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Shot Selection Round-Up: Part 1
Shot selection and specifically shot locations have become a larger and larger part of the basketball conversation. It’s a topic of great personal interest to me and I’ve written quite a bit about it this season. To add an easily comparably quantitative element to the conversation, I also developed Expected Points Per Shot (XPPS). This metric is based on the expected value of shots from different locations and boils the quality of a player’s … Continue reading
Interview with Herb Magee
I recently talked with a very special man in the basketball world – 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee known as the “shot doctor,” Philadelphia University Mens basketball coach Herb Magee. Magee is the winningest coach in college basketball with 941, even more than Coach K. Recently he took some time of his day to talk to me about what he thinks about some shooters in the NBA, and what him and Evan Turner did … Continue reading
Weekly Stats Recap
This week I took a look at which statistic had a greater impact on a game’s outcome, transition points or points in the paint. I charted the fast break points and interior points for each of the 49 games this week and broke them into two separate groups: winning and losing teams. I then divided the totals of the losing teams by the number of points scored to determine what percentage of points were … Continue reading
The Previews Of The Roundtable: Atlantic Division
NBA basketball is going to be here before you know it and the staff of Hickory-High is licking their chops. This is the second installment of our “Previews Of The Roundtable” series where we’ll take you division by division, through some of the things we’re most looking forward to. Monday we looked at the NBA’s Northwest Division. Today we’re continuing with Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn and Toronto in the NBA’s Atlantic Division. ________________________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading
Making Change
Last week, I laid out a theoretical experiment at Hardwood Paroxysm for the basketball laboratory of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. Prompted by Wade’s somewhat bizarre assessment of his own jumpshot, I put some numeric value to what both he and James accomplish in the paint compared to what they accomplish from the outside. Both players pair incredibly efficient finishing at the basket with a lengthy history of shaky outside shooting, an assessment that was … Continue reading
Boston and Philadelphia: Game 2 Video Playbook
Breaking down tape of the defensive adjustments from the Sixers that stopped Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen down the stretch. Continue reading
Last Night’s Numbers – 5/14/12
Catching up with some of the weekend’s Most Valuable Players. Continue reading
Chicago and Philadelphia: Game 6 Video Playbook
A video look at how the Sixers were able to close out the Bulls in Game Six. Continue reading
Last Night’s Numbers – 5/7/12
A giant edition of Last Night’s Numbers, breaking down stats for all of this weekend’s action. Continue reading
Chicago and Philadelphia: Game 3 & 4 Video Playbook
Without Derrick Rose the Bulls have been forced to rely on C.J. Watson and John Lucas at point guard. Jordan Kahn looks at how the 76ers took advantage of those two in Games 3 and 4. Continue reading
