NBA Digest (27th December 2013)

Korver Kounter: 96 Altanta Hawks: 118 - Utah Jazz: 85 (20.12.2013)

Thunder was the only team who didn't lose at home any games. But last night Raptors beat Thunder in Oklahoma. It was interesting that they got their first home lose against a very average team. (22.12.2013)

Korver Kounter: 97 Miami Heat: 121 Altanta Hawks: 119. It was a great game. Heat barely beat Hawks after OT with their stars LeBron James and my man Ray Allen. It looked like a playoff game. Korver continued from where hr left. 5/8 3-points is quite good stats. (23.12.2013)

No games were played last night in NBA because Christmas. This happens very rarely in NBA. Well! Of sourse Santa visited NBA. (24.12.2013)

Korver Kounter: 98. Cleveland Cavaliers: 125 Atlanta Hawks: 127 (26.12.2013)

Hawks beat Cavaliers in Cleveland 127-125 after two overtimes.
(26.12.2013)

NBA Digest (20th December 2013)

We forgot to mention about Kyle Korver. Hawks beat Clippers at home 107-97. Korver made 6 3-point shots and increased his streak to 89. He tied the NBA record of consecutive 3-point made. (04.12.2013)

After two days Hawks beat Cavaliers 108-89. Korver made -this time only- 2 3-point shots and broke the NBA record with 90 consecutive games. (06.12.2013)

A new concept arose in NBA: Korver Kounter (Not counter.) Hawks lost against Knicks 111-106. But Korver increased streak to 93. He tries to bring the record to an "unbreakable" state. (14.12.2013)

Blazers beat 76ers 139-105 and made 21 3-point shots. (NBA record is 23.) So they broke their club record. 139 points is the most points made in a game this season. (14.12.2013)

Blazers beat Pistons with Damian Lillard's last split-second's shot in overtime 111-109. So they increased their wins to 21. This is 3rd time that Blazers got at least 21 wins in 25 games starting the season. They got 22 wins and 3 losses in season 1990-91 and 21 wins and 4 losses in 1977-78 season. Team and Lillard play at high performance nowadays. (15.12.2013)

Nets beat 76ers 130-94 and made 21 3-points in the game (21/35). So they broke club's record. (16.12.2013)

Korver Kounter: 94. Atlanta Hawks: 114 - Los Angeles Lakers: 100. (16.12.2013)

Korver Kounter: 95. Atlanta Hawks: 124 - Sacramento Kings: 107 Korver made 8/10 3-point shots. You crazy man??!!! (18.12.2013)

Strength Difference Between NBA Eastern & Western Conferences

It is easy to see the strength difference between Eastern and Western Conferences if you look at the ranking below:

It can be seen from the table that only two teams in Eastern Conference could pass 50% percentage so far. The 13th team in the Western Conference has the same percentage with the 3rd team in the Eastern Conference. This shows that the teams Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder are much more better and fitter than Indiana Pacers. That's because the teams in the same conference play more games with each other than with the teams in the other conference. i.e. a team in Eastern Conference plays only two games with a team in Western Conference. Nevertheless it plays three or four games with the teams in its conference. Namely teams in Western Conference have to play against thougher teams throughout the normal season.

This also means that Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat will be less tired compared to the other championship candidates untill the playoffs.

Some teams in the above table have worse statistics but have higher ranking as you can see. Let's tell the reason of that in another blog article.