Quantified Shot Quality

[PhoSita]

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.

[saltlover]

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.

[GetLucky]

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.

[Denis998]

Very interesting article. Flip side to this is analyzing defensive impact based on these numbers.

[Csfan1984]

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.

[greece66]

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.