Tag: NBA stats

  • 5 Statistical Standouts of the Developing NBA Season

    5 Statistical Standouts of the Developing NBA Season

    It might be too early in the 2019-2020 NBA Season to draw some long-term conclusions about teams and players, but statistics posted by Derrick Rose, Damian Lillard, Andre Drummond, Fred VanVleet and Bam Adebayo are worth a deeper look. #1: Fred VanVleet, Toronto Raptors Before the season began, head coach Nick Nurse told both VanVleet […]

  • Is Karl-Anthony Towns Actually a Good Defender Now?

    Is Karl-Anthony Towns Actually a Good Defender Now?

    There hasn’t been anyone doubting Karl-Anthony Towns’ offensive skills since the Minnesota Timberwolves star began his NBA career. But his defensive skills? That’s a different story. The 1st overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft has averaged 22.3 points on 53.7% in his first four seasons in the league. He has kicked off his 5th […]

  • On Jeremy Lin, Superb Offense Off the Bench & the Inevitable Trade

    On Jeremy Lin, Superb Offense Off the Bench & the Inevitable Trade

    17 games into his 2018-2019 campaign with the Atlanta Hawks, Jeremy Lin has found himself a neat little rhythm – rather short, impressively productive stints off the bench, unfortunately coinciding with his team’s losing streaks, but good enough to probably put Lin on the radar of a number of teams with bigger aspirations and a need for help in the backcourt.

  • Visual Graphic of Every Final Score in NBA History

    Visual Graphic of Every Final Score in NBA History

    Redditor Neilson241 posted a very interesting visual graphic depicting every final score in the history of the NBA, starting in 1946 and ending with the 2016-2017 regular season. Three games that stand a bit outside the rest of the timeline are the lowest scoring game in NBA history, the highest scoring game and the one with […]

  • Golden State Warriors: How’s the New Shot Distribution Working

    Golden State Warriors: How’s the New Shot Distribution Working

    One of the main concerns regarding Kevin Durant joining the Golden State Warriors was the new distribution of shots between star players. Three games into the new season isn’t nearly enough time to establish solid conclusions, but we wanted to have a look in any case.

  • A Very Early Look at Russell Westbrook’s Stats Without Kevin Durant

    A Very Early Look at Russell Westbrook’s Stats Without Kevin Durant

    So how are things for the Oklahoma City Thunder? Pretty good. They started the season 3-0, Russell Westbrook is posting monster numbers as expected, and no one is thinking about Kevin Durant, at least not in a good way.

  • NBA Players Who Have Averaged 20 Points & 10 Assists In a Season

    NBA Players Who Have Averaged 20 Points & 10 Assists In a Season

    Looking back at statistical achievements in NBA history always sheds some light on interesting things. In this occasion, we focus on players with seasons in which they’ve averaged 20 points and 10 assists per game. Turns out only 11 have been able to do it. Out of the soccer team of talented point guards, only five have been able to do it more than once: Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, Kevin Johnson, Chris Paul and Isaiah Thomas.

  • Jeremy Lin, Shooting Percentage & Brooklyn Nets Role Effect

    Jeremy Lin, Shooting Percentage & Brooklyn Nets Role Effect

    The summer makes every little piece of information receive rare grandeur, so Jeremy Lin working on his shooting is obviously a big deal to Brooklyn Nets fans, and Lin fans as well. The Olympics might be ending, but the NBA season is still two months away.

  • NBA Playoff Picture: Bulls, Pacers, Pistons, Wizards, Blazers, Jazz, Mavericks & Rockets After Four Spots

    NBA Playoff Picture: Bulls, Pacers, Pistons, Wizards, Blazers, Jazz, Mavericks & Rockets After Four Spots

    With each team having between 13 and 11 games remaining this season, it seems the last two playoff slots in each conference will be decided upon between four teams. Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons and Washington Wizards in the East; Portland Trail Blazers, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz in the West.

  • Worst NBA Shooting Seasons in the Last Decade

    Worst NBA Shooting Seasons in the Last Decade

    By every possible parameter, Kobe Bryant is having one of the worst shooting seasons in NBA history. Over the last decade, be it by field goal percentage, effective field goal percentage or true shooting percentage, it looks bad for him in 2015-2016 and also last season through less than half of it before he was shut down. But what’s the right way of measuring a shooter, or in this case, a bad one?