offensive analysis done a different way

[The Rebel]

http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2012/05 ... -geometry/

Analyzes PPP for type of play, and the amount of possessions used running those plays as compared to others.

Here is a link to the Nuggets analysis for last year.
http://www.hickory-high.com/?attachment_id=4406

[The Rebel]

More analysis on the Nuggets offense.

• Something really interesting happened in Denver last season. One report tracked every time a player drove the ball from an area 20 feet or more from the basket into an area 10 feet or fewer from the hoop — an event generally considered a healthy thing for an offense. The data excluded fast-break drives, which is important to note, since Denver ended up leading the league in qualifying drives by a wide margin. The Nuggets averaged 24.5 drives per game, miles above the league average of 14.6 and pretty significantly above the No. 2 mark (Cleveland, 18.5). Ty Lawson averaged 9.1 drives per game on his own, the highest mark in the league, and more than the Lakers averaged as a team (7.2, a league-low).

But Denver’s numbers here are still jarring. Andre Miller and Lawson ranked among the half-dozen “best” point guards in the league by this standard, with 67 percent of Miller’s potential assists and 56 percent of Lawson’s leading either to threes or shots at the rim. Only Jeremy Lin (68 percent) had a higher percentage of potential assists fall in those areas, a fact I suspect Houston’s geeky brain trust is already aware of.

On the flip side, relatively few of Miller’s and Lawson’s potential dimes led to two-point jumpers longer than 15 feet; they had two of the four lowest marks in the league among surveyed point guards.

Lawson is super speedy and Miller is a basketball professor, but there is something broader going on here — something good, considering Denver had the league’s third-most efficient offense last season. The Nuggets attempted the fewest long two-point jumpers per game in the league, a remarkable thing, considering their breakneck pace of play. Their ability to earn heaps of free throws obviously helped, since shooting fouls wipes away shot attempts on the stat sheet, but you don’t earn those free throws by simply chucking long twos.

http://nba-point-forward.si.com/2012/08 ... echnology/


I think we all know the Nuggets run a drive and kick offense, but I find it interesting that the Nuggets do it 6 more times per game than any other team in the league, and it leads either to shots at the rim or 3s, no long range 2s.

[Grape God]

Thanks for the link. Its wonderful to have numbers for these things.