 1 like, yall fell off
Jxmy keep doing your thang! After all these years, still quality content. Thank you!
When you put the 3 graphs in context, I think its also worth adding how many 3s were made by the teams - because I'm sure the number of 3s back in the 90s were far lesser than ones made in the following decades :) That puts the stat in better context as to why the win rate is far higher - if teams in 90s made just 5-6 3s a game, and made more 3s than their opponents in those aspects, of course the win rate isn't going to be as high if most of the points in the games were typically 2s.
Who's here after the 2024 finals? 🤣🤣
Suns just got swept.
Pretty funny that the Celtics are gonna win it all the one year you don’t pick the Celtics lmao. I had them winning the past two years as well so don’t feel bad, but stick to your guns next time!!
I've said this for a few years now. You can miss the first 40min of an NBA game and not miss much.
you already know the meal finna hit when you get to watch a jxmy while eating
suns got swept 💀
This makes me wondering if we will ever see a 16-0 playoff run ever again
There never was a 16-0 run in the first place
Who’s here after Murray just sent the Lakers home…
Fake champions. Hasn’t been a legit championship since the early 90’s.
2:56 that last little line speaks volumes
I remember back in 05 coming back from a 10 points deficit on the 4th quarter was nearly impossible. The game has change a LOT.
If the Celtics win this year😂
It would be funny if the celtics win when jimmy stop beting on them
This video is the catalyst for Lakers in 7 (💀)
lakers in 7 , u know ball
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Nuggets in 5 tf.
Jxmy is the only youtuber I make sure to watch every single upload for!!! always the highest quality of content
I love this year's playoffs as it has some of the best teams going head to head which I now know is the best thing ever happen in years
First 🔥💪🏾
1 view in 18 seconds jimmy really fell off😢
I liked me own comment
Me didn’t
Let's wrestle let's wrestle.
I still remember watching older nba games when the league pass was free during the first covid lockdown and noticing how many, nowadays, open threes were being passed on.
I love that this video ended on Nurse and the 76ers, showcasing that their season is coming to an end on Tuesday.
It's be because of how weak defense has become, the only way a team can guarantee a lead is to just keep scoring and hope you canoutscore your opponent becore they rally
Lakers losing to the nuggets was very predictable. And the Celtics almost always give up a game when an opponents star player misses a game, it’s like they don’t even try. They lost to la without lebum and ad
Jimmy's videos are amazing. Whenever he shares a graph, be ready to have your jaw drop.
As a Lakers fan I was kind of hoping Jxmy was going to predict the Celtics again
Loved the stats heavy video. Would love to learn more about applied data analysis
JxmyHighroller you just earn a FAN my brother!!!! This video was much needed after seeing the first RD!!!
idk when you're retiring from yt my guy, but MAAAANN. these videos are grated. you deliver every time. i think we all need to give you your flowers king!!
I want to see an analysis of playoff series over time. It used to be that the #1 seed would always sweep the #8 seed, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Does getting home court advantage throughout the playoffs matter? It mattered in 2008 and 2010. Having competitive playoff series is so much better for the NBA, and who doesn't love seeing a top seed get upset? So what's the history of of playoff sweeps and competitive series?
@13:00 🤔 LOL "WHAT' That is just some crazy stat's ???😁
These are legit the best videos on all of RUclips.