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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
Weekly Stats Recap
This week, thanks to the suggestion of David Vertsberger (@_Verts), I decided to take a look at the top assist men on each team and how they contributed to each game this week in terms of percentage of total points scored (PS%) and percentage of total assists handed out (A%). I constructed a spread sheet that detailed the top dime dropper on each roster along with the PS% and A% for that player entering … Continue reading
Fridays With Fenrich: A Revolutionary Spirit
Fridays With Fenrich is a weekly feature here at Hickory-High, the aggregation of an extended, week-long email conversation on a single basketball theme, between myself and Kris Fenrich of Dancing With Noah. This week’s is more of a brief fireside chat. Ian: I’ve been wanting to talk about James Harden for weeks but haven’t found what felt like an authentic entry point. Last week I read this wonderful post about Harden’s defense, by Michael Pina of Red94. What caught me was not Pina’s … Continue reading
Evaluating Team Shot Selection
A few weeks ago I shared a new metric I had been working on called Expected Points Per Shot (XPPS). The idea was to create a metric that would allow the objective comparison and evaluation of the quality of a player or team’s shot selection. When I first shared XPPS we just looked at the numbers for individual players. The visualization with player data is now a permanent feature here, one that I’ll keep updated … Continue reading
Fridays With Fenrich: The Greatest Spurs Ever Played
Fridays With Fenrich is a new weekly feature here, the aggregation of an extended, week-long email conversation on a single basketball theme, between myself and Kris Fenrich of Dancing With Noah. Ian – I was on Daily Dime duty for the Mavericks and Kings Monday night and sadly had to follow the overtime barnburner between the Spurs and Rockets through my Twitter feed. As the Spurs were putting the finishing touches on their win, … 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: Southwest Division
Exhibition games have begun and the regular season is fast approaching. The staff here at Hickory-High is previewing the entire league, taking a stab at answering the big questions, division by division. We’ve already looked at the Northwest, the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Central. Today we’re talking Spurs, Mavericks, Rockets and Hornets in the NBA’s Southwest Division. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. What is the most intriguing storyline in the Southwest Division? Ian Levy - @HickoryHigh - Reshuffling the deck in … Continue reading
San Antonio and Oklahoma City: Game 4 Video Playbook
Kevin Durant scored 18 in the 4th quarter of Game 4. Jordan Kahn breaks down all the different failed defensive looks the San Antonio Spurs used to try and slow him down. Continue reading
Roster Report: Thunder and Spurs
A position-by-position breakdown of the Spurs and Thunder matchup in the Western Conference Finals. Continue reading
