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Lunch break small surprising stats:
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Payton Pritchard is averaging 3.5 AST with a 9.5 AST/TO in the past 11 games, currently 3.3 APG and 5.5 AST/TO for the season
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Only Al Horford last year has averaged an AST/TO of 5 or more since 2008. I stopped on the big3 ring because I don’t want to go compile more data than that
These are the players to average over 3 APG and AST/TO of 3 or better since 2008
- DWhite (22-23 – 3.25)
- Al Horford (22-23 – 5, 21-22 – 3.78)
- Rozier (18-19 – 3.22)
- Rondo (14-15 – 3.18, 13-14 – 2.97, from 11-12 to 07-08).
Technically DWhite had 2.9 last year but I created the 3 and 3 as a criteria, he is averaging 3.21 AST/TO with 4.5 APG currently. Rozier had multiple 3 AST/TO but below 2 APG.
This all makes sense because PP is extremely good handling the ball, he has a 0.7 TOV average for his nba career with 71% being bad passes and 29% being lost ball (from Play by Play data)
LET IT BE KNOWN!!!
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2nd night of a back to back at the end of a road trip, down 2 guys, took 50 3’s, missed a bunch of FT’s. This has they’re tired written all over it. I get it’s the Hornets but it happens in the NBA.
Last season the Nuggets lost to the 4-15 Pistons without Cade, Stewart or Bey in late November. At home. They ended up winning the NBA finals.
People have to understand the context of being on the road for 3+ games usually results in poorer performances than usual.
I knew this team was going to settle for a bunch of 3’s because they didn’t have the energy to attack over and over. Brooklyn did the exact same thing to us in their first meeting and they had a terrible second half because of their b2b. It’a every team, get used to them launching a bunch of 3’s in that spot on a schedule.
The next time we have a back to back on the end of a road trip is in March. The only other weird scheduling that stands out to me is this week in January:
- Jan 5: Home vs Jazz
- Jan 6: at Pacers (b2b)
- Jan 8: at Pacers
- Jan 10: Home vs Wolves
- Jan 11: at Bucks (b2b)
5 games in 7 days and some travel with b2b’s, but not that awful compared to how loaded March is.
I’d be willing to bet a good amount of money that these 2 parts of the schedule is how we feel today, doom and gloom.
Just gotta let this one go and get back on track. A win Wednesday would be nice though