Interesting stats
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:11 pm
I really like the new stats.nba.com page and I've been drooling over it and looking at various stats lately. Here are some interesting (but not extensive) tidbits I've found, my opinions are in italics.
Shooting:
Meeks and Blake have been shooting the lights out on catch and shoot.
Blake 47.7% C&S with 53.8% on C&S 3s
Meeks 45.9% C&S with 48.5% on C&S 3s
For comparison: Korver - 56% C&S/55.3% C&S 3s; Klay 52% C&S/51.2% C&S 3s
Both players are pretty bad at pull-up shooting 21.4% (Blake) and 37.5% (Meeks). Interestingly enough, Wes Johnson shoots 34.5% FG but is shooting 40% on 3s and 43.3% on C&S 3s.
- All 3 players need to stop dribbling before they shoot. Wes just needs to stand in a corner until he learns how to dribble IMO. Pull-ups are an area where we desperately need Kobe back. A reason to be positive about our current starting lineup is that we essentially have 3 of our best 3pt shooters on the floor at the same time.
People (like myself) complain about Pau's terrible shooting. However he's shooting 61% FG on close shots -- scores on any touch within 12 feet of the basket not including drives (for comparison Love - 53.8%; Lebron - 77.8%; Dwight - 66.7%). What makes his FG% so terrible is he's shooting 37% on catch and shoot opportunities and he's taking more C&S shots than close shots (3.7 to 3.5, not a huge difference).
- I think despite how he looks, Pau is still statistically effective (because he sure doesn't look effective) on close touches and he needs to get more of them. I don't know if he's not getting the ball down in the low post more because he doesn't want to bang to get position or if D'Antoni's offense is forcing him to be outside but I think it's probably a combination of both. Something is missing though, I don't know where the rest of his shots are going because the percentages don't really add up. It would also be interesting to see his post up shooting percentage (I'm sure that number exists, probably on Synergy) compared to NBA.com's close FG%.
Rebounding:
Our team pretty damn good at rebounding and is 3rd in the league at rebounds per game. Jordan Hill has a ridiculous 55% "contested rebound percentage" -- that is if there is someone within 3.5 Ft contesting the rebound (for comparison Dwight - 31.3%; Love - 35.2%; Pau -31.1%, Kanter - 63.2%
). Pau also hasn't been a slouch at rebounding, succeeding on 68.8% of his rebound opportunities (Hill gets 63.2% of his). Wes Johnson has been a slightly better rebounder than Chris Kaman better at both contested rebound percentage (43.2% to 40%) as well as getting more out of rebound opportunities (56.4% to 55.6%).
- With our new starting lineup of Wes, Jordan, and Pau, we're going to be killing it on the boards. Quite surprising to me since we lost one of the best rebounders in the league in Dwight but we really haven't seen a dip in production.
Defense:
Not surprisingly, Pau has the worse defensive rating on the team (not counting Elias Harris) at 108.1. What's interesting however is that Shawne Williams and Chris Kaman have the lowest DefRtg on the team (97.7 and 98.8 respectively, everyone else on the team is >100). Kaman also happens to be the best rim protector on the team -- opponents are shooting 39.1% FG at the rim (for comparison Hibbert - 33.8%; Davis - 33.3%; Duncan - 31.9%; Dwight - 50%
). Wes Johnson, despite having the most blocks on our team, is allowing 60% opp FG at rim.
- I think this just shows how Wes cannot be playing out of position as the 4 on this team. I guess it also highlights how pathetic our defense happens to be. I thought our athletic wing players and guards would be better but they haven't really shown their effectiveness yet.
Team stats:
Despite the 3 "schedule losses" with the B2B games, the team has been remarkably consistent in terms of overall stats on these games. The shooting obviously is down (39.2% FG and 37.9% 3FG on 0 days rest; 42.5% FG and 40.2% 3FG on 1 day rest) but the rest of the team stats are pretty much the same. The difference between Home and Away games is also not so different (43.5% FG and 40.9% 3FG at home; 40.2% FG and 40.3% 3FG on the road).
- Honestly we're just a bad offensive team and we completely depend on our rebounding advantage and shooting 3s to win games (maybe I should've put this bullet point first so it doesn't sound so doomsday).
Shooting:
Meeks and Blake have been shooting the lights out on catch and shoot.
Blake 47.7% C&S with 53.8% on C&S 3s
Meeks 45.9% C&S with 48.5% on C&S 3s
For comparison: Korver - 56% C&S/55.3% C&S 3s; Klay 52% C&S/51.2% C&S 3s
Both players are pretty bad at pull-up shooting 21.4% (Blake) and 37.5% (Meeks). Interestingly enough, Wes Johnson shoots 34.5% FG but is shooting 40% on 3s and 43.3% on C&S 3s.
- All 3 players need to stop dribbling before they shoot. Wes just needs to stand in a corner until he learns how to dribble IMO. Pull-ups are an area where we desperately need Kobe back. A reason to be positive about our current starting lineup is that we essentially have 3 of our best 3pt shooters on the floor at the same time.
People (like myself) complain about Pau's terrible shooting. However he's shooting 61% FG on close shots -- scores on any touch within 12 feet of the basket not including drives (for comparison Love - 53.8%; Lebron - 77.8%; Dwight - 66.7%). What makes his FG% so terrible is he's shooting 37% on catch and shoot opportunities and he's taking more C&S shots than close shots (3.7 to 3.5, not a huge difference).
- I think despite how he looks, Pau is still statistically effective (because he sure doesn't look effective) on close touches and he needs to get more of them. I don't know if he's not getting the ball down in the low post more because he doesn't want to bang to get position or if D'Antoni's offense is forcing him to be outside but I think it's probably a combination of both. Something is missing though, I don't know where the rest of his shots are going because the percentages don't really add up. It would also be interesting to see his post up shooting percentage (I'm sure that number exists, probably on Synergy) compared to NBA.com's close FG%.
Rebounding:
Our team pretty damn good at rebounding and is 3rd in the league at rebounds per game. Jordan Hill has a ridiculous 55% "contested rebound percentage" -- that is if there is someone within 3.5 Ft contesting the rebound (for comparison Dwight - 31.3%; Love - 35.2%; Pau -31.1%, Kanter - 63.2%

- With our new starting lineup of Wes, Jordan, and Pau, we're going to be killing it on the boards. Quite surprising to me since we lost one of the best rebounders in the league in Dwight but we really haven't seen a dip in production.
Defense:
Not surprisingly, Pau has the worse defensive rating on the team (not counting Elias Harris) at 108.1. What's interesting however is that Shawne Williams and Chris Kaman have the lowest DefRtg on the team (97.7 and 98.8 respectively, everyone else on the team is >100). Kaman also happens to be the best rim protector on the team -- opponents are shooting 39.1% FG at the rim (for comparison Hibbert - 33.8%; Davis - 33.3%; Duncan - 31.9%; Dwight - 50%

- I think this just shows how Wes cannot be playing out of position as the 4 on this team. I guess it also highlights how pathetic our defense happens to be. I thought our athletic wing players and guards would be better but they haven't really shown their effectiveness yet.
Team stats:
Despite the 3 "schedule losses" with the B2B games, the team has been remarkably consistent in terms of overall stats on these games. The shooting obviously is down (39.2% FG and 37.9% 3FG on 0 days rest; 42.5% FG and 40.2% 3FG on 1 day rest) but the rest of the team stats are pretty much the same. The difference between Home and Away games is also not so different (43.5% FG and 40.9% 3FG at home; 40.2% FG and 40.3% 3FG on the road).
- Honestly we're just a bad offensive team and we completely depend on our rebounding advantage and shooting 3s to win games (maybe I should've put this bullet point first so it doesn't sound so doomsday).