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- Trae Young’s average distance on his 3-pt jumpers was 28.7 feet last night vs Houston. That’s the longest average 3-pt distance (min. 12 3-pt jumpers) for a player in a single game the last 6 seasons. Oh, btw, he was 8-12 from beyond the arc.
00:00 - The Lakers 34-97 FG (20-31 FT) performance in Game 1 against the Blazers had the worst "shooting luck" for a team in any game since the 2013-14 season, regular season or playoffs, scoring 46 fewer points than expected.
- Bojan Bogdanovic’s game-winning 3 tonight was the 3rd game-winning FG (5 seconds or less remaining) from 28+ feet this season. With just a 12.6% chance of going in, it had the lowest shot probability of any game-winner this season.
- Jrue Holiday has been the ball-handler defender on pick-and-rolls 1,846 times this season - 2nd-most in the NBA. On those chances, Holiday allows 0.84 Pts/chance, 2nd among the 48 other players who have defended at least 1,000 such chances.
- "No team in the league turns live-ball turnovers into points more often than OKC, and George and Westbrook rank No. 1 and No. 2 in that category, according to Second Spectrum data. They combine to log more than 10 points per game as a duo."
- Steph Curry extended his unprecedented run to begin the season to 7 straight games with at least 5 made 3-pointers. Given his shot selection from behind the arc we would expect the average NBA player to shoot 32.3% on those same 3s — Curry has shot 51.6%.
- There have been 13 players this season with at least 25 stepback 3PAs. Sacramento's @KevinHuerter stands above them all shooting a scorching 61.5%. #redvelvet
- Since transitioning to “small ball” after the trade deadline, the Rockets’ defense has seen a significant increase in its frequency of contesting shots. Before Feb 6, Houston contested 77.8% of shots, 29th in the league. Since, they’ve contested 82.3%, good for 5th in that span.
- Good eye! As a rookie, Trae rejected 3.29 on-ball screens per game, more than all but seven players last year. When he did reject, the screen was on his right 60.1% of the time, the 3rd-highest such rate among the 27 players who rejected at least 150 screens (Wade, LaVine).Stat I'd be looking up right now if I had Second Spectrum access: how frequently Trae Young rejects ball screens, especially with the screen to his right, compared with others in the league. By my count he's crossed over at least 3 times tonight and gotten free lanes every time.
- As noted by @ryenarussillo, nobody has been better this season at converting tough shots than Kevin Durant. Durant has posted a +13.46 qSI (quantified Shooter Impact) this season, leading all players with 800+ attempts.🎯
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- Replying to @SecondSpectrum(Shooting luck is measured as the difference between the points a team actually scored and the points we'd expect it to score given the quality of shots, number of free throws, and the players who took those shots.)
- Here’s a detailed breakdown of James Harden’s scoring the last 5 games: Pts Free Throw 79 Stepback 3 69 Layup 68 Pullup 3 21 Mid-range 10 Dunk 8 Floater 6James Harden has scored 261 points over his last 5 games, the 2nd-most by any player in a 5-game span over the last 50 seasons behind only Kobe Bryant in March of 2007, per @EliasSports. None of those points have been assisted.
