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look games in which your team rains down a hail of bricked threes are worth it for these individual stat lines

fwiw i do think the three ball has improved “spacing” to the degree that the game is probably better than it’s ever been but maybe there is another way to do that idk

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Giannis Antetokounmpo has the NBA’s 4th 50-point game in the last 4 days.

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 4, 2023

point totals are juicing

da balkan boyz

Players with 300 REB and 300 AST this season: pic.twitter.com/ogBNwnsdus

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 4, 2023

revive tito and reunite yugoslavia

Top shot maker by zone. pic.twitter.com/0bYHK0dvu5

— Todd Whitehead (@CrumpledJumper) January 5, 2023

insane stuff lol

Although I’m unclear on what points above expectation is. I guess points per FGA above the expected points per FGA for that zone?

its just like what would you expect oh i expect kd has scored 50 points from the left elbow wrong he scored 500 dummy

"points above expectation" is relative to a league average shooter facing the same situations and "top shot maker" is the product of the no. of shots a player has attempted in each zone and his Synergy Shot Making there.

Here's how we define expectation:https://t.co/gJPZ7RAlCY

— Todd Whitehead (@CrumpledJumper) January 5, 2023

Lauri 49-8

Highest TS% by a player with 20+ PPG in a season:

68.7 — Jokic this season
67.5 — Curry in 2018
67.3 — Durant this season
66.9 — Curry in 2016
66.9 — Markkanen this season
66.8 — Curry this season pic.twitter.com/0GgCVVJttq

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 9, 2023

this lauri season is really cool, hopefully its not a one season (or half season) thing!

need a breakdown of whats allowing him to flourish on the jazz that wasnt on the bulls and cavs

usage plus apparently he balled out in the euro basket and gave him all this confidence

i think theyre really letting him play like a 1st option ie dribble a lot where on those other teams they had him spaced out at the 3pt line and he could attack the closeout but wasnt really free to just try to create, cld be one of those things where hes on a heater and ends up not really be efficient enough to play that was, pretty sick heater tho if it is one

i was listening to some podcast (i think zach lowe) and someone compared lauri this season to julius randle in the post-bubble season which i thought made a lot of sense. he’s prob playing at his peak while being in a situation where the offense revolves around him & being a .500ish team feels like a wonderful accomplishment

he was def out of position in cleveland, i guess you can give their front office credit for seeing him as a legit player but putting him at the 3 with two other 7 footers on the floor was always farcical. and i think those bulls teams were just actively harmful… the line ups were like lavine, kris dunn, lauri, wendell carter being coached by jim boylen. prob one of the worst environments you could have in the NBA as a young player

yeah sounds about right, wonder if he could be a second option on a good team, kind of a weird spot where no one is going to want to trade a big package for him based on a half a season of nice production but on the other hand it might be good for the jazz to trade him now maybe theres a reasonable deal in there somewhere, tho ainge is not known for making reasonable deals so idk

he would be cool as the #2 guy on the mavs imo

was thinking the same but some risk there too his defense isnt good and wld have to go back to playing mostly off ball with luka, plus maybe he just turns back into a pumpkin, if the mavs could get him for cheap then yeah sure but otherwise think they shd try to find someone better like siakim

xp does their offense revolve around him though? at least early in the season i thought i heard he was getting a lot of his offense through transition and random actions...he has 2nd-highest usage on the team but it's 24.9%, not a crazy number or anything.

anyway i'd hate to see him go back to having to stand around watching some ball-dominant dude work, he seems like someone who particularly benefits from a more free-flowing game.

zone time

Leading Scorers By Zone. What Jumps Out? pic.twitter.com/1gzGBgW5Rd

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 9, 2023

shout out big al haha

horf in da corner

Three players have a chance to knock Steph out of the top spot this season:
Nikola Jokic (currently +0.23),
Kevin Durant (at +0.24), and
Steph Curry 😂 (+0.26). pic.twitter.com/oZqTRHCVSe

— Todd Whitehead (@CrumpledJumper) January 10, 2023

sengun with a 10-10-10 tonight

as a bonus he was also -10 for the game

haha

How does your favorite team split its offensive responsibilities? Here’s a look at how advantage creation duties are divided among the top 15 teams in the standings: pic.twitter.com/vrwwLUIOPU

— SIS Hoops (@SIS_Hoops) January 12, 2023

what da fuck is advantage creation

Introducing: Advantages Created
This metric measures when a ball-handler creates an opportunity, for themselves or a teammate, for a high-quality shot, regardless of whether that opportunity was seized. Here are the leaders in Advantages Created per 100 last season: pic.twitter.com/RKclN7UHcE

— SIS Hoops (@SIS_Hoops) August 22, 2022

proprietary

ah ty

surprised grant made the cut but horf didnt mb he gets credit for all those single dribble relocation threes

luka with 35-14-13 and game tying threes in both regulation and OT

christian wood with 24-14-6 and 5 blocks

tatum 51-9-5

LeBron since turning 38 years old:

37.0 PPG
9.7 RPG
8.6 APG

Leading the league in PPG + RPG + APG in that stretch. pic.twitter.com/00NN584xHt

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 17, 2023

thats crazy

Got his re-up just in time.

lolyup

The @Lakers scored 113 points with LeBron James on the court tonight. They didn't have a single turnover during that time.

He's the only NBA player in the last 20 years to have his team score 100+ points with no turnovers with him on the floor in a game.

— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) January 17, 2023

insane

i'm ready to acknowledge lebron is good at this

think we've finally settled the Bron vs Carmelo debate

jokic 36-12-10 on 13/14 shooting, +19, W

using made threes as a filter for stats like this is silly who cares how he scored his 24 points u see it so much now

LaMelo is putting up some special numbers this season! 👀@hornets | #LetsFly pic.twitter.com/W4KWWZX1jz

— Bally Sports: Hornets (@HornetsOnBally) January 19, 2023

Trying to find any way to say “is the only player(s) to xyz”

a generous way to look at it is it’s just creating a comp, not necessarily that lamelo and dame are the best players ever

the athletic did an article the other day about how good of a shot blocker derrick white is and they pulled out this stat “block percentage” (without explaining what it was) in which derrick white is a better blocker than *checks notes* giannis, bam and dray

from bball reference: "Block percentage is an estimate of the percentage of opponent two-point field goal attempts blocked by the player while he was on the floor."

derrick has been a prolific shot-blocking guard his whole career, he's in a class with d wade and danny green

The Timberwolves record this season is 28-18 when you remove the 3rd quarter from your calculation of the final score.

— jakes graphs (@jakesgraphs) January 19, 2023