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Jan 23, 2024 06:00PM MT
Smoothie King Center, 1501 Dave Dixon Dr, New Orleans, LA 70113
Jan 23, 2024 06:00PM MT
Everybody has someone scoring 30 points on them per gamePelicans are allowing opponent guards to score a bunch. Their last 4 games
Booker - 52pts
Irving-42 / 33
Hardaway-41/24
Lamelo-29
Rozier-25
Revenge game for sexton and jc
Assists are a result of good decissionmaking. Two of the best ways to score in the NBA is to get the ball to a big in the dunker spot, and to get an open C&S corner 3.It's less about getting assists for me and just moving the ball and running an actual offense that keeps the team involved. If guys are just running iso over and over the rest of the team just stands there. It kills it for the whole team and makes it easier to defend.
Assists will come when you play good team basketball. But you can get assists and still dominate the ball leaving your team to stand around. Dribbling for most of the shot clock and then getting doubled and kicking it isnt great offense usually, even if it generates some assists. When guys dont get the ball and move they tend to get cold on offense and hustle less on the other side of the court. Plus you are not wearing down the other team with movement and passing.Assists are a result of good decissionmaking. Two of the best ways to score in the NBA is to get the ball to a big in the dunker spot, and to get an open C&S corner 3.
Both of those buckets are almost always assisted and for dunks if you get the ball there it becomes a bucket 75-80% of the time, so those shots generate a lot of assists for whoever can make those passes.
If you dont generate assists as a player or as a team, that means you are usually settling for lesser shots.
Assists are a result of good decissionmaking. Two of the best ways to score in the NBA is to get the ball to a big in the dunker spot, and to get an open C&S corner 3.
Both of those buckets are almost always assisted and for dunks if you get the ball there it becomes a bucket 75-80% of the time, so those shots generate a lot of assists for whoever can make those passes.
If you dont generate assists as a player or as a team, that means you are usually settling for lesser shots.
Interestingly assists don't lead to better team offense, there is actually no correlation:
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I'm not sure how to look up, but would be interested to find the League wide FG% for unassisted vs assisted FG%. I'm pretty sure there is a big difference because there is a much higher ratio of assists to potential assists than what you would expect based on league wide FG%, but maybe I just don't understand how that stat is calculated.
I think your first statement is pretty dramatic based on those stats.Interestingly assists don't lead to better team offense, there is actually no correlation:
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I'm not sure how to look up, but would be interested to find the League wide FG% for unassisted vs assisted FG%. I'm pretty sure there is a big difference because there is a much higher ratio of assists to potential assists than what you would expect based on league wide FG%, but maybe I just don't understand how that stat is calculated.
What is the formula for team assist percentage?OK, I think I figured out a way to get what I was looking for. I averaged the FG% for all of the teams assisted vs unassisted and there is a huge difference. The average FG% for an assisted FG is 62.7%. The average FG% for an unassisted FG is 37.3%. So something isn't adding up to me for why AST% isn't correlating better with OFFRTG? I made the same plot for AST% vs FG% EFG% and it was similarly uncorrelated.
I think you are on a very interesting topic though. Im interested on what you discover with this.OK, I think I figured out a way to get what I was looking for. I averaged the FG% for all of the teams assisted vs unassisted and there is a huge difference. The average FG% for an assisted FG is 62.7%. The average FG% for an unassisted FG is 37.3%. So something isn't adding up to me for why AST% isn't correlating better with OFFRTG? I made the same plot for AST% vs FG% EFG% and it was similarly uncorrelated.
Its simply the quantity of assisted shots divided by all shots.What is the formula for team assist percentage?
That's kind of what I thought - but if that's the case, how would unassisted FG makes lower its value?Its simply the quantity of assisted shots divided by all shots.
1/1 assisted buckets turns into 1/2 by adding an unassisted one. Percent goes from 100% to 50%.That's kind of what I thought - but if that's the case, how would unassisted FG makes lower its value?
That'd just be for unassisted attempts though, regardless of make or miss.1/1 assisted buckets turns into 1/2 by adding an unassisted one. Percent goes from 100% to 50%.
I think your first statement is pretty dramatic based on those stats.
AST% is not a metric but a share, which means it doesnt measure quantity or effectiveness and is affected by something you don't want to measure (making an unassisted bucket lowers its value, despite having no effect on actual assist metrics).
You could equally say based on that that scoring a lot of unassisted buckets doesnt affect your offense, as correlation (or non-correlation) measured with a share can always be reversed with the negative version (UAST%) of that share.
Btw sorry if my math english sucks lol.