Miscellaneous Thunder observations

jambalaya · Post #1 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:32 am

Thunder bench performance as measured by hoopsstats.com has declined every season since 2013-14.

Thunder assists per game were 25th best in league as of a few days ago. GSW are 5th highest in league history. Rockets, second best this season.

jambalaya · Post #2 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:37 am

RPM estimates put the combined impact of newly given mega-contracts Oladipo and Adams at right at half of last season or same as either ONE.

jambalaya · Post #3 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:40 am

If you made a list of best 5 Presti decisions, 4 or 5 would be at least 7 years ago (Russ, KD, Harden, Serge and probably Brooks?).

jambalaya · Post #4 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:42 am

To win the first round, the Thunder probably need to play an extremely short rotation and get an early knockout before tiring.

jambalaya · Post #5 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:46 am

If Thunder plan and expect to re-sign Roberson, you could argue for them to draft a PG or PF before a wing but if they don't plan or expect to keep Robes, they either need to draft a SF or trade for one. And probably pick up another in free agency.

jambalaya · Post #6 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:56 am

By PER and BPM, Sabonis has had the least productive season of any Thunder player taken in first round and given more than 300 minutes. By Winshares per 48 Jeff Green was a bit worse.

jambalaya · Post #7 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:02 am

Abrines and McDermott are good (not great) 3 pt shooters and the team surly needs that skill. But they are about as one dimensional as you get.

jambalaya · Post #8 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:04 am

Cole might do something good in playoffs but I'd say there were many players who probably had a better chance to help more / hurt less.

jambalaya · Post #9 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:11 am

Looking at Oladipo's stats I see at least 8 career lows in important categories. His assists per game are down 40% from his previous average. Seems unlikely to change unless he plays with bench more and Russ less.

jambalaya · Post #10 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:13 am

The only way Taj stays is if he continues to start and gets paid like a starter even while his minutes are only low 20s or less.

Pillendreher · Post #11 » by **Pillendreher** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:23 am

Damn Crow

jambalaya · Post #12 » by **jambalaya** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:52 pm

On the Morey Index (% of shots from good zones) Thunder improved for a bit this season but are back where they started. Slightly below average.

Post #13 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:54 pm

jambalaya wrote:On the Morey Index (% of shots from good zones) Thunder improved for a bit this season but are back where they started. Slightly below average.

You got sauce on that, Crow? I thought I saw something a couple of weeks back that had them a little higher than I expected. Probably mistaken.

jambalaya · Post #14 » by **jambalaya** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:02 pm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8LtY6XUAAANxEk.jpg

It was different a few weeks ago. But changed.

Post #15 » by **bondom34** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:05 pm

http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM/position/2

Post #16 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:15 pm

jambalaya wrote:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8LtY6XUAAANxEk.jpg

It was different a few weeks ago. But changed.

That's TS%, not Morey.

jambalaya · Post #17 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:12 am

AR, I guess I pulled wrong thing. Maybe I can find right one later.

Bondom, you gave your link as a shout out for Oladipo? His RPM has improved, mist of the way back to last season's but not quite.

By BPM Thunder has,worst bench in league.

Read on Twitter

jambalaya · Post #18 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:17 am

AR here is the right graph

Read on Twitter

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showing what I said.
The other one looked the same. I had seen both and retrieved wrong one.

jambalaya · Post #19 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:55 am

Looking at a new dataset I found, Westbrook ranks in bottom 10 in league of guys in rotation for contesting 2 and 3 pt shots. Contests only about 1/3rd of average for 2 pointers, less than half on 3s.

jambalaya · Post #20 » by **jambalaya** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:59 am

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hkXa_gfBEKE_hbpfpRlptdxdoA_40v0Nh2MZf3MEOWc/edit?usp=sharing