NBA NUMB3RS 2020-21

poeltl is an elite defender btw

Best single-season offensive rating in NBA history:

1. Clippers
2. Nets
3. Jazz
4. Nuggets
5. Blazers

All from this season. pic.twitter.com/xbepwZXGMO

— StatMuse (@statmuse) March 31, 2021

lol the next tweet

Worst single-season defensive rating in NBA history:

1. Kings this season
2. Blazers this season
3. Cavs in 2018-19
4. Pelicans this season pic.twitter.com/Fnlewv1g88

— StatMuse (@statmuse) March 31, 2021

gotta be cos no fans right?

that mostly and maybe teams are playing less D cause of the compressed schedule

and also obvs the league has been trending offensive for a while

very interesting caricature of a blazers player in those tweets, i'm gonna say damon stoudamire?

is that supposed to be dame? is the kings player...deaaron fox?

In 68 career games, Williamson has made 19 shots (on 56 attempts) from outside the paint. Four of those 19 came in his rookie debut. https://www.nba.com/news/power-rankings-notebook-week-15

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex5CEyVU8AIyemu?format=jpg&name=medium

No duplicates, interesting

giannis zion and joker the nbas "big three"

Who is the best 2-point scorer in the NBA right now? pic.twitter.com/c44Qn0HJ89

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) April 3, 2021

that’s a great graph

Since the All-Star break...

Winning %
Biggest ⬆️: Hawks
Biggest ⬇️: Raptors

OffRtg
Biggest ⬆️: Wolves
Biggest ⬇️: Lakers

DefRtg
Biggest ⬇️: Sixers
Biggest ⬆️: Thunder

NetRtg
Biggest ⬆️: Mavs
Biggest ⬇️: Warriorshttps://t.co/igfP4pJOW6

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) April 7, 2021

I don't know what that tweet is talking about, but the link says Sixers are #1 in Def Rating since the all-star break.

After shooting 6-6 3PT tonight, RJ Barrett is 61-133 (45.9%) from three over the Knicks last 40 games

— Jonathan Wasserman (@NBADraftWass) April 8, 2021

seems good

i always say if theres one thing thats good in the nba its hitting 3s

but the best shot is still the dunk

tatum 53-10-4

lavine 50-8-5

jokic dunks per 36 minutes by season

2016: 0.22
2017: 0.41
2018: 0.12
2019: 0.16
2020: 0.23
2021: 0.63 !!

lmao kevin that is psychotic

the big honey is liking the best shot more and more

love to be the biggest guy around and dunk every two games

Zion Williamson leads the NBA by averaging 19.7 points per game in the paint.

The last player to average more than that was Shaq in 2001-02 pic.twitter.com/QuSEcyeYtR

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) April 10, 2021

Zion knows that layups and dunks are good and so only takes layups and dunks.

Sound strategy

Here’s a wild one
Gary Trent 44-7-4 on 17/19 fg

damn

Enes Kanter has the first 30-rebound game in more than 3 years: https://t.co/MWaybBwDPE

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) April 11, 2021

Here’s a wild one
Gary Trent 44-7-4 on 17/19 fg

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i thought the trade worked for both teams in difft ways, but toronto getting another guard who can score was big for them imo

makes u think

A few weeks back, Daryl Morey appeared on the Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast, and in the course of answering a question about the state of analytics with respect to individual defense, had this to say: “I would say public-domain, all-in-one defensive measures are all really bad. I think internally, several teams have some pretty OK ones, not good. Defense is hard…it’s so dependent on what the coach wants them to do.”

imo catch all stats have developed as much as they can and are very limited by the inputs available

thats true but i think even more than that the big problem with basketball stats is described in the last sentence there, everything in basketball is under the scheme, and furthermore the scheme is schemed for team cooperation

the catch all offense stats are also really bad, maybe not as bad as the defensive ones but very bad none the less, the big advantage they have is its easier to measure offensive usage

all stats are going to need to be understood in the context of team and scheme, and the catch all stats make it very hard by being very complicated and particularly by attempting and failing to contextualize their results themselves, where granular stats lend themselves more to contextualization, tho with many of those you have the problem of bad data eg all "contested threes" are not equal

if a tree falls in the forest...

Russell Westbrook has put up a triple-double in 10 of his last 11 games 🤯

25/15/11
25/14/14
17/11/14
19/14/14
23/14/15
23/14/11
26/14/5
16/11/12
22/15/14
35/14/21
19/19/10 pic.twitter.com/MIxLBi12ET

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 15, 2021

kiiiiinda feel like the wizards are gonna knock the bulls out of that play-in spot?

35/14/21 is insane lol

should prob mention this little stretch curry is on over his last 8 games or so including last night where he had 25 points in the 2rd q on perfect shooting:

Stephen Curry in the 3rd quarter last night:

• 25 PTS, 4 AST, 8-8 FG, 6-6 3P, 3-3 FT

He joined Kobe Bryant and Klay Thompson as the only players to score 25 points in a quarter on perfect shooting pic.twitter.com/bWvWrtUo3U

— Antonin (@antonin_org) April 15, 2021

Steph’s last eight games have been UNREAL:

42 PTS | 6 REB | 8 AST
53 PTS | 6 REB | 4 AST
38 PTS | 8 REB | 5 AST
32 PTS | 6 REB | 5 AST
41 PTS | 6 REB | 4 AST
37 PTS | 5 REB | 2 AST
36 PTS | 11 REB | 3 AST
32 PTS | 5 REB | 6 AST

Bucket 💧 pic.twitter.com/5bUgCoioZz

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 15, 2021

hes made 29 threes in his last 3 games, most ever

im glad hes following my advice to shoot more but still its not enough im going to need him to shoot even more

jaylen brown 17-20 40pts

some truly monstrous lines lately

always seems to happen late in the season

yeah

Chris Paul over the last 4 games:

11 Assists - 0 Turnovers
9 Assists - 1 Turnover
10 Assists - 0 Turnovers
10 Assists - 0 Turnovers

40 Assists. 1 Turnover. Point God. pic.twitter.com/9PAZxwJVO3

— Hilltop Hoops (@HilltopNBA) April 16, 2021

he’s still really good

you gotta tip your hat to the little bastard

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzOb8v_VgAIP6y9?format=jpg&name=medium

amazing accomplishment: the wolves have not won two games in a row since the first two games of the season