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Daniel Bratulić

3 years

Updated my GitHub repo with some code I've written through the year/season. Charts are done using Python and mostly @matplotlib Some highlights below 🔽🔽🔽

GitHub - danchyy/Basketball_Analytics: Repository which contains various scripts and work with...

Repository which contains various scripts and work with various basketball statistics - danchyy/Basketball_Analytics

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

5 months

The Sixers are the most affected team by wrong calls in the last 2 minutes in the 2023-24 season, according to the L2M reports. The Lakers and the Celtics are also in the top (well, bottom) 5. The Nuggets are the ones who benefited the most throughout the season!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Even though the refs missed the crucial foul on LeBron James a few days ago against the Celtics, according to the L2M reports the refs made wrong calls in their favor the most this season. On the other hand, The Nuggets, Kings, and Jazz were most hurt by the wrong calls

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

If you don't believe "Heat culture" exists just check out Lowry's photos for from last season with the Raptors and the current season. But there's more...

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@daniel_bratulic

3 years

The @Bucks have the least amount of passes per possession in their series vs @BrooklynNets ever since passing data is tracking in 2013-14. The Bucks' offense has basically turned into ISO offense. In 1st half of game 3 they had 0 (half-court) passes in approx 21/43 possessions

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Here is a summary of all-time L2M reports (since 2015). The Nuggets, Jazz, Bucks, and Cavs are the teams that are most "hurt" by refs in the L2M.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

But is he the most efficient?

SportsCenter

@SportsCenter

3 years

Since he arrived, nobody’s delivered more in the clutch than Russell Westbrook ✍️🧾

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

I have no idea how NBA League Pass becomes a worse product with every new season. Such a horrible User Experience. Multiple clicks which do nothing, constant logouts, constant crashes, removed features (annotations of shots/actions), etc...

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Here's a look at players who attempt the most floaters this season. Judging from the data, we can count Jokić's floater as one of the most dangerous shots in the game

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Plotted out how some players perform in the clutch this season. No surprise here

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Markieff Morris last year: indifferent Markieff Morris this year: different

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

PJ Tucker last year (taken with Rockets): pondering retirement PJ Tucker this season: Determined to win

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Dewayne Dedmon last year: Yea, I'm dangerous, but don't worry Dewayne Dedmon this year: Yea, I'm dangerous, you should worry

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

8 months

Bucks' opponents in the past month have looked like deer in the headlights when they were wide open from the 3-pt line, because they shot just 26.9%!! The Lakers managed to remain 7th in Def rating in December despite opponents shooting lights out vs them

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Walker Kessler is looking like the real deal in terms of rim defense. Opponents are shooting 5.3% fewer shots in the RA when he's on the court and 6% less efficiently! Gobert is still the king of deterrence, and JJJ is just ridiculous at defending the rim

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Caleb Martin last year: just happy to be here Caleb Martin this year: Let's get this done

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

8 months

We're halfway through the season, so here's a look at how affected was each team by wrong calls according to the L2M reports this season.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Shot-making is the most important skill in playoff basketball, here's how the top 30 players fared in comparison to the regular season. Some team's success/failure can maybe be attributed based on player's efficiency increase/decrease

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

55.66% of Jokić's assists end up as layups/dunks in the Restricted Area. That is the highest rate out of the top 50 players in total assists this season. Sabonis and Draymond have <=30% AST rate in the RA (among lowest out of top 50) - that makes Jokić's numbers more impressive

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

(1/) A short thread on how the Celtics stretched out the floor. To start: What was wrong? The cuts from relatively wide-open situations in game 2 which resulted in turnovers were wrong. Cs lost the ball while attempting passes to the low post

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

I'm retweeting this again because it's such a good quote: "There’s a lot of other space on the floor that you can get to. And if you work on it enough and you’re confident enough, those can be your layups" - this is the point of analytics in my opinion

Erik Slater

@erikslater_

2 years

I asked Mikal about his approach given analytics not favoring the mid-range shot in today's NBA: “I know the analytics with the threes and layups, but we’re basketball players at the same time, we work on our games. Sometimes you can’t get to the rim, you just can’t. There’s a

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Been playing around with some Nuggets' data for something I'm writing and made this chart in progress. Nuggets = "Church of Jokić"

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

Christmas came early!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Breakdown of turnovers by type for the top (bottom?) 20 players in total turnovers this season

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Lol Jokić is 27th in USG%, 41st in FGA per game, 47.5% of his rebounds are contested (17th out of 73 players with 6+ rebs). When you watch the game you don't even think about him being a stat-padder. Perkins is so silly

First Take

@FirstTake

2 years

. @jj_redick STRONGLY disagrees with @KendrickPerkins that Nikola Jokić is stat-padding 😳

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

Myles Turner is the first player with 8 blocks in a game since Myles Turner on season opener, who was the first to do it since Myles Turner in February of last season

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

Best "hustlers" in the NBA this year. A couple of them stand out in either deflections or contested shots, but there is one (khm DPOY khm) who stands out in both of them...

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

@Adam_Mares I found the archive which runs to 2014-15, I can try to run it tomorrow

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

@DaveDuFourNBA Great pod! On topic of deterrence, you kind of can quantify the deterrence by Rudy Gobert, I did this chart sometime during last season. It gives you a glimp of how significantly the number of shots in RA falls/rises when player is on/off

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Checking in from first live NBA game ever 😍

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Wrote about Denver Nuggets and tried to add in video analysis of some unconventional plays they run for Jokić, and some cool cut plays by MPJ/Gordon. I hope you like it and please comment if I misnamed a play or two!

Denver Nuggets - Poetry in Motion

Welcome to BBallytics! This site is all about quality, in depth and detailed basketball analysis.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here is a breakdown of how top stealers in the game get their steals. Some are better at pickpocketing the ball handlers (Thybulle, CP3), some are better while playing off the ball (OG, Haliburton) and some excel at both (Murray, Ball, Caruso, Smart, Butler)

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

100 most common shot locations for each team this season. Spot some signature shots -> Elbow jumper by CP3 and Kawhi, Baseline jumper by AD, and those mid-rangers by Embiid

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Here are the top assist combinations this season. Jokić and Trae are the only ones appearing three times on the table as assister, while Harden-Embiid have a steady lead ahead of all other combos

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Luka Dončić is 5th in the NBA in FGA from drives per game with 8.5. Here's a zoom on his drives that end up all the way in the restricted area, there's a clear preference of his right side based from this chart

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

One subtle, but really important aspect of rim defense is how successfully can a team recover blocked shots. A big part in that plays blocking technique. Evan Mobley has already shown that skill, as he's the only player in the top 10 in total blocks with 70% of them recovered

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

I might spend a bit too much in this store

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Also, yesterday's post had some mistakes 🙈😅. Big thanks to @owenlhjphillips who pointed them out to me, so here is a correct version of this year's L2M report. NBA's API handles ICs weirdly, I fixed this today, so some teams are seeing big changes (Lakers, Hawks).

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here's a scatter plot that shows which players move the most on offense out of players who have a lot of touches.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here's an updated view which shows the ratio of real and fake assists. Dejounte Murray gets the most fake assists out of the top 30 assisters in the league. I assume that is because of Spurs' style which relies on a lot of drives (same goes for Morant and Haliburton)

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

5 months

Replies and quote tweets are wild. The video is like 90% positive, highlighting only well-known negatives (for on-off metric): - defense - good staggering with Kyrie - Mavs play-style I'd add discipline - techs, ref talk, and not returning to D can show in on-off IMO

Ben Taylor

@ElGee35

5 months

📽How can Luka Doncic put up video game numbers, yet the Mavs barely change when he goes to the bench? We look at his defense, off ball game, and more to tackle this strange paradox.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

I made a table that shows the efficiency of players in "extreme clutch" situations when there is <= 10 seconds and their team is 3 points or less behind (or the game is tied). Data goes all the way to 1996-97.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Jrue Holiday probably became my favorite player in the past month or so. Played his ass off on the defensive side during the finals, traveled half of the world and picks up players full court, and hustles for offensive boards

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

8 months

The Wolves, Rockets, and Thunder have benefited significantly from their lineup consistency (and health) and are currently overperforming their projected win% I touched on this and more in the newest substack post:

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Here's something you don't see everyday. 3x3 tournament inside of Roman amphitheatre in Pula, Croatia!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

7 months

Rudy Gobert is still the "King of Deterrence" Opponents shot almost -6.9% fewer shots inside the restricted area out of all shots. Along with that, he is the best in the league at defending the rim as well, as opponents shoot -7.39% when he's on the court vs off the court

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

(2/) How did they correct that? - RW's position being wider - him not cutting but just kinda screening/getting in position for OREB - Al and guards are DEFINITELY not cutting - JB and JT attacking from higher up (notice when he starts to get vertical

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

If you had to guess who has the longest average distance of 3 point shots, you'd probably guess correctly. Damian Lillard tops the chart, followed closely by Trae Young, the two of them have been at the top of this list for several last seasons

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here is the same data represented in a table, there's a better grasp on the volume of shooting. Luka is out of this world.

Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Shot-making is the most important skill in playoff basketball, here's how the top 30 players fared in comparison to the regular season. Some team's success/failure can maybe be attributed based on player's efficiency increase/decrease

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

Point Šiši = Best version of Šarić

SaricMuse

@DarioSaricMuse

1 year

Where does Dario Saric rank amongst other players in the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament 2023 Türkiye: PPG: 3rd RPG: 2nd APG: 1st SPG: 3rd BPG: 18th Total Points: 6th Goat things!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Is this too hot of a take? Monte Morris is the 2nd most important player for Nuggets. He's basically the only one who can drive to the hoop along with Jokić and can create shot for himself better than MPJ. He scored or assisted the last 10 of 18 Nuggets' FGA in game 6.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Draymond has received a lot of slander for his offense in G4, deservingly so. But he corrected all of his defensive mistakes from G3, I feel like these two plays by him in the first half really set the tone for the rest of the game, because these were successful in G3

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here's a look at players who are best at drawing the foul while their opponent is in a penalty (last column). NOTE: Those fouls are REGULAR on-ball fouls which aren't shooting fouls in normal situations. shout out to @StephNoh who brought up this topic in a slack

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here are the top 20 players in total 3FGA and how closely their shots are defended. Strong Off-ball gravity by @D_Bo20 can be kind of seen from this chart as 40% of all of his triples are tightly defended...

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Make sure to visit Dražen when you're in Šibenik :)

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

In the latest episode of @AthleticNBAShow 's Nerder She Wrote, folks mentioned that the top teams are playing in a very diverse way. I tried to capture that through some radar charts displaying their preferences based on the play type.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

🇭🇷 Hrvatska verzija za NBA Pulsmedia:

NBA Puls

Stranica će se vratiti online, u drugom formatu. Uskoro. :)

nba.pulsmedia.hr

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Ja Morant leads the league in FGA drives per game this season, so I zoomed in at his drives in the restricted area. The data used for this chart is shot chart data. This is a new chart for me, I just got interested to see how would this look.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Here are the top big men combinations when it comes to assisting fellow big men teammate. Olynyk🤝Markkanen Mobley🤝Allen Plumlee🤝McDaniels Adams🤝Aldama These combos are taking 8 out of top 10 spots for most assists.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

0.7 * 2 > 0.4 * 3

Chris Vernon

@ChrisVernonShow

2 years

The analytics world changed way bball is played with 3 > 2. Rightfully so. Now we are told that their beloved defensive hero HAS TO stay in the paint - in order to prevent… wait for it… 2 pts. While giving up wide open threes. Makes ya think. 🤥

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Wrote a piece about one of my favourite players, Dario Šarić. How his role changed through the years, and how he looks like a serious contender for 6th man of the year this season!

Did Dario Šarić finally find his true role?

From Point Forward on poor Sixers' team, to multiple seasons of being a Catch&Shoot, to newest role. Small-Ball center.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

After 7 years of playing fantasy basketball, I've finally won a league. I'd like to thank playoff MVPs Kelly Olynyk and Oshae Brissett for carrying the team to win. #Blessed

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

That's a super tough task to do, as Campazzo's impact is the worse player in the entire NBA league with a net rating difference when he's on/off the court with -22.8. Second place is Jalen Green with -17.9. Jokić is however the best in the league with +22.2

Ice Cave Guy

@Misslovechook1

3 years

Watching Nuggets Grizzlies game from the beginning and preparing my defense case for Facundo. Stay tuned.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

This table from my latest piece about Gobert shows how his presence on the court reduces the ratio of total shots in RA by opponents. No one is even near him in this segment of the game, and along with deterring opponents from the rim, they shoot less efficiently when he's ON

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Mavs role players: 1-13 Clippers role players: 9-14 Luka with 37% USG%; made or assisted on 17 out of 25 FGM Clippers with 18 AST on 24 FGM Pretty much the summary of the first half IMO

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

@OptaAnalyst Isn't it logical that he has the most pressures since the City basically sits 50% of the game in the final 3rd? Wouldn't, let's say, Mitrović's number of pressures be more impressive in this situation?

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

What did Banchero do to deserve being an unanimous ROY? Why are people so baffled when someone votes different for any award is beyond me

NBACentral

@TheDunkCentral

1 year

Someone just ruined Paolo Banchero’s chances of being unanimous rookie of the year 😅 (Via @CroesFire )

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

6 months

If you haven't noticed yet, the trend of Free Throw attempts per game has dropped significantly since the start of 2024 and it seems like it will drop even further in March

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

I wrote about mid-season awards and who deserves them in my opinion. Added some charts along with a lot of text and my observations. Check it out below!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

Booker just had the 4th most efficient 40+ point playoff game since 1979-80 - if we're observing TS%. He had 3rd best if we're looking at eFG% He had the most efficient 20+FGM playoff game in that range when observing any metric. Absolutely ridiculous game

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

James Harden has been blocked 11 times in the playoffs so far. He attempted 67 shots in total. Also, he's shooting a playoff-record low 36.8% on 2pt shots, lower than his 3pt% which sits at 37.9%. He's got no quickness and bounce which made him such a dangerous player

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Mid-range is dead, except it's not really dead. It's used in the best possible way. Wrote about this recently

Is the mid-range really dead?

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Kirk Goldsberry

@kirkgoldsberry

3 years

Most Common Shot Locations In The NBA This Season.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

(5/) And for the end - abusing Steph/Poole, off-ball and on-ball Poole was often unsure what to do in some screen situations and Steph was attacked bunch of times which either ended up in a score over him, a help from Ws + kick out to an open 3

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

Uzorak je naravno jako mali, ali na posljednja tri košarkaška "turnira", asistencije po utakmici košarkaške repke izgledaju ovako: OI kvalifikacije Split 2021: 11.7 (6/6) Eurobasket 2022: 17.5 (18/24) OI Pretkvalifikacije Turska: 25.3 (1/8)

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

@david_t_savage Added it right away actually! It moves the Clippers to the last place instead of the Lakers!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

8 months

@DanBesbris Exactly. The Pelicans have had the worst luck, the Nuggets the best luck

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

I noticed that Garland doesn't hesitate to pull up 3 pointers from deep this season. So I went to check average distances for each of his seasons and found that he increased his avg 3pt distance by 1 feet/0.3m!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

9 months

Haha this is funny, they even cut how Jokić recovered the ball after that block and scored on Wemby. Also, I get that it's social media and you have to be "a presence", but putting this after Jokić put up 39/11/9 on 58% is just dumb

Spurs Culture

@SpursCulture

9 months

“Just wait until Wemby has to defend Jokic.”

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

There already were a couple of visualizations similar to this, but here is my attempt at plotting all of LeBron's shots made throughout his career!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

Awesome trade by the Jazz, he'll fit right in with Markkanen and Kessler. This will also help reduce the pressure onHendricks so he can develop with ease. I wonder if Olynyk gets moved now, maybe 4 big men (5 if you count Markkanen) is too many?

Adrian Wojnarowski

@wojespn

1 year

ESPN Sources: The Hawks are finalizing a trade to send F/C John Collins to the Jazz for Rudy Gay and a future second-round pick. Atlanta’s largely unloading Collins’ three years, $78M for some roster building flexibility and alignment with looming changes to salary cap.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

10 months

Chet Holmgren has been off to a hot start in his NBA career. Scoring exactly 17 ppg with a whopping 69.65 TS%. Here is a look at how his start compares to other rookies in the past 20+ years

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

Last night's performance by @FredVanVleet was just amazing. 54 points on 17-23!

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

This post has some mistakes 🙈😅. They were pointed out to me, so here is a correct version of this year's L2M report. NBA's API handles ICs weirdly which causes some teams to have reaaaally wrong numbers, I fixed this today, so some teams are seeing big changes (Lakers, Hawks).

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

1 year

Hrvatska je izgledala dobro protiv Belgije. Jednostavno se vidila i osjetila individualna kvaliteta prvo Šarića pa onda Zupca, Heza i Smitha. Nadam se da ce jos vise vuci ostale u iducim tekmama. Šiši izgleda ko onaj prije ozljede i mislim da ce biti sjajan u GSW

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

I think Steph Curry is a player from whom kids who practice basketball can learn the most, but they take away only the shooting part. Endurance/stamina, immediately moving after the pass, constantly being in triple threat stance and most importantly smartly abusing the screens

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

On last week's @AthleticNBAShow 's Nerder She Wrote, @MoDakhil_NBA said that "we continually account assists wrong", and that they're being handed too easily. I plotted "real" and "fake" assists with pbp data from 01-02 to today. (more info on real/fake ast in thread)

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

(3/) It was even more obvious that he shouldn't clog the lane in this play which was one of the rare turnovers by Tatum in this game. Notice how he gives up the position to screen Grant for space. This is kind of a very subtle, but very important detail IMO

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Lauri Markkanen is (IMO) the frontrunner for this year's MIP award. Here's a comparison of shot attempt frequency by zones from this and last season. He is taking very "analytically friendly" shots, from either paint or 3pt land with a big increase in the paint

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Which players were Jrue Holiday's defensive assignments throughout these finals. I saw this type of chart (or the version in a second tweet) in articles by @SethPartnow through the playoffs, but haven't seen them for the Finals so far so wanted to give it a look.

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

PJ Tucker defending KD through entire series: 35/77 overall FG, 8/26 FG3 -> this equates to 50.64% eFG% which is about 7% less than KD's eFG% in playoffs. His impact was real Middleton also kept him at 53.57% on eFG%

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

This is regular season only, since 08-09, with 1 minute or less remaining, when the player's team is trailing by 3 or less points (or tied). Couldn't really filter it to "game-tying or go-ahead" shots but this is close enough

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

Dino Rađa, član stručnog stožera HKS-a: - kaže ne gleda utakmice NBA ligi - NBA jE BiO MuŠKi, DaNas jE sVaka Tekma AlL-StAr - Harden je lik koji šutira 30 trica po utakmici na 20% - Triple Double sezona Westbrooka je manje vrijedna od Robertsona (pace u 60-ima >> pace danas)

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Follow me for a more serious basketball analysis. This may or may not be an example of it. @SamSheehanNBA can be the judge on that one

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

4 years

I saw this chart by @owenlhjphillips a while ago and finally caught time to do something like this. Out of 88 mid-range shots made by @CP3 , 84 of them (95%) were unassisted!

Owen Phillips

@owenlhjphillips

4 years

I made a version of this chart based on something @SethPartnow wrote a while back & reiterated today "...the midrange game isn’t dead, as it remains the province of star shot creators, with just under 75 percent of all midrange shots being self-created."

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Curry's pace to achieve this record is scary. Could this be an "unbreakable" record if he plays on for another 3-4 seasons?

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

10 months

MAGICAL WIDE OPEN 3PT DEFENSE The Orlando Magic have the 2nd best def rating in the league through ~15 games, but they also have the BEST def Shooting Luck Their avg allowed wide-open 3FG% is lower than the average of all their opponents' wide-open avg FG3% More info ⬇️

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

9 months

Is Joel Embiid an Unstoppable Force when driving to the hoop, or is the whistle blown far too easily when he drives?

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Here's a table that shows how are top shot blockers' blocks recovered this season

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

2 years

Zašto ne dati šansu Mavri barem minute u 4. četvrtini nakon sjajne izvedbe u 3.-oj. Apsolutno nejasno. Zašto Hezonju ne staviti prije na Fontecchia, zašto držati Simona u igri koji je bio potpuno indisponiran, i zašto Matković nije prije ušao nakon što je Zubac plivao...

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Daniel Bratulić

@daniel_bratulic

3 years

Jrue Holiday fits perfectly as a 2nd/3rd scoring option on a team and should be a player a lot of young players can look up to. Ever since he got traded to Bucks he has been shooting lights out on pull ups. He might be taking fewer shots, but he's a lot more efficient

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