The NBA Stats Thread: The 15-year chain reaction that led to the NBA's current offensive explosion

@SethPartnow Kobe has used a higher percentage of LAL's possessions just shooting than all but 30 (of 282) other players have shooting/passing combined
@SethPartnow Kobe has shot the ball 51% of the times he's touched in the front court this season.
@SethPartnow Among players w/ significant ball-handling duties (Time of Possession > 10%), next highest pct of touches leading to shots is Harder at 33%
#KobeSystem

His usage rate last night was 52.7%. :rofl:
 
The Lakers are on course for the worst defense ever at 117.8 points per 100 possessions per bball-ref.com.

This is their opponents'' shot chart for the season so far:
to be fair this will look a little better once we play east coast teams

but this is about what i expected from a kobe-lin-boozer-wes-hill starting lineup

b scott thinks 3s are so useless that he doesnt even bother defending them 
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Anthony Davis 31/11/3/3/3 on 14 of 20 w no turnovers, on the road.

JRue 5 of 19
Tyreke 5 of 18

:smh: :smh: :smh: :smh:


I disrespected the man putting him at 3. I need to put him at 1, or 0 or somethin higher than 1. :lol:
 
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'Boogie' vs. 'The Brow'

Tuesday's NBA docket is serving up a gem of a showcase that Vince McMahon himself would kill to promote: "Boogie" versus "The Brow."

DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis square off when the New Orleans Pelicans visit the Sacramento Kings in a matchup between two of the NBA's most-improved teams. And while they might not actually spend much time guarding each other, the spotlight on Davis and Cousins will bring some deserved attention to the most productive big men over the season's first month.

The ascension of Davis and Cousins is far from a surprise. Last season, Davis finished fifth in wins above replacement (WARP) despite missing 15 games, and Cousins ranked 13th despite missing 11. In 2014-15, both have taken another step toward truly elite status, and while there are some similarities in the backstories of these marquee big men, their stark on-court differences show that there's more than one way for a modern day behemoth to dominate the sport.

Davis is threatening to lap the field in WARP with his early numbers. His 3.2 WARP leads the league, with Golden State's Stephen Curry second at 2.7. Extrapolated over a full season, Davis is on target for 29.1 WARP -- seven more than Curry. Last season, Kevin Durant led the league at 22.1. Meanwhile, Cousins ranks seventh, even though his 30.1 minutes per game is more than three fewer than any of the other players in the top 10.

Both players spent their brief college careers at Kentucky under John Calipari, and they were teammates on last summer's FIBA World Cup-winning Team USA squad. They both shined last season as individuals, though their production for poor clubs didn't translate to team success. Davis ranked 98th with plus-1.43 RPM, and Cousins 127th with a plus-0.87. We don't have RPM (real plus-minus) data yet this season, but per Basketball-Reference.com, the Pelicans were just 1.6 points better per 100 possessions last season with Davis on the floor. This season, that number is plus-17.2. Cousins' leap is similar: from plus-0.8 to plus-17.2.

In other words, you can no longer say these players are putting up numbers in a vacuum. They are putting up eye-popping results in service of helping their teams win. We've got a long, long way to go, but when the Pelicans and Kings take the floor Tuesday, both will sport point differentials ranking in the top eight of the West. The playoff bracket of that conference isn't likely to support two breakout teams, so if an unexpected spot opens up, Sacramento and New Orleans could be vying for it -- which makes Tuesday night's pre-Thanksgiving tilt important in terms of a possible future tiebreaker.

The ascension of Davis and Cousins to the top of the charts has been aided by drop-offs by other would-be contenders -- veteran bigs who might climb back into the mix by the time all-league teams are announced. Kevin Love ranked third in WARP last season but has moved into a third-wheel role with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Joakim Noah has struggled with his health. Andre Drummond and Blake Griffin have just struggled. Dwight Howard ranks 41st. All of these players could easily climb near the top 10, but right now it's the Davis and Cousins show.

There are stark differences in body type, playing style and demeanor between the former Wildcats. Davis is longer and impossibly athletic, and he maintains a steady, implacable expression on the floor. Cousins is one of the strongest players in the NBA, also athletic and -- to put it mildly -- tends to wear his heart on his sleeve. Cousins is more prolific on offense, and while Davis is also high-volume for a big, he's more of a finisher than a creator. Davis is of course the better defender, and with his league-best block rate he could be a contender for Defensive Player of the Year.

Yet there is one chief difference between Davis and Cousins that serves in large part to explain their gap in production: foul rate. Davis has fouled on just 1.8 percent of his defensive possessions despite his prowess and heavy responsibility on that end. That rate is the lowest of any player on the Pelicans, and one of the lowest in the NBA. Cousins, meanwhile, has a foul rate of 7.2 percent, a big reason why his minutes are surprisingly low. Cousins has committed 5.9 fouls per 36 minutes, up from 4.2 last season.

News and notes

• Atlanta's Kyle Korver might be getting too good for his own good. Korver leads the Hawks in WARP in the early going -- a remarkable feat for a player with a 15.3 percent usage rate. Long recognized as one of the league's premier deep threats, Korver has reached guru status: He has mastered the art of the shot. Korver is shooting 57.7 percent from 3-point range, and according to Basketball-Reference.com, he's 10-for-13 (76.9 percent) from the corners.

In the last two games, Korver has taken just eight shots, including just one in Saturday's blowout loss to Cleveland in which he rested for the entire second half. Korver has never been a stationary shooter. He moves without the ball as well as any player in the NBA, and he's deadly as the trailer in transition. In half-court sets, you simply can't leave Korver unguarded, which is why he has such a high "gravity" score.

One of the issues with Al Horford's return is that it limits coach Mike Budenholzer's ability to play five-out offenses of the type that gave the Pacers so much trouble in the playoffs. While Atlanta needs Horford and Paul Millsap on the floor, there is a trade-off. Despite leading the league in assist rate and ranking fifth in effective field goal percentage, the Hawks are just 15th in offensive efficiency. It'll be interesting to see if Korver's limited recent attempts prove to be symptomatic of a teamwide malady. Also, it seems that NBA teams might just be getting flat-out better at defending spread-out offenses.

• The other day, I addressed at length Love's new role with the Cavs, and despite the Cavs' loss to Denver on Monday, it appears Love is becoming somewhat more of a factor inside the arc, getting 20 points and 11 boards against the Nuggets, and recording nine assists over the two games prior to that.

In Minnesota, Love would typically set up on the left side of the lane, where he could go to work in the post or drift out to the 3-point line if the play went to the other side of the floor. Many of his deep looks came after receiving the ball down low, followed by a kickout to the top for a ball reversal, and a subsequent pop out to the line. In Cleveland, Love is a floor-spacer-plus -- a guy whose primary offensive responsibility has been to generate entropy in the defense from the perimeter, instead of collapsing it from the block as he did so often for the Timberwolves. Things might be getting better, but Monday's loss shows it's still a work in progress -- for Love and the revamped Cavs as a whole.
 
Anderson playing off AD is a damn joke.

Wish they could pull Rondo. Add a Danny Green type and they'd be a blast on both ends.
 
For the record, Garnett signed Troy Hudson and Anthony Peeler. Not McHale.
 
#SwagEffect

With Nick Young back in the rotation, the Lakers have gone from a 1-9 record to winning two straight road games over a pair of last year’s playoff teams. Clearly this success isn’t entirely Young’s doing, but his 33 points in 56 minutes during the back-to-back has given the Lakers a much-desired scoring threat.

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He’s been good,” said head coach Byron Scott after the Lakers’ win over Houston Wednesday. “Two straight games that he’s given us exactly what we’ve needed off the bench. (He’s) been able to provide us with scoring. But again, on the defensive end he’s done a good job of one-on-one defense. He got caught tonight not helping one time, but other than that … he’s played very solid for us.”

After leading the Lakers with 17.9 points per game last season, Young added to his repertoire in the offseason by picking up on some of Kobe Bryant’s moves.

“We worked on that stuff a lot last year, worked on it a lot over the summer,” Bryant said. “It has been a big change in his game. In the past, he used to handle the ball a lot, dribbling five or six times. Now you see him catching, one dribble, pull-up shot. Two dribbles, pull-up shot.”
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25/10/4/4/6

Come on AD. :smh:


If not for a poor, poor showing at the foul line, that woulda been a 30/10/4/4/6 line.

Gimme another month, I'm bumpin this ****** to #1, to hell with #3.
 
AD update

30/15/3/3/2 on 14/19 shooting. :x

For the year

25.2
11.5
1.9
3.1
2.3
57%
33.75 PER
 
AD appreciation thread? I love it. Absolute freakish player, and putting up crazy numbers extremely consistently.
 
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