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CBS RomoVision won the Emmy for Best Technical Achievement at last night's
@SportsEmmys
!
A huge thank you to our partners at
@CBSSports
for bringing our tracking data to life in the NFL 🏈🏆
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Trae Young’s average distance on his 3-pt jumpers was 28.7 feet last night vs Houston. That’s the longest average 3-pt distance (min. 12 3-pt jumpers) for a player in a single game the last 6 seasons.
Oh, btw, he was 8-12 from beyond the arc.
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The Lakers 34-97 FG (20-31 FT) performance in Game 1 against the Blazers had the worst "shooting luck" for a team in any game since the 2013-14 season, regular season or playoffs, scoring 46 fewer points than expected.
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Bojan Bogdanovic’s game-winning 3 tonight was the 3rd game-winning FG (5 seconds or less remaining) from 28+ feet this season. With just a 12.6% chance of going in, it had the lowest shot probability of any game-winner this season.
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Jrue Holiday has been the ball-handler defender on pick-and-rolls 1,846 times this season - 2nd-most in the NBA. On those chances, Holiday allows 0.84 Pts/chance, 2nd among the 48 other players who have defended at least 1,000 such chances.
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"No team in the league turns live-ball turnovers into points more often than OKC, and George and Westbrook rank No. 1 and No. 2 in that category, according to Second Spectrum data. They combine to log more than 10 points per game as a duo."
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Steph Curry extended his unprecedented run to begin the season to 7 straight games with at least 5 made 3-pointers. Given his shot selection from behind the arc we would expect the average NBA player to shoot 32.3% on those same 3s — Curry has shot 51.6%.
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There have been 13 players this season with at least 25 stepback 3PAs.
Sacramento's
@KevinHuerter
stands above them all shooting a scorching 61.5%.
#redvelvet
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Since transitioning to “small ball” after the trade deadline, the Rockets’ defense has seen a significant increase in its frequency of contesting shots.
Before Feb 6, Houston contested 77.8% of shots, 29th in the league. Since, they’ve contested 82.3%, good for 5th in that span.
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Good eye! As a rookie, Trae rejected 3.29 on-ball screens per game, more than all but seven players last year. When he did reject, the screen was on his right 60.1% of the time, the 3rd-highest such rate among the 27 players who rejected at least 150 screens (Wade, LaVine).
Stat I'd be looking up right now if I had Second Spectrum access: how frequently Trae Young rejects ball screens, especially with the screen to his right, compared with others in the league. By my count he's crossed over at least 3 times tonight and gotten free lanes every time.
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As noted by
@ryenarussillo
, nobody has been better this season at converting tough shots than Kevin Durant.
Durant has posted a +13.46 qSI (quantified Shooter Impact) this season, leading all players with 800+ attempts.🎯
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Excited to partner w/
@NBA
to bring our technology for machine understanding of sports to all NBA teams and fans.
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(Shooting luck is measured as the difference between the points a team actually scored and the points we'd expect it to score given the quality of shots, number of free throws, and the players who took those shots.)
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Here’s a detailed breakdown of James Harden’s scoring the last 5 games:
Pts
Free Throw 79
Stepback 3 69
Layup 68
Pullup 3 21
Mid-range 10
Dunk 8
Floater 6
James Harden has scored 261 points over his last 5 games, the 2nd-most by any player in a 5-game span over the last 50 seasons behind only Kobe Bryant in March of 2007, per
@EliasSports
.
None of those points have been assisted.
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Deandre Ayton is an elite passer off the roll.
In '21-22, Ayton averaged 1.74 points per direct pick passing to a teammate after receiving the ball off the roll.
That's the highest single season mark in the tracking era for any screener.
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Mavs rookie Luka Dončić has made 16 stepback threes this season — more than the entire 2018 rookie class combined (13).
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Check out our TED talk. The math behind basketball's wildest moves
http://t.co/8FiYlelqRW
http://t.co/DVuuRzAVHi
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“We are proud to partner with Steve and the L.A. Clippers to bring this new technology to life” -
@RajivMaheswaran
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Hey JVG, since you asked... LeBron shot 64.8% on contested driving layups this season. That was tops in the league. So 63%? Pretty good.
#takethatfordata
@ESPNNBA
@ESPNStatsInfo
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Damian Lillard is
#1
in the league in averaging a 33.9% blowby rate on his drives to the basket.
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A defender closing out gives the offense an opportunity to attack, either via catch&shoot or off the dribble.
The
@Bucks
@Giannis_An34
is the most effective defender at negating that advantage, forcing the ballhandler to pass it without setting up another shot 35.7% of the time.
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The Rockets defense switched on a league-high 2,472 picks this season. They switched on 44% of all their picks defended — the largest percentage in the NBA.
Last season, the Rockets defense switched on 20.7% of all picks.
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The
@sixers
@BenSimmons25
has cut off a UCLA screen 96 times this season. That’s more than 25 other TEAMS in the NBA.
When Simmons gets the ball in those scenarios the team averages 1.04 pts/chance, compared to 0.79 pts/chance when he doesn’t get the ball — a 31.6% increase!
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In fact we do. Stephen Curry, as the ballhandler, was 31st in picks slipped by the screener during the regular season — 141. Curry also was 32nd in % of picks slipped with 11%.
Russell Westbrook (404) and Kyrie Irving (18%) were tops in the league respectively (min 500 picks).
Does Second Spectrum track what player triggers the most slipped screens? I'd guess it's Curry by a mile?
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Jimmy Butler generated 75 points in Game 3; 40 of his own and 35 with his passes. It’s the third-most points generated in a single game this postseason, trailing only Luka Doncic (77) and Donovan Mitchell (76).
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DeAndre Ayton's last second finish continued a trend for Phoenix, as Monty Williams and the Suns have been no strangers to success after timeouts.
Phoenix leads the league this season with 1.253 points/possession after timeouts.
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Jerami Grant allowed the fewest points per direct isolation as the ballhandler defender in the past 3 seasons.
Portland in the same span has allowed the 2nd highest qSQ and the 4th highest pts/direct iso.
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Just how difficult were the 9 jumpers LeBron James made in the 2nd half tonight? The average shooter, taking those same shots, would have an expected FG% of 37.1%.
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Just how difficult was James Harden’s game-winning three last night? Given the location, and both Draymond Green and Klay Thompson contesting, we’d expect the average NBA player to make that 26% of the time.
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Luka Doncic has shot 40.2% on floaters this season on an 8th-most 132 attempts. 4 of the top 7 players above him in total floaters shoot 45% or better (M. Conley, C. McCollum, D. Russell, L. Williams).
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2S Presents: 2019-20 NBA Dunk Belt (thread)
Rules:
Dunk on the belt holder to get the belt
Posterize = knockout
Try to get out of the way = judges' decision
You block a dunk attempt = title defense
We begin with the first poster dunk of this season...
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In the bubble, Luka Doncic is averaging 34.2 drives per game. That's 3.4 more than the Blazers average *as a team*
Luka has been driving at will all year. His 20.9 season average is the most for any player since 2013.
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@JacobEGoldstein
@NBA
We do. During the regular season, James Harden led the league with 39% of his drives being blow bys.
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Robert Covington allowed only 0.87 points per direct pick — tied for 1st (with Jrue Holiday) among the 56 ballhandler defenders to guard at least 900 picks during the regular season.
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Watch a classic NBA moment through a different lens:
“
@kingjames
catches, puts up a 3 - won’t go. Rebound
@chrisbosh
, back out to Allen. His 3-pointer - BANG! Tie game with 5 seconds remaining!”
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Check out these highlights from
@SloanSportsConf
of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro talking Second Spectrum technology
#SSAC19
(Source: 42 Analytics | Clippers/NBA)
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"Harden is averaging a whopping 17.7 isos per game, over 7 more than No. 2 DeMar DeRozan, per Second Spectrum tracking. … So far this season, an average Harden iso yields 1.16 points, which is a staggering value for any half-court action."
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We have entered THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
Check out
#ArenaOfHeroes
on ESPN2 right now to see basketball like never before in our newest augmented stream with
@marvelstudios
+
@espn
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Been busy crunching numbers, so just seeing this. Honored to be your favorite geeks
@chiney
! But we've got moves too - open invite to come hoop with us Tuesday nights in DTLA 💨
People talk about how Steph Curry 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙨… but it all starts with how he 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨! Here’s the number you need to know:
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LeBron James is shooting 76.3% on shots near the rim this postseason, on pace to be the highest such percentage in the past 5 postseasons.
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Tonight’s the night! Catch our technology on display during
@ESPN
’s Full Court Press presentation of the Bucks-Lakers game. Watch it on ESPN3 at 7:30pm PT, or stream it on the ESPN app.
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Entering tonight, Ben Simmons had a league-high 281 potential assists in transition. The Sixers have shot a remarkable 78.5% eFG off Simmons’ transition passes giving him a league-high 180 transition assists.
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“Everyone’s fighting for your attention to be part of their content universe. The NBA. Beyoncé. Fortnite. And when everyone can access everything, you need to bring better stuff. This is the better stuff.”
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Derrick Rose scored 37 of his career-high 50 points out of pick-and-roll actions tonight against the Jazz. The former MVP was the ballhandler in 67 on-ball picks - the high for ANY player this season.
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The
@sixers
@JoelEmbiid
is the most imposing post presence in the NBA, he posts up a league-high 23.2 times per 100 possessions and generates 1.06 Pts/direct post (league median 0.93).
Defenders resort to fouling Embiid 17% of the time he posts up, most of players w/100 posts.
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Feet set, hands ready, and Seth Curry is automatic. Curry has converted 81% of his standstill catch-and-shoot threes this season.
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We are delighted to partner with organizations like the Premier League and Stats Perform to bring state-of-the-art technology to the highest levels of football!
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The numbers back it up. Harden is 4th in the NBA with 1.05 points/direct pick, but ups his efficiency to an insane 1.33 points/direct pick when a big switches onto him during a pick-and-roll — an extra 28 points per 100 direct picks.
@SportsCenter
@ESPN
@NBA
@HoustonRockets
What does James Harden see when a big switches onto him? 🐔
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"More than two-thirds of his isos end with him taking a shot, and his 1.34 points per possession on those plays is a better mark than all but two NBA offenses this season, per Second Spectrum data."
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The
@cavs
@KingJames
leads the NBA with 85 skip passes that lead to a 3-point shot. The difference between James and 2nd (Ricky Rubio, 55) is the same difference between Rubio and 13th (Westbrook, 24).
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Last night, LeBron James made his 6th 3-pointer from 30+ feet this season. Before this season, LeBron had made 15 such threes since 2013.
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This season marks our first as the advanced tracking provider for
@MLS
. Check out the league’s Guide to Soccer Analytics to find out how new metrics and data visualizations come to life on the field:
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Kevin Durant is the best shotmaker in the tracking data era.
If the average NBA shooter were to take Kevin Durant’s shots since 2013-14, against the same defense, his expected eFG would be 45.6%.
Durant’s eFG on those shots? 56.9%. That +11.3 difference leads the league.
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Our
@TEDTalks
has reached over 1M views! If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to check it out:
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LeBron James' buzzer-beater was just the 3rd time all season (regular season and playoffs combined) that he’s made a floating bank shot from the left wing.
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"His [James Harden] isos are among the most effective half-court actions ... Last year, Houston’s offense ranked third in the league by averaging 1.01 points per non-transition chance. But Harden’s isos yielded 1.11 per chance, per Second Spectrum data."
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Nets All-Star D’Angelo Russell last night had an 80% eFG in the 4th quarter on his 15 shots. That’s the highest eFG of any player in any 4th quarter the past 5 seasons (min 15 shots).
Given his shot selection, we’d expect the average NBA player to have a 49.9% eFG.
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from
@MicahAdams13
and
@espn
: "The 7-footer [Joel Embiid] brought the ball up about once per game in 2017-18, and on those plays, with Embiid as the point-center, the Sixers averaged an incredible 1.21 points per possession, per Second Spectrum."
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Great infographic from
@tomhaberstroh
using some of our insights to highlight the Year of Steph Curry
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On matchups where LeBron James is guarded by Lance Stephenson this postseason, James is averaging 16 free throw attempts per 100 possessions, the highest frequency of all players with at least 80 matchups.
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The
@utahjazz
this season have set up shooters with the 2nd-highest shot quality. Utah has a 56.1% qSQ on shots within one dribble of a pass — just behind the Rockets (56.4%).
We all know a bad shot attempt when we see one. But using our qSQ metric, we can quantify the quality of every shot. Incorporating factors like shot type, shot location and defender distance, quantified shot quality (qSQ) augments intuition with a number.
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Celebrating the completion of our first regular season as the official optical tracking provider of the NBA!
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Our Shanghai office celebrating the completion of our first regular season as the official optical tracking provider of the NBA!
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via
@ZachLowe_NBA
and
@espn
: "Golden State set 40 ball screens for Curry in Game 2, their fourth-highest single-game total since Durant joined, per Second Spectrum data."
Houston spent all season planning to defend Golden State. The Cavs are kinda trying to figure it out on the fly:
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Hard at work tracking the
#NBACombine
both on-site in Chicago and from our Los Angeles office!
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The
@chicagobulls
@MarkkanenLauri
3pt sweet spot is on the left wing. He has a +9.3 qSI (above expected eFG) — his highest from any spot behind the arc by more than 7 percentage points.
The 7'0" rookie has taken a team-high 24.2% of CHI shots from that area this season.
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The
@trailblazers
@Dame_Lillard
leads the NBA with 153 shots taken directly after an on-ball pick, well ahead of the next-closest player (Kemba Walker, 108). Lillard has a remarkable +20 qSI (eFG above expectation) on such shots.
The league median? -1.2 qSI
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Lauri Markkanen is shooting 40.7% on contested threes this season, 3rd-best in the league.
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The
@celtics
@jaytatum0
has the 3rd-highest FG% for catch-and-shoot 3s — trailing only Kevin Durant (51%) and Buddy Hield (47.5%). The Celtics rookie is shooting 47% on these shots while an average shooter would be expected to shoot 38%.
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Zion Williamson shot 13 for 13 and drew 3 shooting fouls Thursday vs Syracuse. Of his 13 FGA, he took 1 jump shot, 1 hook shot, with the rest either dunks or layups. His average shot distance: 4.5 feet.
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Trae Young has taken better shots at the basket in every game this young season.
From a 45.1% shot quality in game 1, to a 47.6% qSQ in game 2, all leading up to tonight’s 35 point outburst on a 52.4% — where he outperformed expectations shooting 69.6% eFG on 23 shots.
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We all know a bad shot attempt when we see one. But using our qSQ metric, we can quantify the quality of every shot. Incorporating factors like shot type, shot location and defender distance, quantified shot quality (qSQ) augments intuition with a number.
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"The Cavs have scored almost 1.1 points per possession when a Love screen for Korver leads directly to a shot, and almost 1.3 points per possession -- a gigantic number near the top of the overall leaderboard -- when Korver screens for Love, per Second Spectrum tracking data."
Inside the weird, devastating, completely off-ball two-man game that helped revive Cleveland's offense and give the Cavs an option beyond, "LeBron, please score":
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The
@LAClippers
have been stellar this year getting into the paint and dumping the ball to finishers. They lead the league with a 74.5% FG on shots from interior passes (league median 67%).
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Delighted to have our CEO
@RajivMaheswaran
share a panel today with such great minds
@samhinkie
@tomhaberstroh
and
@BenAlamarESPN
discussing advanced analytics in sports!
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Tonight on
@FOXSports
, watch the MLS All-Star Game like never before with 2 new augmented streams:
DataCast, featuring our live player tracking, player and shot speeds
and HypeMode, a supercharged feed full of fire trails and high-powered blasts on goal
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There were 30 possessions of 11 passes or more this season.
Last night's sequence was the 3rd such possession for the Suns. Atlanta has the most this year, with 4.
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Thanks
@SethPartnow
for introducing more of the world to advanced shooting metrics. Check out a breakdown of our qSI and qSQ metrics
@TheAthletic
What’s a good shot in basketball?
It’s a complicated question, so
@SethPartnow
is answering with a series of articles.
First, an introduction and an explanation of “expected” results ⤵️
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The
@sixers
@BenSimmons25
averages a league-high 78.6 passes per game — 13 passes/gm higher than 2nd and double the league median (33.6, min. 1000).
The quantified Shot Quality (qSQ) off of those passes is 53.3%, just 3 percentage points away from the league-best (Harden, 56.5).
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The
@celtics
Al Horford is enjoying a career year from behind the arc, connecting on 43% of his 3-point attempts.
In fact, 97% of Horford’s 3-point attempts have been “catch-and-shoot,” helping him to a league-best 58.3% qSQ (quantified Shot Quality) on 3s.
We all know a bad shot attempt when we see one. But using our qSQ metric, we can quantify the quality of every shot. Incorporating factors like shot type, shot location and defender distance, quantified shot quality (qSQ) augments intuition with a number.
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Of the last 16 games in which a defense played zone on more than 30 chances, 10 belong to the Miami HEAT.
In those games, Miami’s defensive efficiency improves by 17% in the zone allowing 0.86 points per chance as opposed to 1.01 in man to man.
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Our team members in the LA office are ready for the start of our second season as the Official Tracking and Analytics Partner of the NBA!
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According to Second Spectrum, there’s been a potential assist on 57.3 percent of Dallas’s non-Dončić shots; for context, the Phoenix Suns are the team with the NBA’s highest rate of potential assists per shot this season, at 57.0 percent.
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The numbers back it up. Jeff Teague leads the league this season with 398 post entries. Jarrett Jack is a distant 2nd with 260. 54% of Teague’s post entries turn into direct shots.
Maybe the numbers don't back it up, but it feels like Teague's entry post passing has improved a lot lately.
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The
@celtics
@KyrieIrving
cuts off 21.2 offball screens/gm the 11th most in the league.
When Kyrie shoots off those screens, he's averaging 1.13 pts per — the 3rd most efficient mark of the top 15 offball cutters, over 9% more effective than the league median (1.01).
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Ben Simmons generated 67 points for Sixers today, a season high for him. And he did so extremely efficiently, averaging 1.43 points per touch where he shot, passed to a shooter, got fouled, or turned it over.
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The
@LAClippers
'
@teamlou23
leads the league with 64.5% eFG on pull-up 3s this season, out of the 19 players who have taken at least 50 (median 52.2%).
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Excited to be back at the
@MIT
career fair! Come say hi to a few of our great alumni at booth 725!
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“This [CourtVision] is fundamentally how everyone is going to watch sports.”
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The world says hackathon, we say experiments week! Proud to have members from our Second Spectrum offices around the world come together to work on cool projects and promote ingenuity across all our teams!
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Allowing 0.864 pts/possession this season, the Jayson Tatum / Daniel Theis pick and roll defense is the best combo in the NBA.
When Tatum goes over the pick and Theis plays soft (which at 33% of the time is the most common of PnR defenses league wide) that number lowers to 0.676
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The Economist recently visited our offices to get an inside look at how the power of data continues to transform the NBA.
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via
@espn
: “[Kyrie] Irving shot 55 percent from the field on plays on which he took at least 10 dribbles, best in the NBA among the 31 players with 100 such shots, according to Second Spectrum data.”
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@KevinOConnorNBA
@DoeLurker
Back in 2014, LaMarcus Aldridge had a game with 1.8 pts/post on 20 post-ups.
And last season, Giannis and Jokic each had games with 1.8 pts/post, on 14 and 16 post-ups, respectively.
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