With Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid on the court together in the regular season, the Sixers outscored opponents by 16 points per 100 possessions played (98th percentile).
In the playoffs?
+19.2 per 100 possessions (99th percentile).
Cleaning The Glass
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Cleaning The Glass
@cleantheglass
Advanced NBA stats that are more accurate & easier to use.
By @bencfalk, former VP of Basketball Strategy with 76ers & Analytics Manager with Blazers.
Joined July 2016
- New article: How Sachin Gupta, the Timberwolves new head of basketball operations, taught me that leadership doesn’t always look like we think it does.
- How, in an NBA obsessed with long range looks, does the best defense give up the most threes? The answer lies in a subtle but very important change over the last few years of NBA basketball.
- Random stat I just stumbled upon: In his 10 NBA seasons, not once have Jrue Holiday’s teams been worse with him on the court vs. off. That is quite the track record of winning basketball. (Full stats here: cleaningtheglass.com/stats/player/1…)
- How Robert Covington went from waiver-wire castoff to a solid-gold defender.
- The San Antonio Spurs rank 5th on defense so far this year -- after ranking 23rd and 20th the last two seasons, their worst rankings since Popovich's first year as head coach.
- In the last two weeks, the Utah Jazz are 7-0 with the #1 ranked defense, the #2 ranked offense, and have outperformed the pregame spread by an average of 10 points.
- The Simmons/Embiid/Redick trio's point differential was incredible. 2017-18: +17.2 on almost 1,900 possessions (99th percentile) 2018-19: +15.2 on almost 2,400 possessions (99th percentile)
Replying to @SixersAdamOn surrounding Ben/Joel with shooting: “If you go back, it’s completely insane how good these Ben and Joel lineups were.” - Want to watch basketball like a coach or scout? Here's how I learned. [Free]
- The Blazers just finished up a 6 game road trip where they went 5-1. Their stats were eye-popping. They had (by far) the league's best offense over that time, along with the #10 defense. It wasn't just a matter of easy games: they had the #1 spread differential as well.
- Since March 1st, Robert Covington has made 49% of his 112 threes and is up to 40% on the year from behind the arc after a chilly start.
- Of all the lineups with at least 100 possessions played so far this year, the best differential belongs to a lineup from...the Orlando Magic? cleaningtheglass.com/stats/lineups
- When Victor Oladipo picked up two fouls in the first minute of Game 2, it raised a common question: what is the right way for coaches to manage foul trouble? cleaningtheglass.com/the-trouble-wi…
- Flipping the Switch What we can learn from how the Warriors attack switches and what it might mean for the Finals.
