NBA Stats Galore: Josh Smith's Dunk Rate and 30-Footers

by Jason Walker on Feb 15, 2012 2:00 PM EST

Woe be unto all those NBA stat heads that want to crucnh offensive statistics in every possible situation. Woe because today, February 15th, Basketball-Reference released Play Index + which, well, let's let them tell us what it is:

There are obviously an unlimited number of things we can do with the data - and we plan on adding even more features in the future - but for the time being the four main tools are:

Event Finder
Search through millions of events to find all field goals for a team, all steals for a player, and much, much more.
Lineup Finder
Search through thousands of 5-man lineups to find the best offensive units, the best defensive units, the best overall units, and much, much more.
Shot Finder
Search through millions of shots to find the most prolific dunkers, the best clutch shooters, and much, much more.
Shooting Splits & Shot Charts
Examine a wide variety of shooting splits and shot charts for every player from the 2000-01 season forward.

Wow. A quick jog through some of the scenarios, Hawks-related finds that Josh Smith's dunk attempts per game are down this season (1.43 dunk attempts/game) from last year (1.75 dpg) and the year before (2.09 dpg).

Or you can look at which Hawks have hit shots in the last minute of the game to tie or take the lead. Note: The guy who has made the most isn't the one recently labled clutch on this site.

How many places can you see that Joe Johnson has gone 2-13 on shots 27 feet out and longer? And answer the question, who has made the most 27+ footers on this team this season. Hint: It's the same game who has hit the most 30+ footers, too.

There is obviously much more meaningful data to cull from this fantastic toy, so allow me to pose this Exit Question: What did you find from running this toy? Or, alternate question: Do you care?

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If Blake Griffin and Josh Smith changed teams would the offensive schemes their coaches use change as well.

If LD ran the same type of PnR and backdoors for JJ that he runs now. And we had Blake Griffin, instead of Josh, LD would be fired.

Clippers have pretty much run the same play, all game, for 2 years. Ball handler doesnt matter, clearout for Foye and Griffin, clearout for Mo Williams and Griffin, clear out for Paul and Griffin. Lets see how many lobs we can get.
All Game.

Us? Zaza and Josh Smith top of the key and lets see how many shooters they can find off screens.

The weird thing is that even veteran shooters at the wing run it with their PGs. Deng is slow. Kind of has clown feet and is not fleet footed. He cant free himself so he runs PnR with Rose at times.

Celtics will clear out and Pierce will pick and seal off for a switch.

I havent watched the whole game but Kobe ran it last game and rolled, Vlad came to help and ended up with an assist.
I’ve seen Teague(!) set the same play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coh7JdWtFos

Yet every time we run PnR with Smith its “6 man game”. 3 on 3 on one side instead of 2 on 2. PFs run it, SFs and SGs run it. Yet we never do it right with Smith. Someone please ask LD what is going on with that play.

sf Josh Smith + PF Jon Leuer/PF Ryan Anderson/Kevin Love/Dirk Nowitzki > tweener Josh Smith + tweener Marvin Williams
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* {#40 Pick Perimeter F Jon Leuer is better than Marvin Williams and Hinrich cost us the pick}

by PointGuardSlim on Feb 15, 2012 2:41 PM EST reply actions