NBA NUMB3RS 2020-21

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Myles turner had 8 blocks

42 points and 10 3s for Terry Rozier, the record for most 3s in a season opener

lol, i put him on my bench

and I thank you for doing so

harden 44-17
mccollumn 44-8

blake went 8-16 from 3 tonight. 16!

Steph Curry now 4-of-23 from 3 over the season's first nine quarters.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) December 28, 2020

but those 105 in a row in practice......

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Steph looks completely checked out no one on the team can make shots atm

Oubre Jr is now 0-31 on non-dunk attempts this season.

— Preston Johnson (@SportsCheetah) December 28, 2020

0-bre

I am not a professional basketball player but i am under the impression that's not good.

you gotta go at least 1 for 31 in today's game imo

He’s
Missed like 8 more since that post

His effort is there it’s just comical the shots aren’t falling at this point

tj mcconnell is now the all time leader in inbounds pass steals with 62

hah that's a great stat. tj's a good player.

That is a great stat

when did they start keeping that stat i wonder

idk but he took the crown from the glove

The Portland Trail Blazers snapped the Lakers' 57-0 record when leading after three quarters, beating the Lakers, 115-107, despite their advantage heading into the fourth.

— Melissa Rohlin (@melissarohlin) December 29, 2020

through 3 games trae young is averaging 15fta and making 14 of them

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hes had a good 3 games

early season changes

Year-over-year change in the share of shots coming from three or at the rim

IND and OKC are seeing the biggest jump after hiring new coaches (although I suspect in OKC's case the delta has more to do with the departure of CP3) pic.twitter.com/WvBrJKTiaL

— llewellyn jean (@owenlhjphillips) December 29, 2020

luka shooting 10% from 3 rn

Ha just came here to post his 3 %. Up to 16% after tonight's game!

demar derozan is 8-16 from 3 this year. he made 9 3's all last year.

no jinx but steph is within spitting distance of the most consecutive free throws made record

xp, sorry he's 7-13 from 3

this fuckin asshole has been hiding a 3 point shot all this time, my god

prob not lol

no but it kinda looks like he's worked on his release. he's hitting them in rhythm.

Oubre now 1/25 from three...

Progress!

Stephen Curry, 32, is the 2nd-oldest player in NBA history with a 60-point game, behind only Kobe Bryant in the final game of his career. @ESPNStatsInfo pic.twitter.com/7fawb0d5cd

— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) January 4, 2021

thats crazy

that kobe game remains one of the single most insane sporting events i’ve ever witnessed

That game was happening simultaneously with the game where curry eclipsed 400 3s in a season. It was truly a thrilling night for basketball.

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mind-boggling

das alotta dimes baby

tyrese maxey took 33 fga and zero fta

wow lol

that has to be a record

oh i forgot player game finder costs money now and also the internet sucks these days

ha, yeah i had that thought, too

it sucks but sportsreference is a tiny shop from what i remember, if they're making things non-free i'd like to believe they have their reasons

oh yeah it is good for those guys as much as anyone to be making some dough off their incredible product, i just pine for the internet of, like, 2016 even

ilh should go in for a shared sportsreference account or something

just turned 22 a few months ago, you have to assume he's gonna be one of these guys who works on his game and adds something every offseason. never want to count your chickens but he is definitely on track for a LeBron-esque career

yeah the things hes done at his age are not normal, theyre not normal for any age!

It’s weird, before he came into the league, I thought luka would be more of a conventional wing and that his lack of elite running & jumping athleticism might limit him. but watching him now it feels like he’s really a big, high-scoring point guard and his skills are perfectly suited to it

hes such an unusual player as far as how he gets his points, he uses his great first step to get to the second level then kind of bullies and hesitates his way around until he hits any number of weird touch shots or perfect passes, his 3pt game is a little more in line with your elite high usage guys as far as a lot of dribbling leading into stepbacks and so forth

feel like i should mention his crossover too which is great and key to all this stuff

like that shot chart hes just scoring from all over the paint who does that

getting middle so constantly like that makes his passing work too

Luka now has 4 career 40 point playoff games. That’s the same as:

Melo, Duncan, Dame, Kawhi, Karl Malone had in their careers.

It’s more than:
Kyrie, Pierce, AD, Ewing, Moses, Giannis, Isiah has in their careers.

He’s 22 years old and has played 11 career playoff games.

— nick wright (@getnickwright) June 3, 2021

With his next 40 point playoff game, Luka will move into a tie for 20th ALL TIME. He’ll tie Barkley, Bird, Havlicek, McAdoo, Petit & Dominique.

We are watching a true phenomenon.

— nick wright (@getnickwright) June 3, 2021

ICMYI: I watched all of Curry's and Doncic's regular season 3PAs to see how accurate the NBA's shot type classifications are

tl;dr: Missed step backs are regularly recorded as missed jump shots resulting in inflated 3P% on step back attemptshttps://t.co/K8jyf5j9Cs pic.twitter.com/EatISv1OHY

— Owen Phillips (@owenlhjphillips) June 3, 2021

Leading Scorers By Zone, Last 25 Years pic.twitter.com/R5BbIxrRxS

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) August 24, 2021

can't believe trae won a zone already

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that image is wacky and reminds you of just how good dirk was

The game has changed, dirk shoulda shot more threes honestly. Kinda surprised cP hasn’t taken one of those spots from dirk, or derozan

at the time a lot of people myself included thought he should be taking more threes but the thing about dirks midrange was he could just get a good look from there all the time, prob one of the more reliable plays ever

Oh yeah that shot was automatic I don’t think a ton more threes just avg like 1-2 more per game and he prob woulda won some scoring titles

the #7 and #8 seeds are 0-32 in series and 41-144 (.222) in games.

Only one player in NBA history has made 300 3s in a season while also shooting at least 40% from beyond the arc. Stephen Curry, who has done it 4 times in the last 6 seasons pic.twitter.com/lcaISrswBt

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) September 9, 2021

steph is universally recognized as the best shooter ever but feel like its not generally understood how much better he is than everyone else

hes so much better at shooting it puts him in the conversation for best offensive player ever

no one can even attempt as many shots as him!

lol

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That Kobe lol

buddy hield kind of an insane shooter. he must be bad at everything else & unlikable

yeah i think thats pretty much it

this graph lays it out pretty well but i think in the last 2-3 seasons the tiers of NBA shooting are basically

[in his own stratosphere]

steph

...

dame
james harden

...

duncan robinson
buddy hield
joe harris

...

tim hardaway jr
devonte graham

klay would be the missing link here, we'll see how he looks. trae young was fighting to get in this group somewhere but was 32nd in 3PA this year and 45th in 3P made (behind ppl like kyle kuzma, mike conley, andrew wiggins, brandon ingram) so he's changed his game up, prob for the better ultimately. he also doesn't have the volume from three but anecdotally i'd prob throw middleton in this group, he should shoot more threes

Obviously we can only speculate on what Klay will look like but based on his track record pre-injury he's sort of in his own tier, more efficient than Dame/Harden and more volume than the Joe Harrises of the world. Maybe that would put him at #2, though I'd probably slot him in between Dame and Harden given how much he has benefited from his context playing off Steph. And yeah, Steph really is amazing. So happy we got to see him back to himself this past year.

yeah guys who create their own shots have to go ahead of spot up shooters like klay, klay is the best spot up shooter tho

harden is frustrating cause hes such a great shooter but insists on taking only the most difficult shots

Harden basically breaks the algorithm, even now with however many years to imitate his thing, no one really plays like him. I'm not complaining. Glad Trae has shifted to a different track

klay in his own tier for spot up shooter yeah

creators:

steph >>>>>>> Dame >> Harden >>> PG >> lavine > tatum >>>> fvv > trae > luka > mitchell > middleton >>> rozier > graham > beal > kemba

spot up:

klay >>> hield >> harris > d rob >> bertans > bojan

-harris kinda capped since hes on a team with 3 insane scorers, but he'd be up there otherwise.
-Ingles has been amazing but not enough shot attempts really
-JJ woulda been in that bottom list easily but finally got old and dropped off last season
-we might have to add lonzo ball to this at some point lol
-kat needs to shoot more threes?
-cj belongs on one of these lists but not sure which one, he spots up and creates?

you cannot put lavine ahead of tatum on that list sorry i simply will not allow it

yah swap those

thank you

we need to see if last year was an anomaly for lavine

its gotta be, at least somewhat

if current trends hold tatums gonna pass pg soon

tatum 38% on 7.5 attempts
lavine 42% on 8.5 attempts

its a fluke

57% overall, if he can keep this up i will have no choice but to tip my cap

interesting for their career their basically the same player in regard to shooting percentages
https://stathead.com/tiny/7oUGP

yeah uncanny, lavine is three years older tho

57% overall, if he can keep this up i will have no choice but to tip my cap

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 9, 2021 11:07 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

57% on 2s, 50.7% overall. close to a 50/40/90.. ft at 85%

oh yeah i misread that still much better than hes ever done before

wow the offensive numbers are really identical. but once you look at defense even the numbers make it clear they're not the same tier of player (not to mention "playoffs" lol)

yeah the defense makes a major difference. both need to keep improving their passing

feel like even tho their reg season numbers are the same tatums game is just so much more sound, and has more room to grow

and yeah the defense is obvs wildly different

def more room to grow, other than that step backwards in year two when he was briefly enamored with kobe hero ball, he's been on a pretty consistent upward trajectory. lavine's career looks more like a plateau with an outlier this past year. but like you said, if he can sustain what he did this year, good on him

yah tatum has the 'it' factor.

lots of talking heads were excited about lavines team usa showing thinking it might springboard him into being a sound defender. would be cool but i have doubts.