2019/2020 = NBA > STATS

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHSTFrtXkAAXr2w?format=jpg&name=medium

i'm glad everyone's finally come around on westbrook being bad

wow for some reason i thought stackhouse was an ok shooter.

that guy was pure volume on really trash teams as I recall it, very of his era

Wasn’t he pretty much just a below average nba player apart from one season

mostly iirc

drummond kicks things off with 32-23-2-3-4

should have been 2 or 3 blocks

Mavs score over 100 in a win with no player getting at least 15 points

They have some cool players

brow 40-10 in 30mins

took 27 fts lol

some early infos

Pascal Siakam is averaging 27.5 points, up from 16.9 last season, and he’s doing it with a drastically different style than before.

Siakam fed off corner 3s and cuts in the halfcourt, but now he's creating for himself using post-ups and pick-and-rolls. https://t.co/7uHLuW8Pr7 pic.twitter.com/Ka96chnQpr

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) October 30, 2019

Among the 28 lineups with 24+ minutes this season, the Nuggets second unit and Nuggets first unit are the slowest lineups in the NBA (bench at 90.1, starters at 96.1).

The Pacers starters (97.3), Jazz starters (99.8) and Hawks starters (100.3) round out the slowest five units.

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) October 30, 2019

I’m not sure what’s going on with the Nuggets pace. Doesn’t make sense

I think they were pretty slow last year but they also would push the ball off most rebounds

their best player is very slow

Yeah but I feel like he’s better when the pace is fast!

I guess my big issue is that the pace is really slow right now but they aren’t really posting Jokic up that much

gross

James Harden leads the NBA in points despite ranking 16th in made field goals.

How does he do it?

He's scoring 15.8 points per game at the free throw line!

That's more than Jokic, CP3, and Al Horford are scoring overall pic.twitter.com/25RKqEjLUq

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) October 31, 2019

Through games on Oct. 30, here's how all members of the Phoenix Suns have fared in TPA during the 2019-20 #NBA season. #RisePHX pic.twitter.com/uiba9qPm5x

— NBA Math (@NBA_Math) October 31, 2019

james harden is a monster

Suns been good and Booker hasn’t really played/shot well yet .

Baynes>Ayton

two truths and no lie

ayton is good u guys just because he does drugs doesnt mean hes a bad person

I know people can't always reconcile what STL and BLK% mean so let me clarify it.

Thybulle has 12 steals and 6 blocks in 4 games.

— TS% Eliot (@Cosmis) October 31, 2019

Chris Paul has the best all time career offensive rating of 122.54.

Through five (5) games this season, Aron Baynes has an offensive rating of 134 😳 pic.twitter.com/Au78hQSitv

— sunOfficial Aron Baynes Fan Club (@BaynesFanClub) November 1, 2019

Hmmm. Maybe they should be comparing Baynes' five game rating to the all-time best rating across... five games.

no

ya I'm beginning to suspect sunOfficial Aron Baynes Fan Club mayyyyy be biased here

madness

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIUDqxlW4AEMKQy?format=jpg&name=medium

the god

Ivica Zubac held LaMarcus Aldridge to 0-of-4 shooting last night in the ~16 possession they matched up on, according to Second Spectrum's player tracking data. Zubac is holding players to 15-of-46 shooting (32.6%) overall and 7-of-22 shooting (31.8%) inside 8 feet.

clips are destined just give em their rings now

D Rose been Ballin out. >20ppg on >55% shooting. Plus 6 apg when he hasn't averaged 5 or more since leaving the Bulls.
Drummond with another 20/20 game.

Phil Jackson was just a year early

kawhi leonard assist percentage

2012: 6:6
2013: 7.7
2014: 10.4
2015: 13.0
2016: 13.0
2017: 18.9
2018: 17.7
2019: 16.4
2020: 41.7

that’s crazy

kawhi can just get good at whatever he wants its not a big deal to him

it’s a bit unfair to others

wait did kawhi do to cp3 what the monstars did to MJ?

cp3 assist percentage

2012: 43.8
2013: 46.5
2014: 48.9
2015: 47.4
2016: 52.7
2017: 46.8
2018: 40.9
2019: 39.3
2020: 20.6

o shit

I’m not saying kawhi definitely stole cp3’s talent in a similar way to how the monstars did it but I’m just saying it’s suspicious

hahahaha

haaa

7'1" Meyers Leonard recorded 0 blocks last season

― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

wuuuut lol how is that even possible

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:43 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Meyers Leonard has 5 blocks in his last two games

Pacers finally use the TJ TJ TJ Holiday Holiday lineup

an historic moment

the triple double lineup

bless

Ha very nice

russ was -46 in 26 minutes tonight

hm that seems bad

is that bad?

possibly better than -26 in 46 minutes

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIixwGfUcAAY62y?format=jpg&name=medium

Lakers defense is really solid so far.

ad is good

maybe good enough to embarrass bron into trying

Dwight has been giving them some great minutes

if he keeps this up it changes their whole outlook

Jonathan Isaac became just the third player in the @NBA since 1983-84 with 13+ points, 10+ rebounds, 5+ assists, 6+ blocked shots and 4+ steals in a single game.

Isaac joins Hakeem Olajuwon (8 times) and Ralph Sampson as the only players to accomplish the feat.#MagicAboveAll

— Orlando Magic PR (@Magic_PR) November 7, 2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/dt0ucg/i_analyzed_james_hardens_performance_in_every_nba

this is awesome

I’m absolutely beside myself with rage over the methodology here. This isn’t a bit, I’m mad. I’m livid

LA and New York do NOT have good strip clubs. This is remedial stuff

lol I have only been to one strip club in my life when I turned 21 in Vegas

What is the rating criteria?

He basically sorted what the top 10 strip clubs in each city were by amount of google hits and then looked at like yelp ratings

source data aside i think it was still pretty funny

I honestly am a bit confused as to how New York and LA ended up with good google ratings

And a confounding factor in all this is that Houston is the best

bit creeped out by how much you seem to know about strip clubs tbh

thank god he doesn't play in my hometown he'd score 70 a night

not even yelp ratings, google reviews! i don’t know anyone who has google reviewed anything, much less a strip club.

Yeah I see google reviews when I use google maps sometimes but they’re always very strange

is there s strip club app similar to w33dmaps ?

That’s a good idea... there’s a site called tuscl but you have to pay to read the reviews

bit creeped out by how much you seem to know about strip clubs tbh

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger),

guess not everyone itt follows matt on twitter

I’ve moved on and am all about positive irl vibes

positive vibes is the key to life

dame scored 60

52 pts for dlo

L’s both of them

Kyrie got 50 in a loss in the first game. you've gotta share those points around.

idk what these stats are but it sounds good!

Players exceeding +1.5 OPIPM and DPIPM this year:

Giannis Antetokounmpo
Kawhi Leonard
Jayson Tatum

— Max Carlin (@maxacarlin) November 10, 2019

pacers/magic just set a new record low for total fta

pacers 5
magic 6

matchup data has Kuzma guarding Siakam for 7 possessions. Siakam shot 7-for-7 in that time, scoring 18

— Louis Zatzman (@LouisZatzman) November 11, 2019

I wonder if James Harden cracks 40 points per game this season.

Harden is averaging 37.3 points through 10 games while shooting only 29.8% from 3. But if he were shooting 3s at the same percentage as last season (36.8%), he'd be averaging 41.2 points. pic.twitter.com/GQ90aJHHi8

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) November 12, 2019

maybe just maybe shooting for 40ppg means taking a lower quality of shot idk ijs

you got to get all the points man

Tobias Harris 0/11 on 3s

http://bkref.com/tiny/sKGZN

Didn’t Brett Brown say he was their new jj redick

Coby White is the first rookie to knock down seven 3s in a quarter.

http://bkref.com/tiny/3wUac

harden is averaging 15.1 FTA/game. don’t think wilt’s record will ever be broken but he’s got an outside chance at a 1000 free throw season

we are truly living in an era of loony numbers

James Harden is now averaging 38.2 PTS/G.

The only NBA player to ever average 38 or more PTS/G for a full season is Wilt Chamberlain. pic.twitter.com/yxkh46W500

— bluewirepods (@bluewirepods) November 14, 2019

I thought his numbers would dip w Russ but he’s just basically not even caring what Russ is doing and still getting his

hes a guy who loves to score points you have to give him that

yeah it doesnt matter who hes playing with hes gonna dribble it between his legs out by the three point line a bunch then shoot a three or maybe drive, he might even pass it to someone on his team but he prob doesnt know their name

he’s the GTO player which is why I love him

he plays basketball as if it's a mildly challenging sunday crossword

ok lol

im sure when he looks at other players he wonders why theyre running around so much

Lmao

Harden and the rockets are just boring to me now. Like I’ve seen this story

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-nba-player-ratings/

RAPTOR WAR

the new jurassic park sounds pretty sick

will barton???

that's weird

he's 53.1% on threes, so that helps

he's high on the defense part of the metric tho

Barton has been amazing

Jamal Murray not amazing

nuggets season is really weird so far. helps to be winning through the weirdness tho.

The Jazz are also doing that

Mo Wagner 30-15-2-1-1 in 25 min

who da fuck is mo wagner

Precisely

he was kinda nasty at michigan, dollar store markanen vibes

harden 40ppg watch: 38.7

http://bkref.com/tiny/bONWz

can’t remember if I already posted this but there have been 17 2600-point seasons (harden had 2818 last year, 10th all-time). if he averages 38 and plays 79 games (one more than he played last year), he’ll finish with 3002. only wilt and MJ have broken 3000

the weird guy will do it

he was kinda nasty at michigan, dollar store markanen vibes

Cam Reddish down to 27.1 eFG% on the year.

Among the 229 players with 20 minutes per game, the next closest to him for the worst in the league is Jordan Poole at 34.5.

Yikes.

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) November 17, 2019

Didn’t Trae young start that bad last year?

Cam has looked gross but he’s keeping himself on the floor by playing decent D

harden 40ppg watch: 38.7

― lag∞n, Saturday, November 16, 2019 12:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

39.5

will forever love jordan poole for his shot against houston in the 2018 ncaa tourney, but idk if anyone was really expecting him to excel right away.

i see now that post was about reddish, who turned 20 in september

Didn’t Trae young start that bad last year?

― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Sunday, November 17, 2019 1:26 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

nope did have a pretty rough stretch from deep tho https://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4277905/type/nba/year/2019

i think reddish was always gonna be a project, he got caught in a bad situation at duke w/ zion and RJ. it looks like he has a lot to learn about how to play basketball

i thought de'andre hunter made sense for them... getting a wing and defensive stopper to pair with trae. but i watch them now and wonder if they'd have been better off taking a player who can do more when the ball in his hands. hunter will almost def be very good on defense but if his offense maxes out at otto porter/oubre im not sure i'll be overly enthused.

I'm on the fence on both rooks. Cam has the nba body and good instincts, but sucks at putting the ball in the basket. Hunter has looked really solid on offense some games and not so much others. He's surprisingly good at getting to the basket, but a mediocre finisher. I'm willing to wait on both, but tempering my expectations.

pg 37pts in 20mins, a record

if he stays healthy harden will probably join wilt in the 1000 FTA club, too

http://bkref.com/tiny/Xq4hy

i think im “getting back into harden” his antics demand attention

T H E K E M B A E F F E C T pic.twitter.com/J6gOG8cq0u

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) November 20, 2019

celtics mindset

interesting. kemba definitely is one of the lowest TOV/high usage dudes ever

http://bkref.com/tiny/0aVOF

Spurs on off numbers are really something

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAS/2020/on-off/

the basic thing is the starters get smoked and then the bench come in and play ok

marco belinelli has been one of the worst players in the league but he leads the spurs in +/- bc he coattails off the other bench players

they had a similar problem last year iirc

those kemba team turnover stats are wild hes like the steve nash of not turning the ball over

Clint Capela is the first player to grab at least 20 rebounds in five straight games since Ben Wallace in 2003. The last player with six consecutive 20-rebound games was Dennis Rodman in 1995 (Rodman’s streak ended at seven). So much for the idea Russ would steal Capela's boards.

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) November 21, 2019

probably time to start playing derrick white with dejounte murray a little more

The San Antonio Spurs have 4 of the 30 worst defenders in the NBA, according to TPA defensive points saved.

Pop is starting three of them.

Rankings:

1. Forbes is the worst in the NBA.
14th worst: Patty
18th worst: Marco
30th worst: DeMar

You. Cant. Make. This. Up. pic.twitter.com/IyA3HOPeeM

— Eric Salinas (@EricSal_7) November 22, 2019

seems not great

giannis did 24-19-15-3-1

only done once b4: http://bkref.com/tiny/5vOnx

James Harden has 3 of the top 5 spots for highest turnovers in a season. The other 2 spots are held by Russell Westbrook. No other spot in top 10 is from a season in the last 30 years.

haha thats great

dream team

they've both got to own the top 5 highest usage seasons as well i would imagine

yup

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=per_game&per_minute_base=36&per_poss_base=100&season_start=1&season_end=-1&lg_id=NBA&age_min=0&age_max=99&is_playoffs=N&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&as_comp=gt&as_val=0&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&c1stat=tov&c1comp=gt&c1val=350&order_by=usg_pct

lol Ricky Sobers

wait this shows highest usage rates better:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=per_game&per_minute_base=36&per_poss_base=100&season_start=1&season_end=-1&lg_id=NBA&age_min=0&age_max=99&is_playoffs=N&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&as_comp=gt&as_val=0&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&c1stat=tov&c1comp=gt&c1val=20&order_by=usg_pct

high minutes, high usage, sorted by fewest turnovers:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=per_game&per_minute_base=36&per_poss_base=100&season_start=1&season_end=-1&lg_id=NBA&age_min=0&age_max=99&is_playoffs=N&height_min=0&height_max=99&year_max=2019&birth_country_is=Y&as_comp=gt&as_val=0&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=mp_per_g_req&c1stat=usg_pct&c1comp=gt&c1val=30&order_by=tov&order_by_asc=Y

high usage and numerical turnovers go hand in hand

Lavine 49 points w 13 threes and zero assists:

all 49 point games and above with zero assists (excluded the many times wilt did it):
http://bkref.com/tiny/rhzxE

Players in NBA history to attempt at least 15 three-pointers in a game and shoot worse than 14%

∙ James Harden 4 times
- 1/17 last season
- 2/18 this October
- 2/16 three weeks ago
- 2/15 today

∙ Dennis Scott
- 2/17 in January 1996

∙ Gerald Green
- 2/15 in Dec. 2014

— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) November 24, 2019

Mo Wagner currently leads the NBA in TS%. I think the wizards got him just for facilitating other teams’ trades

bertans is balling out too and they got him for for facilitating the signing of marcus morris which never happened

Embiid 0/11 and zero points in 32 minutes

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT, @JoelEmbiid?! pic.twitter.com/GL0E618V5K

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) November 26, 2019

Apparently the stats say Trae Young is the worst defender in the NBA. Something to work on

stands to reason

I wonder if it’s possible that someone could be the worst defender in the NBA and there’s nothing they can do about it no matter how hard they try

seems like there are some guys who are small and slight who will always be pretty significant negatives. isaiah thomas tried but he was short, had no length to get steals or deflections, and didn't have the core strength to offer any resistance.

he does try. hawks really need an elite 5 who can have his back better than alex len

im sure trae can improve w experience but yeah his defensive ceiling is very... low

whiteside one bucket shy of the coveted points-rebounds-blocks triple double

harden 60pts in 30mins

most points with <25 fga ever

Atlanta loses a lot

The 12 highest scoring games in Rockets history:

James Harden - 61
James Harden - 61
James Harden - 60
James Harden - 60
James Harden - 59
James Harden - 58
James Harden - 58
James Harden - 57
James Harden - 57
Calvin Murphy - 57
James Harden - 56
James Harden - 54

— Rob Kimbell (@RobKSports) December 1, 2019

he gave up a wide open fastbreak layup to feed westbrook a dunk in the 1st quarter

James Harden learns from jumbotron he just got taken out two points from his career high pic.twitter.com/N2dwDMDNrn

— James Wobden (@WorldWideWob) December 1, 2019

29-15-3 for Giannis in 22 minutes

His stats are better than last years m/l

Mvp is his to lose

giannis luka and harden all averaging a league record per rn, stats gone wild, were in a new era

its the combo of tighter officiating and every player deciding to become amazing at shooting maybe

the recognition of the concept of efficiency in shot selection prob is something too

the hoopers listened to the nerds and now we're here

midrange shots arent even that fun anyway not sure why it was such a tough sell

remember what team i like tho

17/14/4/5/4 for Drummond

wow when was the last 5x4

j Isaac did one a couple weeks back I think

nurk had a 5x5 last year right

harden 40ppg watch: 39.5

James Harden had a 15.4 usage rate tonight. That's his lowest since Nov. 29, 2013 (!).

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) December 6, 2019

Rockets version of load management?

booker had a solid 44-8-9 tonight

brow 50-7-6-4-1

Most assists to a single teammate:

LeBron James to Anthony Davis (75)
Ben Simmons to Tobias Harris (56)
Lou Williams to Montrezl Harrell (50)
Bradley Beal to Thomas Bryant (49)

— pickuphoop (@pickuphoop) December 9, 2019

Wiggins, who is getting more assists this year, has 6 assists to Towns

Ben McLemore has 161 3-point attempts & 0 mid-range attempts this season. https://t.co/g2N2aakZVz

His ♾ is ****ing up my table that ranks players by their 3PA/MRA ratio.

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) December 10, 2019

Miami box score all kinda fun stuff. triple doubles by jimmy and bam and ~35 point games by Nunn and Robinson. Tyler herro goose egg

bam had several plays in that game where i feel like the only comparison in the current nba is giannis. just in terms of a guy that size taking the ball all the way down the floor with that kind of fluidity and finishing right at the rim. he was punishing alex len all game. and then he pulls off a rondo at the end on some jokic shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlxA39IE44

sick

hes a top 5 player to watch currently

wasnt he used like exclusively as a dunker in college lol

I remember when the heat drafted him and I was upset

not nba but
https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2019/12/11/21010865/jj-culver-100-points-box-score-photo-jarrett-brother-nba-draft-naia

🤔 https://t.co/tcPdZWoKLz

— Russillo (@ryenarussillo) December 11, 2019

that post just convinced me that plumlee and herro are doomed to grow a goatee

why cant whites grow arms

JJJ 43/5 w 9 3s

nice

harden 40 point watch: 39.3

if I ever get the time I’m going to make a graph of harden’s career numbers because the trends are kind of nuts: literally year after year he has extremely similar peripheral numbers - true shooting, assist percentage, rebound percentage, turnover percentage, etc, despite an ever increasing workload/usage. he’s just a machine

harden 40 point watch: 39.3

― k3vin k., Saturday, December 14, 2019 6:48 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so close!

real plus minus is up. lebron out to a big lead

https://i.imgur.com/bJck0Qy.png

3 wins, of them good (against harden rockets!) and 2 of them kinda pitiful (fox-less kings, booker-less suns), loss against the cavs (woof)

the good news lonnie walker is good, the bad news he's like 9th in the rotation

nets made only 8 two-point shots. nba record in in shot clock era. 13/50 from three 21/78 overall. 26.9% shooting lol.

hideous

real dead cat bounce vibes from these Knicks.

lol

Through games on Dec. 26, here's how all members of the Dallas Mavericks have fared in TPA during the 2019-20 #NBA season. #MFFL pic.twitter.com/bN7w67w0Pb

— NBA Math (@NBA_Math) December 27, 2019

Devin Booker ranks 245th of 250 qualified players in 538's RAPTOR defensive metric. He ranks 430th of 447 for ESPN's Defensive RPM metric. The Suns are 11 points per-100 better defensively when he sits than when he plays.

Five straight years of this. Maybe it's just who he is?

— Ben Dowsett (@Ben_Dowsett) December 28, 2019

Booker's DRPM rank for each year of his career:

18-19: 496th of 514
17-18: 502nd of 521
16-17: 451st of 468
15-16: 419th of 423

He has NEVER ranked outside the NBA's *bottom 20 players* in DRPM. Not once in five years, including this year. It's kinda amazing.

— Ben Dowsett (@Ben_Dowsett) December 28, 2019

Booker's ranking in D-PIPM for each year in his career:

19-20: 468th of 472
18-19: 530th of 530 (dead last)
17-18: 513th of 540
16-17: 459th of 486
15-16: 455th of 476 https://t.co/td0kF8WNTq

— Ben Dowsett (@Ben_Dowsett) December 28, 2019

seems bad

He hates defense so much it pains him to see ppl dbl team him in pickup games. Those poor fools.

All time offensive rebound leaders NBA/ABA
2. Artis Gilmore* 4816
3. Robert Parish* 4598
4. Buck Williams 4526

OK I knew he was a beast on off glass but…

1. Moses Malone* 7382

moses was a 3-time mvp winner! i feel like he doesnt get talked about enough as an all-timer

5th all-time rebounder, 9th all-time scorer, finals mvp, its a fuckin resume

i agree. it was a good time to be a center but looking back at his peak season stats will remind you that they were totally nuts. i think he would have been a compelling player in the modern game too.

oh i think his lack of passing or outside shooting would fuck him up in the modern game. the man never averaged more than 1.8 APG.

A bit of history for you. The Trail Blazers acquired Moses Malone in the ABA dispersal draft that happened when the NBA and ABA merged. However, the Blazers already had Bill Walton at center and had just acquired Maurice Lucas, too, so they traded Malone away at once for money and a 1st round pick.

The next season (1976-77) the Trail Blazers won the NBA championship, largely on the strength of the players they picked up in the dispersal draft. Nobody missed Moses Malone... until Walton got hurt in 1978, and the Blazers had no decent backup center, and they didn't get back to the Finals for another 13 years.

shit, another case of the blazers not picking someone bc they felt set at that position, when will they learn

oh i think his lack of passing or outside shooting would fuck him up in the modern game. the man never averaged more than 1.8 APG.

― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Wednesday, January 1, 2020 11:02 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well i'm imagining he'd get modern coaching too. he was a more than respectable free throw shooter and i bet he could have done a little more passing.

if the lopez bros can learn to shoot threes this far into their career i figure moses malone coulda figured it out over a couple summers

thats true

also he hit this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvPCLpABrwU&feature=emb_title

still one of the wildest shots ive ever seen

https://youtu.be/kvPCLpABrwU

try again

I think "black hole" was 1st used as term in bball for that 6ers team with Moses and Andrew Toney

moses passed.........it to himself off the rim

some of those off rebs should be reclassified as self-assists

NBA Scoring Leaders:

1. James Harden 38.3 ppg
2. Giannis Anteokounmpo 30.3 ppg
3. etc.

rockets need to trade russ so harden can average 40

jokic 47-8-5-2-1 with no turnovers

23rd player with 47 and not TOs

Bojan Bogdanovic had 35-0-0-0-0

straight buckets

http://bkref.com/tiny/ry44t

I remember that game, Slam magazine mentioned it in like every issue for a few years

weird

Proof of the NBA’s dwindling middle class:

We’re almost halfway into the season, and only ONE team (OKC) is on pace for a win total in the 40s. Everyone else is pacing for 50-plus or 38-or-less.

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) January 8, 2020

nets have lost 7 in a row and still have the 8 seed with a 2.5 game advantage

they shd do that play in tournament but then at the end announce that none of them are allowed in the playoffs

Giannis on pace to be the only player in NBA history to average 30 ppg without being in the top 50 minutes played

seems to be a trend for star players to have super high usage but play short minutes, lukas the same way

makes sense let em do their thing but understand that its tiring

Giannis on pace to be the only player in NBA history to average 30 ppg without being in the top 50 minutes played

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:48 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

curry had to be close in 2016

he was 25 in minutes played that season. around 34 mpg

giannis is 31 mpg ha

i could live another 300 years and still never be able to keep Bogdan Bogdanović and Bojan Bogdanović straight.

James Harden 11 turnovers in the first half. Record for a game is apparently 14?

He had 13 in a close out game vs the dubs that one time

fished w 11 lol

I am Brandon Ingram pic.twitter.com/0DHUYmZBjm

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 13, 2020

hes good folks, headed toward second banana on a contender who plays both sides of the court status

.......if only the pelicans had a superstar in the pipeline

btw teams getting good returns for their stars has made the nba more interesting

wait isnt he really bad at defense still?

yeah but i believe in him

wonder if he has a tapeworm or smth tho

might just have that KD build

this seems not normal

17th starting lineup on the season

134th of Gentry’s career with the Pelicans. https://t.co/SZyFYRe2Gc

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) January 13, 2020

might just have that KD build

― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, January 13, 2020 5:52 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes got a much bigger frame than kd thoooo

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the first player in NBA history aged 21 or under to have a 20 point, 20 rebound, 10 assist game.

— Matt Smith (@SmanSports) January 14, 2020

that is a LOT of rebounds for a guard

to be fair, the bigs in OKC have been trained to let guards get the rebounds.

lmao

shai is good i ride for shai only partially cause his first name is pronounced the same as my last name

23/15/8 for kevin huerter who is finally healthy and finding his groove a bit

Don’t listen to charlatans that say the midrange game is dead. Star players still take them, role players have moved back to give more space.
Also, thresholds on hex plots can be abused to drive a narrative.

2010-11https://t.co/9oQfHZ9hKr
2018-19https://t.co/Sn9Ql6rzPm pic.twitter.com/KJHyE4XEvw

— Ryan Davis (@rd11490) January 15, 2020

its really the long twos thatve fallen off a cliff, down by 50% in that chart, wldve expect the in between game to have increased feels like floaters are a bigger deal now but its pretty stable in those charts

he has the images in reverse chronological order there btw

yeah the long twos are the killer. funny to watch old iverson clips and hes doing step backs and pull ups with his heels basically on the 3p line multiple times per game it seems.

yeah no one gave a shit lol

kg lived in that zone, but cld hit them

NEW HABERSTAT

For the first time ever, Gregg Popovich and the Spurs are avging 30+ 3-pt attempts this month, the last and final team in the NBA to cross that 30+ plateau.

2019-20 Spurs 3FGA/game
Oct: 23.0
Nov: 26.3
Dec: 28.9
Jan: 33.2

New Year, New Pop? pic.twitter.com/qf1AvLPXf9

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) January 15, 2020

pop welcome

btw noticed that harden takes a not that common shot all the time now, its an in between shot thats a runner rather than a floater like he doesnt stop to shoot it he takes it on the move, and hits it like crazy, sometimes its even kinda a half hook too, creative man

kg lived in that zone, but cld hit them

I never thought Aldridge would figure out 3s

lebron 19 pts 19 assists
luka 21-15-17

Luka 6 TOs & < 50% FG too

six turnovers is fine when you have 19 assists

I only watched the first half and he didn’t really seem to have it going, looks like he played better in the second. he actually hasn’t looked as good since coming back from injury, wonder if something is lingering

expecting him to play how he did to start the season all the time is a lot

shooting 31.7% from three on the season. his free throw rate and percentages look good. hovering around 60% true shooting. got to get that three percentage up to at least league average tho.

theres really not any reason for him to take such difficult 3s when he can get anywhere on the court he wants

yeah there’s so many times where he takes a shot from 4 or 5 feet from behind the line when he’s already lost his defender beyond any hope

then again I feel like I read somewhere in the past couple years that NBA dudes don’t really lose too much accuracy taking deeper threes, but maybe I’m misremembering

i think its more an issue of being on balance a good state to shoot than distance seems like his range is real good

i wonder if some of it might be his insanely high usage no one really has the energy to drive every possession

if dallas can improve their roster some of that shd go away

I've never seen him do a catch-n-shoot. Shooting off dribble is hard! He does look like he's usually on balance and his form is good.

yeah he has the ball in his hands every play wld be interesting to see what he can do off the ball hes so crafty

was just thinking about this last night actually, the times he doesn’t bring the ball up he’s usually standing around 25 feet from the hoop waiting to take over if the play gets busted, and yeah he never catches and shoots it seems. I mean dallas has literally the best offense of all time so it’s working, but he def has a lot of stuff to add to his game, great time to be alive

theres gotta be no way his and dallas play can hold up like this for an entire season but obvs a step down wld still be silly good

was just thinking about this last night actually, the times he doesn’t bring the ball up he’s usually standing around 25 feet from the hoop waiting to take over if the play gets busted, and yeah he never catches and shoots it seems. I mean dallas has literally the best offense of all time so it’s working, but he def has a lot of stuff to add to his game, great time to be alive

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:17 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the harden special.

Deandre ayton has 13 free throw attempts in 10 games. 305 minutes.

doesn't he like, only shoot 15-footers?

makes sense considering hes a super athletic 7ft strongman

Don’t see how he can ever pan out with his general attitude about things

i will never forget his interview from when he got drafted and he just talked about how much work it was to play basketball.

lmao i feel him im def not cut out for the nba either

luckily im short unathletic and bad at basketball so i didnt have to worry about it

Case n point

pic.twitter.com/QWzYzpW5NI

— Kellan Olson (@KellanOlson) January 17, 2020

lol the pausing

It’s like they drafted Alex Len again

o shit lol

If only alex Len could shoot like Ayton

the weirdest thing is that at the time even the ostensibly smart draft analysts were like "well look you can't blame them for taking ayton over doncic" which never made sense to me and looks even stupider now

People really talked themselves into that line of thinking it was always dumb

Part of the logic was that they had talent on the wing and nothing inside but then they let TJ Warren walk for nothing

they actually gave away a pick to rid themselves of his good contract

I forgot that. Even weirder.

thinking maybe the suns arent a great org idk need more data

only thing they had going for them was training staff and they let the guru behind that go iirc

Ayton -- who apparently is awful but I don't watch Suns games! -- sure has nice stats since his return.

Ayton is this generation’s Rony Seikaly

I'll let my mom know #GreekGod

was watching some old clips and rony was briefly in background and i was all hey its rony seikaly

not someone i think of much

The Hawks won in San Antonio for the first time since 1997. That’s before six of the current hawk players had even been born

it was a horrifying game from the spurs perspective!!!

Huerter w the game winner

DeMar DeRozan last 13 games:

PTS | FG%
25p | 50.0%
30p | 85.7%
25p | 58.3%
36p | 61.1%
31p | 58.8%
25p | 73.3%
26p | 57.1%
30p | 52.0%
24p | 61.1%
29p | 81.3%
21p | 53.3%
26p | 90.9%
24p | 64.3%

The longest streak with 20 points and 50% shooting by a guard in NBA history. pic.twitter.com/wQoJRMToww

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 18, 2020

spurs: 6-7

dame 61*-10-7, 11-20 3pt, 16-16 ft

*franchise record

It was pretty.

Here’s some harden goodness from this season

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 pic.twitter.com/lZTEPOVr2a

— sam esfandiari (@samesfandiari) January 21, 2020

kind of amazing he’s still shooting 37% this year even with those stinkers

mavs blazers 43 combined threes, tied for most in nba history

Harden 33% FG last 9 games

is that bad

Sub optimal iirc

Kawhi Leonard games w/ more than 7 assists (regular season)...

First 449 career games: 0
Last 53 games: 6

First career triple-double tonight.

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) January 25, 2020

re harden basically brought his percentages down to his normal range. wonder if he realized that even if he averaged 40 for the season he wasnt gonna get the mvp over giannis

i love that this was kawhis first triple double

they were all everyones doing it and kawhi was like ok

RWB only one single 3pa in his last four games. love it

lol

Kawhi says that he found out about his triple double from Ty Lue. When asked what he would do with the game ball:

“I don’t know, probably take it home. Might shoot with it.”

— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) January 25, 2020

Harden playing too many minutes imo

Pls run him into the ground, Dan Tony.

34 years ago today, Manute Bol put up a crazy stat line 🖐 pic.twitter.com/QqQluwsNp6

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) January 25, 2020

whaa lol

Ok so I’m looking at the box score for the thunder-Timberwolves game and Steven Adams had 0/1/2 in 23 minutes and shabazz Napier had a triple double and the thunder won

Thunder w no gallo or Noel either. Adams is hobbled and sga has a bad shooting game and they still beat the wolves lol. I watched Lu Dort a few times out here at asu last season and I thought he was really bad. Can’t believe he’s getting run and producing in the pros already. Schroeder is 6th man of the year as of now.

wha

Eric Gordon tonight

50 points
6 rebounds
3 assists
2 steals
1 block
14/22 FG
6/11 3PT pic.twitter.com/Qq6ExlAQKS

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) January 28, 2020

No Russ or James might as well hoist

*van halen jump synth riff*
might as well
HOIST

Middleton 51/10/6

wtf everyone can just score 50 now

this feels like the 1980's nhl when all the all-time single season goals, ast, pts records are

He’s really close to 50/40/90

dame 36-10-11, first career triple double, dude is on a helluva heater

blazers becoming must see tv

trae double-double in the 1st quarter 12/10

r u watching on dvr

I haven’t watched a game in real time since I had a kid 3 years ago.

his final line was ridic 39-6-18

18 is a lot of assists that just doesn't happen much

Great game from Collins too

someone on twitter said their were 0 40-20ast games in bbref db that starts in the early 80s

that'd be a nutso usage rate for a game

he almost did it!

smallest guy on the court but a wisp of a man

Lol

hah

27-5-6 for a dude named Shake Milton playing for the 76ers. never heard of him

Hayward is seventh in the league in FG% on shots inside 3' (minimum 50 attempts). The six players ahead of him are all centers. The next ten players after him are all centers or power forwards. Then Luka, followed by five more centers.

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) January 31, 2020

some crazy lines tonight:

kyrie 54-5-5-1 on 19/23 fg
dame 48-9-10-2
whiteside 30-12-2-2-5
brow 37-15-6-1-5
harden and giannis doing their usual
jerami grant 10-4-2-2-7 and all 9 players that played for the nuggets scored at least 10 points

I’m gonna have to get a sick tat to memorialize this dame stretch

https://ca.nba.com/news/toronto-raptors-forward-serge-ibaka-becomes-first-player-in-nba-history-to-record-500-3-pointers-1500-blocks/10filgi89lmlb1ib6hr8hgl1t7

wonder who else is gonna do this. brook lopez is 150 blocks away.

myles turner will be halfway there by the end of this season

embiid and jjj probably wont get enough blocks

yeah, have to stay healthy and keep up a pretty good pace to get to 1500 blocks, though who knows how jjj’s career will turn out. brow will get there eventually as long as he keeps taking 3s

Does kat get enough blocks? If he has a long career he could do it and will probably be more 1500/1500

dame with another 51 pointer throw in 12 assists he’s hot folks

what the heck man

this is turning into an alltime heater

check out his three point splits since Jan 20th

thats pretty nuts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPyN4Z5U8AAZLyI?format=jpg&name=large

Wrote about Damian Lillard's historic streak: https://t.co/kBiK7NSgmI

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) February 2, 2020

dunno if anybody's peeped khris middleton's shot chart lately, but, holy shit pic.twitter.com/dSBkvUyr51

— J. Kyle Mann (@jkylemann) February 18, 2020

Overall: 50.1%/43.8%/90.2%

insane

someone tricked him into thinking hes playing the celtics every game

Dennis Smith Jr. is on pace to become the first player in NBA history to attempt more than 200 FG’s in a season and shoot:
below 35% from the floor,
below 30% from 3-point territory and,
below 50% from the free-throw line

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) February 19, 2020

yikes

damn lol

i know he's had some off court real life stuff this year, hope he can figure it out and get back to normal bad player level rather than this historically bad level

Knicks def not the right organization for him to be in right now.

Wth joe Johnson never did a 50 burger?

Trae Young's 50-point game is the first for an Atlanta Hawk since Shareef Abdur-Rahim in November 2001.

— Jeff Siegel (@jgsiegel) February 21, 2020

joe scored exactly 21 points every single game iirc

lol otm

Back to back 50+ for Beal

Bam 22-13-9-3-4

Ben McLemore still working on a perfect season w/ 25 games to go.https://t.co/g2N2aakZVz pic.twitter.com/0pot10t8qv

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) February 25, 2020

Kristaps Porzingis is the only player in NBA history with multiple games of 35+ points, 5+ made threes, and 5+ blocks.

— Tim Cato (@tim_cato) March 1, 2020

feel like he's settling into his role as like evolutionary channing frye or something... huge floor spacer who can also protect the rim. pretty much what most teams are looking for a in a center these days if you don't have one of the sui generis embiid/jokic types.

Caris LeVert had 14 points going into the fourth quarter. He finished with 51

— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) March 4, 2020

Terrence Ross

35-0-0-0-0

bogdanovic did the same thing this season

http://bkref.com/tiny/gArSG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESwT3obU0AAWZTV?format=jpg&name=medium

feel like he's settling into his role as like evolutionary channing frye or something... huge floor spacer who can also protect the rim. pretty much what most teams are looking for a in a center these days if you don't have one of the sui generis embiid/jokic types.

Has anyone else noticed that the Basketball Reference Play Index feature has gone behind a paywall? Sad day for those of us not quite dedicated enough to pony up $$$ so I can run random NBA stat searches while procrastinating at work...

damn that’s sad

After the Los Angeles Lakers' loss to the Houston Rockets, here's how all #LakeShow players have fared in TPA during the 2019-20 #NBA season. pic.twitter.com/PsdorWshNh

— NBA Math (@NBA_Math) August 7, 2020

could be a problem

lol good chart

luka 36-14-19

lebron 35 mins, +13
anthony davis 35 mins, -20

Lonzo Ball in the bubble:

5.6 PTS
5.3 REB
6.8 AST
26% FG
19% 3 PT

Pelicans are 2-4 in Orlando pic.twitter.com/YIP67frOjA

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 9, 2020

lonzo unball

lon no ball

big stats

Also, FREE THROW RECORD UPDATE:

The Suns shot 27-29 from the line today, raising their % on the season to 83.3%. That makes them (for now) the MOST EFFICIENT FT shooting team in NBA history, with 2 games to go.

'90 Celtics are now in 2nd place, at 83.19%.

— Sam Cooper (@scooperhoops) August 10, 2020

congrats to the phoenix suns

justin anderson 1-15 fg including 0-12 3p and somehow a +9
http://bkref.com/tiny/jjVdk

"Lillard is the only player in league history other than Wilt Chamberlain with three 60-plus point games in the same season."

heat been letting tyler herro play point guard for huge stretches of games lately w/ butler & dragic sitting and he's looked pretty awesome. had his first career 30 point game vs the thunder tonight ... his game is expanding, some of these finishes are really creative and he's had some good passes too. i still think his ideal role is as a dynamite bench scorer but i feel like he has perennial sixth man of the year potential. he'll also be a great crunch time player at least on offense bcuz you can't leave him open but he's already great at getting his shot off too when guys contest, and now he's adding some playmaking. he will have one of the nastiest step backs in the game sooner rather than later as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL0UfdrVwj0

hes doin stuff like this as a one and done rookie gotta think hes got bigger things ahead than sixth man

proud to see a ballislife white make it in the big leagues

between herro, pj and keldon, this kentucky class is good af

i was like who tf is keldon then i said to myself i bet hes on the spurs

https://i.imgur.com/YqDoOyp.png

BIG BODY

mod tools test post

i think Modtoolstes T'post is in the G League, no?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/pelicans-zion-williamson-did-not-record-a-block-or-steal-in-bubble/ar-BB17Uyrm

didnt seem like any of the pelicans were trying

this guys arms are freaky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIIFlL5zfQ

kid is legit. getting more confident on offense too. has has some really nice finishes on cuts this season.

booker-bridges-ayton is a nice a backbone

rubio and saric are nice complements to that

cam johnson who everyone hated them taking in the lottery cause hes 35 looks like hell be a solid player

yeah hes been great and a big part of their surge. oubre is hurt and cam has played the starting role perfectly. opens up the floor for everythign to work.

oubre might be bad iirc

Prob best cast as a 6th man but doubt he’d be willing to take that role. Lotta teams need wings so he should have suiters.

hollinger: While the Mavs can score, calling this the “best offense ever” isn’t quite true. They have the highest Offensive Efficiency mark in league annals since they began tracking turnovers, but the rising offensive tide of recent years lifts all boats. Relative to the league, this isn’t even the best Dallas offense ever. It’s not even close, actually. This season’s Mavs were 6.1 points better than the league average, which is nice but not historically amazing. The 2003-04 Steve Nash-Dirk Nowitzki Mavs, who smoked the league for a then-titillating 112.1 points per 100, were actually 9.2 points beyond the norm.

Interesting

bam +42 in the first two games of heat-pacers

someone on twitter asked the question who would you rather have bam or embiid and at first i laughed then i thought about it a bit..

yeah i think you could argue that you’re more likely to win a title with bam as your no 2 than embiid as your no 1. bam is certainly the more malleable player. and i feel like everyone would agree it would be a shock if bam’s career wasn’t considerably longer

otm to all points.

bingo. i feel like embiid in the right situation can still be great (san antonio)

ask that question again in 2021

CP -36 in 37 minutes

SGA +7
Schroe 0
Dort +4

he's really had no impact on the series whatsoever

CP3 sweeping the Rox and getting Dan Tony fired was #1 on my playoffs wishlist. Oh well, hopefully Dame is up for it.

why on earth would you want him fired

he's not coming back anyway so it's kind of a moot point.

is there anyone in the wings? and surely that might change if hou win it

haven't heard of any other candidates yet

cp3 might not be back with OKC either

Who’s gonna take on that contract? Maybe the year after next when it’s a 44m expiring but not this next season

even more so if he disappears these playoffs

why on earth would you want him fired

Because the Rockets play the ugliest basketball and I want them to implode so maybe I never have to see that offense again.

riiight

kind of weird that you're suggesting d'antoni has any say over what they run

remember kevin love

Thinking about what Tatum's per game targets are going to be next year and figured 25/8/4. Looked up 25/8/4 seasons for guys under 25 years old.

It's five guys who won an MVP in their career, a 3x scoring champ, Luka Doncic, Kevin Love, and Karl Towns.

— Ryan Bernardoni AC⚡️AB (@dangercart) September 28, 2020

seems good

The Unofficial NBA Ref Ball Database https://t.co/YuHI7bu7mx

Contains all the fouls and violations called by each referee between 2016 and 2020 (Regular Season + Playoffs)

— llewellyn jean (@owenlhjphillips) December 9, 2020

id be interested to see some analysis of ref stats but it needs to be more thought out than what ive seen elsewhere. im pretty sure refs follow a defined pattern as they move around the floor so the baseline refs will naturally focus more on defensive 3 seconds, crew chiefs probably call more techs etc

youd also assume that if a ref is known for calling a lot of say freedom of movement fouls then the other refs will naturally call fewer of them because they know the first ref can be relied on to make the call, which would make their individual counting stats look off but not lead to a worse outcome for the game. really this database needs advanced stats that adjusts for how each ref team performs

can we start at 20/21 thread?

we usually start new threads on opening day or after

fair enough

https://i.imgur.com/KLWtF6o.png

nu thread plz