What do you guys think Sullinger will average this season?
During the preseason, Sully averaged roughly 14.8 pts, 10.8 rebs, 3.9 asts, 1.3 stl, in 26 mins. per game.
Considering he'll probably play roughly 32 minutes per game, I think he'll average right around 18 pts, 10 rebs, and 3 assists a game. I think the addition of Rondo in the lineup will give him a couple more easy looks at the rim per game and increase his preseason scoring output.
What do you guys think?
OK, this will sound obnoxious, but I am really not doing it on purpose.
Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation and organization of data.
Since we have no data here best thing we could is a prediction. But since no one is going to get in the trouble to actually spend a couple of hours working on previous years' data to make a serious projection, we are talking about pure speculation.
Nothing wrong with that, but let's keep our cool, because there is only a thin line separating speculation from BS.
Boy, someone needs to get off of their high horse. You're making a semantic argument when there is obviously two differing uses of the words. In fact, the word itself wasn't even in my post, though it was in the title, but it's obvious that I was meaning the general sense of the term instead of the academic sense.
However, your argument is off in other areas, as well. You claim there is no data, but I provided the pre-season averages and extrapolated from there. It wasn't a pure extrapolation, because the numbers don't match between the amount of minutes played. So, there was some reasoning behind the prediction.
Lastly, you claim that it was "pure speculation." However, pure speculation is defined as conjecture without evidence. I provided what amounts to probably the most relevant evidence available, preseason averages with last year's averages also in mind, so your argument all-in-all is pretentious and misguided. This is a freaking blog for casual Celtics fans; get off of your high horse and stop acting so pedantic.