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Quantified Shot Quality
« on: May 19, 2016, 11:45:58 PM »

Offline PhoSita

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http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2016/story/_/id/15530589/what-advanced-tracking-data-reveals-nba-shooters

A promising new way to quantify what we already understand via the eye test?

I'm curious how the Celts shooters ranked.
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2016, 11:51:14 PM »

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That is really neat.  I hope there's some ranking.  Sadly, I feel the Celtics will be generally low.  It feels like we miss a lot of easy shots.
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2016, 12:05:54 AM »

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Someone made an excellent post about this a few months back. If I recall correctly, the Celtics were top-5 in open 3-point attempts and open long-2s attempts, but they were bottom-5 or bottom-10 in shooting percentage for said shots. It really made me trust Stevens' offensive system and gave me confidence that, given better shooters, the Celtics offense can be deadly.
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2016, 12:06:11 AM »

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Very interesting article. Flip side to this is analyzing defensive impact based on these numbers.
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2016, 12:19:02 AM »

Offline Csfan1984

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Quote from: GetLucky on May 20, 2016, 12:05:54 AM
Someone made an excellent post about this a few months back. If I recall correctly, the Celtics were top-5 in open 3-point attempts and open long-2s attempts, but they were bottom-5 or bottom-10 in shooting percentage for said shots. It really made me trust Stevens' offensive system and gave me confidence that, given better shooters, the Celtics offense can be deadly.
Heard that too. But my logic tells me since they were so bad defenses didn't guard those long shots much and left them open a lot.
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2016, 09:06:33 AM »

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The introduction is bad: this new metric has nothing to do with how good a shooter Curry is or is not.

But the metric itself is neat.
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