Comments on: BBR Mailbag: Biggest Yearly Declines in 3-Point Attempts

By: james

james — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:47:11 +0000

It should be pointed out that Josh Smith changed positions. He entered the league as a SF, last year he was listed as a PF. All these numbers and crazy stats... um... he's a power forward now. Might have something (A LOT) to do with it.

By: Learn how to play basketball

Learn how to play basketball — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:37:09 +0000

Smith's percentages could also be affected by criticism on and off the court. This, however helped the Hawks and made Josh Smith a more strong conscious player on-court.

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:38:57 +0000

That's from Bob Chaikin's work on "touches"; I talk about it in the Blog-tionary:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=1120

It estimates the # of times a player touched the ball in an attacking position on the floor, and from there you can calculate the % of times each touch ended in a completed pass, a shot, a turnover, or a foul drawn. Smith's pass/shoot/tov/fd in the '09 regular season was 43/37/13/7 on 0.97 touches per minute, but in 2010 it was 57/28/10/6 on 1.28 t/mp.

Also, we'll see what we can do about comment previews.

By: edk

edk — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:36:08 +0000

a more willing passer (he passed on 57% of his touches instead of 43%),

Neil, where did this come from? (Also, can you implement comment previews?)

By: Romain

Romain — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:32:53 +0000

I wish Lebron were on this list...
It always pains me to see him average between 4 to 5 3PA per game and making just a third of them year in year out.
I mean, last year he shot .56 from 2 points. Why the hell did he keep launching so many 3s !!

By: Jason J

Jason J — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:43:00 +0000

Wait, wait... did I read that right? Atlanta was 2nd in the league in offense last year? I knew Jamal Crawford was da bomb!

By: AYC

AYC — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:36:36 +0000

Marion has shot under 20% from 3 since leaving PHX; sounds like he's still shooting too many to me. He had two outlier seasons where he shot about .390 from three (before Nash btw), but otherwise he was never better than avg from 3, even in PHX.

By: C

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:12:17 +0000

Josh Smith finally listened to his coach and stopped shooting them. He said he really never thought about it before. But wanted to do whats best for the team. Out of those 7 he shot last year im sure 3-4 were buzzer beaters at the end of the qtr or shot clock. Hes really became a beast because of it.

By: JTaylor21

JTaylor21 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:06:32 +0000

@JB, it is because NBA Live sucks. 2k beats it in every aspect. If you haven't seen the light and switched to 2k you may never recover from weakgameitis.

By: Anon x 2

Anon x 2 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:49:05 +0000

2 point shooter should have been 3 up there. darn typos.