nba stats 2014-15

anthony davis, 26-17-2, 3 steals, 9 blocks, 0 turnovers, 33 minutes.

anthony davis, 31-15, 2 steals, 3 blocks.

otto porter, who never scored in double figures last season, went 7-11 for 21 pts

klay thompson 41 points on 18 shots

demarcus cousins, 34 points (15-of-23), 17 rebounds, five assists, three blocks in a win over the clippers.

@ESPNStatsInfo: Rajon Rondo is 1st player since Magic Johnson in 1983 w/ at least 35 assists & 25 rebounds in his team's 1st 3 games of a season.

cp3 tripdub btw

yeah was just gonna post that

lesser stat: DJ had 8 points, all on highlight-reel dunks

weird to think thats his first trip dub as a Clipper

not that weird, he only averages like 4-5 boards per game

its a lot of guys averaging 4-b boards that have had more these past few years and most of those guys don't average 10 assists per game.

Plus it ain't as if the Clippers are particularly good at rebounding as a team

@ESPNStatsInfo: James Harden's efficiency: His 18 field goals in last 3 games are the fewest in NBA history for a player scoring 85+ points in a 3-game span

he looks great so far

James harden has already attempted 64 free throws this year in 5 games

lebron's barely even jogging to get back on defense

oops meant that for the main thread

rondo with 13-10-15 against the raptors

can't believe they blew the lead on that game tho

I mean I can but don't want to.

boogie 30 & 11 in 22 minutes

ha and he fouled out too ; )

mvp

warriors currently playing at the fastest pace and with the best defensive efficiency

Not surprised about the first one, their speed looks almost unreal

its just a very crazy combo, cant last

lowry 13-10-11

boogie 25-18 is absolutely killing it so far

steph 34-10-5-4

13-19 fg, 6-9 3pt too.

rockets 10-42 from 3.

some really incredible moves and shot making too

cp3 has 63 assists and 5 turnovers

crazy

davis 27-11-4stl-6blk

beast

def Leaping

all the way to the top

And the game winning shot

@thecity2: Lakers are allowing 5 points (per 100) more than the Mavericks (#1 offense) are scoring every night.

bron 32-12-10-1-1, 9-17 fg

big game from bron bron

with a bad back too

How many explosions did he have

prob like .75

That's not v explosive

he wasnt very explosive

iblocka third youngest ever to 1000 iblocks

Ibaka had four swats in the 106-89 loss, bringing him to 1,001 for his career at the age of 25 years, 41 days. Only Josh Smith and Dwight Howard reached 1,000 blocks at a younger age, with Smith setting the league record at 24 years and 59 days, per NBA.com.

that list makes no sense to me but hey bleacher report said it so who am i

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 17s18 seconds ago
Spurs’ Duncan-Ginóbili-Parker trio reached 500 wins Monday. They’re second behind Celtics’ Bird-McHale-Parish (540)

I don't think the league started keeping track of blocks until the 70s or 80s or something, wilt probably had 10000 blocks his first season

the other problem the suns' had with that pick is that they're obv trying to win now and it's hard to do that while also bringing along a top but raw prospect

this is why the cavs traded wiggins and it's why it makes no sense for the knicks to go out and sign greg monroe and rajon rondo or whatever

but they shuold've cashed that pick in for someone better than brandon knight because the top 5 prospects in this draft are very good

http://nbatanking.com/

pretty solid lottery simulator xps

http://www.tankathon.com/

this one might be better, tracks how many slots teams move up or down

the other problem the suns' had with that pick is that they're obv trying to win now and it's hard to do that while also bringing along a top but raw prospect

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:46 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if this is their mindset they're morons. A team built around Kieff, Bledsoe and Alex Len isn't exactly a team whose window is closing.

If the Spurs lucked into a top 5 pick they'd just pick a great player and move on.

if anything they seemed to think they were closer than they actually are

http://i61.tinypic.com/5f59tu.png

;)

smashing records

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 13s13 seconds ago
Zach LaVine score 37 points last night passing Christian Laettner for the most in a game by a Timberwolves rookie.

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 1m1 minute ago
Lance Stephenson? Lowest 3-point percentage EVER with at least 100 attempts at .171. Previous low: Micheal Ray Richardson (.188) in 1981-82

omg

what an epic season he had

what will become of lance I wonder

hopefully he'll grow up a little and be a great rotation guy on a good team

he can only go up from here right?

seems like he'll always be a curiosity idk

i still think lance can be good

lance has played on uniformly awful offenses for his entire career, like bottom fourth of the nba bad. you can't completely eliminate his role in that i guess but he has a unique skillset and it would be interesting to see him play on a team that has established competence on that end.

but he also seems like a total headcase so maybe it's a supercool beasley situation with essentially one half-season of pretty good ball

Mike. D'Antoni.

as in, he should coach lance on a team? or wut

lance just needs to go on a vision quest, learn abt himself

The Hornets are so weird. They don't do many aggressively terrible things but it never quite works out.

seems like none of their dudes have a good year at the same time. Big AL was pretty bad this year but Kemba stepped up then Al kiiiiinda got it going and Kemba got hurt.

Kidd Gilchrist and Biyombo are actually pretty awesome Defensive Role Players

I guess the logic of the Lance deal was mayyyyybe he could be a superstar and then all of a sudden it's a team with a bunch of nice role players and complementary guys

theyre too goddamned slow, which can mess with other teams' style to a certain extent (and it did! they were rolling for a little bit). but the second that got figured out they were toast and they didnt try anything different

haha xxxp yeah MKG is cool, gerald henderson was good at times this year too

warriors are second team in NBA history to go a season without losing four games in a month

goldsberry charts & data on korver http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-kyle-korver-best-shooter-nba-atlanta-hawks/

By the end of the regular season, Korver had accumulated 182 points more than an “average” shooter would have from his exact same shooting opportunities. Once you account for volume, it’s clear that Korver had the most efficient scoring season in the league by a wide margin.

Points Above Average Shooter per 100 Shots (minimum 500 attempts):

1. Kyle Korver, plus-30.2
2. DeAndre Jordan, plus-17.4
3. J.J. Redick, plus-17.2
4. Stephen Curry, plus-17.0
5. Brandan Wright, plus-16.6

most predictable list ever of the worst:

1. Lance Stephenson, minus-20.0
2. Michael Carter-Williams, minus-19.4
3. Elfrid Payton, minus-18.1
4. Solomon Hill, minus-17.3
5. Dion Waiters, minus-17.3

goldsberry i love yr charts but u r dummmmb wow

well yea we are never posting these things for the words obviously

its just kinda shocking how bad he is at thinking about what the stats mean

elaborate (i think i might agree w/ you but am curious)

well measuring shooters league wide based on korvers constellation of shots is silly, those shots are the ones korver is good at! thats why he takes them! its like saying kyle korver is the best at being kyle korver, btw is it even clear from the article what hes talking about, does he just casually slide from the constellation data set to a general points per shot metric i cant tell

and then like just generally maybe some of the stuff hes saying is true but its just not very informative, he cldve dug deeper and like compared currys catch and shoot percentage to korvers, their % on open shots etc, but instead hes just all this guy is very efficient! cool i guess, its decontextualized to the point of just being a factoid

also the headline straight up says korver is the best shooter

many of his pieces r even worse than this one conceptually tho

there's a part in that article about how korver is the best shooter where he brings up a data point that implies the next best shooter is deandre jordan which either makes you question either what kinda data we're looking at or if the author is paying attention to how he's making his points

like you can like math and all but you have to be able to critically assess your math to really have a viewpoint that isn't "wow I like math check it out"

his articles kinda come of as him looking at one of his pretty charts and going oh and this part and this part and this part and then realizing that he shd somehow try to string those thoughts into an argument by saying efficiency

also like he says efficiency but theres clearly some sort unmentioned floor as far as number of shots taken to qualify for the list of best shooters

yea there's no nuance to it, like no control put out there against his hypothesis (the league average as a whole is too wide a swath of data to really serve as such). the easiest one would be as you said, someone like curry, who's often creating threes right away for himself off the dribble

title is prob the result of an editor tryna get optimal SEO juice outta that shit

also lol just checked and this does not include FTs! how convienent for kyle korver who only attempts 1.6 a game

and those are from technical fouls

like i fully believe in sports stats and their proper implementation, etc. etc. but the literalism can be baffling, like for example you would much rather have marc gasol on yr team as center than deandre - even though deandre's FG% (like his number in this somewhat arbitrary metric) is higher - because whether gasol's percentage is lower or not he's inherently a more diverse shooter & offensive player

yeah its a def forest for the trees type of situ, stats for stats sake

turns out efficiency on an individual player level is a p quicksilver concept

lol yeah i've been griping about goldsberry for a while. occasionally he'll come out with something worthwhile tho

just noticed this on bbrefrnce

gasol brothers minute totals in the 2014-2015 season:
marc 2687
pau 2681

13th and 14th in the nba respectively

i hadn't realised how strong george hill's season was