Ibaka

[BIG EDDIE]

Ibaka is averaging 4.9 blocks so far in February and has already 3 games with at least 10 blocks only in February (11 games so far).

Does any of you know where to check for the NBA record held for most 10+ block games in a month?

Also, he is averaging 8.9 rebounds in Feb, which is about what I expect him to average in a season for the future. Btw, he does all that in 27 minutes (30 minutes in Feb). And he is leading the league with 3.3 blocks. Once he plays 32-34 minutes on a regular basis, he could break the 4 blocks per night.

[slick_watts]

I did some research for you:

February 89-90: David Robinson (3)
February 11-12: Serge Ibaka (3)

Those are the only two instances since 1985 that a player has recorded 10+ blocks three or more times in a month.

[MASH Transit]

Ibaka needs to be playing more minutes. In fact, he and Collison need to be playing more minutes together.

[BIG EDDIE]

Thanks slick for the research. Where do you actually look up all these stats?

[sonictecture]

Are these blocks statistical oddities or something that will really benefit overall team defense?

Will teams or players start changing their willingness to go to the hoop and settle for jumpers due to the threat of Ibaka?

[MASH Transit]

Are these blocks statistical oddities or something that will really benefit overall team defense?

Will teams or players start changing their willingness to go to the hoop and settle for jumpers due to the threat of Ibaka?

This is something we've already seen. He alters pretty much every shot, even when he doesn't get his hands on it. Players are hesitant to go at him.

[AI]

Met the guy in Vegas at the mall across from the Wynn. The dude's an absolute beast and I am not surprised that he is getting numbers like this. Cool dude and I'm glad he's playing well.

[slick_watts]

Are these blocks statistical oddities or something that will really benefit overall team defense?

Will teams or players start changing their willingness to go to the hoop and settle for jumpers due to the threat of Ibaka?

I think it's unquestionable that teams already do this, but a side effect of Ibaka going after so many shots is that our defensive rebounding with him in the game suffers, especially in the small lineups when he's at center. Kendrick Perkins and Nick Collison regression on the boards exacerbates this issue.

[dopeismarcus]

Serge Protector is putting in work.

[cumaethor]

Ibaka is now franchise best shot blocker in history with 962 blocks. He passed Shawn Kemp who had 959.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/OKC/players.html#players::17

Congratulations

[wizkid27]

Not sure if that or how far back you went to find this thread is more impressive!

[bondom34]

Not sure if that or how far back you went to find this thread is more impressive!

It's fun to read some old threads on here sometimes (the draft board has some funny ones in hindsight!). Lots thought Ibaka's extension was too expensive at the time, but it looks great now.

[wizkid27]

Not sure if that or how far back you went to find this thread is more impressive!

It's fun to read some old threads on here sometimes (the draft board has some funny ones in hindsight!). Lots thought Ibaka's extension was too expensive at the time, but it looks great now.

I agree, the draft board old posts have to be pretty funny. Another interesting (and humbling) one is to go back and read your own posts from a year ago (or in my case, my oldest posts are from like 10 years ago!

[Podirk]

One thing that I have no stats to back up is Ibaka blocking shots out of bounds. Ibaka was going to block a lot of shots but >50% were going into the stands. It has looked to be a focus of the teams to better that and send blocks to a better location for his team to get. Adams showed a great block late in Utah where he had a help block and could have sent it into the 10th row..instead he just got a hand on the ball enough to block it and picked it up to move the ball in transition(he got fouled instead). It's little improvements like that that can really effect games.

[bondom34]

One thing that I have no stats to back up is Ibaka blocking shots out of bounds. Ibaka was going to block a lot of shots but >50% were going into the stands. It has looked to be a focus of the teams to better that and send blocks to a better location for his team to get. Adams showed a great block late in Utah where he had a help block and could have sent it into the 10th row..instead he just got a hand on the ball enough to block it and picked it up to move the ball in transition(he got fouled instead). It's little improvements like that that can really effect games.

http://www.nbawowy.com/#/defense

NBA Wowy keeps track, and 68.1 percent of his blocks are rebounded by OKC, which is pretty good.

[Podirk]

One thing that I have no stats to back up is Ibaka blocking shots out of bounds. Ibaka was going to block a lot of shots but >50% were going into the stands. It has looked to be a focus of the teams to better that and send blocks to a better location for his team to get. Adams showed a great block late in Utah where he had a help block and could have sent it into the 10th row..instead he just got a hand on the ball enough to block it and picked it up to move the ball in transition(he got fouled instead). It's little improvements like that that can really effect games.

http://www.nbawowy.com/#/defense

NBA Wowy keeps track, and 68.1 percent of his blocks are rebounded by OKC, which is pretty good.

Thanks for the link! Trying to load it at work with no luck currently I'll check it out later, does it provide the ability to track previous years?

[bondom34]

One thing that I have no stats to back up is Ibaka blocking shots out of bounds. Ibaka was going to block a lot of shots but >50% were going into the stands. It has looked to be a focus of the teams to better that and send blocks to a better location for his team to get. Adams showed a great block late in Utah where he had a help block and could have sent it into the 10th row..instead he just got a hand on the ball enough to block it and picked it up to move the ball in transition(he got fouled instead). It's little improvements like that that can really effect games.

http://www.nbawowy.com/#/defense

NBA Wowy keeps track, and 68.1 percent of his blocks are rebounded by OKC, which is pretty good.

Thanks for the link! Trying to load it at work with no luck currently I'll check it out later, does it provide the ability to track previous years?

It looks like it only goes back to last year unfortunately, b/c its a relatively new site. Fun to play around w/ different on/off combos as well. No prob!

[Podirk]

Restarted my machine and was able to load it nicely. That's a pretty nice site to dig into stats! Would be interesting to see the %blocked that the Thunder obtained poss for 10/11 and 11/12. I would dare to say it would sink under (at least near to) 50%.