iggymcfrack wrote:Steph Curry gets as many heaves up as anyone ever and he’s taken 77 over 698 games. Once every 3 games for
Jordan is an absolutely ridiculous estimate. FWIW Curry made 5%. Re-run these numbers with something like 1 shot every 15 games for Jordan at 5% and you’ll probably get a much better number. I’d imagine it’s a very small effect.
1. Those heave stats, assuming they are even accurate, are misleading if you don't know what they represent. It took me two seconds to find a video on YouTube of Jordan making a shot from just inside half-court in the 1997 season (check his shoes). BBRef gives him 0 heave attempts that season, so, at best, it's clear that "heaves" is a very specific category of shot on the site. This is also borne out in Curry's 5% career total, considering it's well known that he's deadly taking all kinds of "bad" or long distance shots.
2. I wasn't talking about heaves. I was talking about low quality attempts. If I used the term "desperation" (I don't remember), what I meant was that those shots were taken in situations well outside the normal flow of the offense (end of clock, end of quarter, half, or the game, and two-for-one's), situations in which the normal odds of making the shot were extremely low.
Here's the vid: the shot is at 1:55.
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