Lebron leading the league in most regressed FG%

[dreamwarrior]

Lebron 2014 FG% = .567
2015 = .488
A whopping 14% drop compared to last year

Kobe 2014 FG% = .425
2015 = .375
Only 12% drop compared to last year

[Im so nba'd out]

37% :facepalm he makes brandon jennings look efficient

[buddha]

A whopping 14% drop compared to last year


A whopping 14% drop compared to last year

[Cocaine80s]

Lebron 2014 FG% = .567
2015 = .488
A whopping 14% drop compared to last year

Kobe 2014 FG% = .425
2015 = .375
Only 12% drop compared to last year
:biggums:
Nikka do you even know how to do math?

[BigTicket]

And yet Lebron is still above Kobe's career high ...

Also, it is not at all true, Andre Drummond for example has dropped more (from 62% to 50%).

[Milbuck]

:biggums:
Nikka do you even know how to do math?
He just did it a weird way...48.8 is 86% of 56.7. Don't know why he didn't just say his FG% dropped by 7.9%..

[outbreak]

Wow kobe really isn't going to pick up his % is he? Are real Lakers fans hoping he retires at the end of the year?

[outbreak]

And yet Lebron is still above Kobe's career high ...

Also, it is not at all true, Andre Drummond for example has dropped more (from 62% to 50%).
Channing frye went from something like 52% to 40 aswell this year

[plowking]

When you're a billionaire, you can essentially afford to lose half of it. Not great, but it doesn't hurt that much.

When you make $100 in a year, and you lose half of it, you're going to have a bad time.

Basically OP, your thread sucks.

[6 for 24]

The sad thing is that even though LeBron's FG% has regressed more than Kobe's, LeBron isn't compensating by jacking up more shots. The self-proclaimed Mamba is taking a full 8.6 more shots per game this year, leading the league in increased chucks. Of the 8.6, 2.6 are makes and 6.0 are Kobe-assist-opportunities, which also leads the league! So kobe is truly making the most of his regression, unlike the so-called "King".

Warmest regards,

Ayotunde Ndiaye

[Trollsmasher]

The sad thing is that even though LeBron's FG% has regressed more than Kobe's, LeBron isn't compensating by jacking up more shots. The self-proclaimed Mamba is taking a full 8.6 more shots per game this year, leading the league in increased chucks. Of the 8.6, 2.6 are makes and 6.0 are Kobe-assist-opportunities, which also leads the league! So kobe is truly making the most of his regression, unlike the so-called "King".

Warmest regards,

Ayotunde Ndiaye
:roll:

[StephHamann]

He also lost 14% of his hair :(

[YouGotServed]

The sad thing is that even though LeBron's FG% has regressed more than Kobe's, LeBron isn't compensating by jacking up more shots. The self-proclaimed Mamba is taking a full 8.6 more shots per game this year, leading the league in increased chucks. Of the 8.6, 2.6 are makes and 6.0 are Kobe-assist-opportunities, which also leads the league! So kobe is truly making the most of his regression, unlike the so-called "King".

Warmest regards,

Ayotunde Ndiaye

:roll: :roll:

[coin24]

He also lost 14% of his hair :(

Most regressed hair %:lol

[Suguru101]

The sad thing is that even though LeBron's FG% has regressed more than Kobe's, LeBron isn't compensating by jacking up more shots. The self-proclaimed Mamba is taking a full 8.6 more shots per game this year, leading the league in increased chucks. Of the 8.6, 2.6 are makes and 6.0 are Kobe-assist-opportunities, which also leads the league! So kobe is truly making the most of his regression, unlike the so-called "King".

Warmest regards,

Ayotunde Ndiaye

:roll:

[OldSchoolBBall]

No surprise to those of us who knew that his high FG% in Miami was the product of a perfect confluence of circumstances for him. There are those who thought that he would put up those numbers on any team, and I lol @ those people. :oldlol:

[pauk]

Player A:
Shoots 90% FG
Regresses to 70% FG next season.

Player B:
Shoots 42% FG
Regresses to 37% FG next season.

Player B > Player A ?

[HurricaneKid]

Lebron 2014 FG% = .567
2015 = .488
A whopping 14% drop compared to last year

Kobe 2014 FG% = .425
2015 = .375
Only 12% drop compared to last year

LeBron at the biggest regression in the NBA > Kobe at any point in his career.

Got it.

[edrick]

So, Lebron at his worst, is still better than Kobe's average. Got it.

[plowking]

No surprise to those of us who knew that his high FG% in Miami was the product of a perfect confluence of circumstances for him. There are those who thought that he would put up those numbers on any team, and I lol @ those people. :oldlol:

Season isn't close to over, and it was blatantly apparent in his last 10 games he was back to his 55% shooting ways after a poor start.

[Hoopz2332]

No surprise to those of us who knew that his high FG% in Miami was the product of a perfect confluence of circumstances for him. There are those who thought that he would put up those numbers on any team, and I lol @ those people. :oldlol:


Actually na. It's really nothing more than him missing layups when you analyze it. Stuff that he's never missed:mad:

@ December 29 2014

LeBron Can't Finish At The Rim, And It's Sad


It's a brilliant play, one that's hard to imagine anyone besides LeBron James—who always seems to be playing with a top-down view of the court, precisely aware of every player's position—pulling off successfully. There's also something, I don't know, off about it. The play starts with him blowing easily past his defender, something we've all seen plenty of, and yet it does not end with James plowing straight through the rotating defender's chest, muscling in a layup—or maybe even a dunk!—and then flexing after the foul is called, something else we've all seen plenty of. Instead, it ends with LeBron, just for a brief moment, hanging in the air and looking unsure of what he wants to do before his genius snaps back into place and he sends the pass out to the three-point line.

Again, that was a great play, but that brief, unsure moment means something, I think. So does the fact that so far this season, LeBron is shooting 67 percent on shots at the rim—a full 12 percentage points lower than his mark from last season. According to NBA.com, James is shooting 47 percent on drives to the hoop this season, a drop-off of 16 percentage points from what he put up last year. That's a lot!

According to Synergy Sports, last year's version of LeBron was more or less the most lethal player in the league around the rim. On non-post up shots around the basket, he created 1.50 points per possession. (Out of players who took at least 100 shots around the basket, only Dwight Howard was more productive.) He was also a nightmare when driving to the basket out of Iso situations last season, creating 1.13 points per possession when going to his right, and 1.12 when driving to his left.

This year, all of those numbers are down. He's getting just 1.17 points per possession on non-post up shots around the rim, good for 30th in the league among players who have taken at least 100 such shots. He's still doing OK when driving to his right, creating 1.03 points per possession, but he's been a disaster when going to his left, creating just .75 points per possession on 58 such plays.

These numbers would maybe not be all that alarming for a normal player, but this is LeBron James! This is the guy who has spent his career throwing himself into rotating defenders and scattering their bones all over the court. This is the guy who is supposed to have no regard for human life when driving toward the rim.

It's because LeBron is such a goddamn genius that the Cavs have been able to maintain a top-five offensive rating—he's still creating 10 team points per game on drives, thanks in large part to beautiful kick-out passes like the one in the video above—but it's still deeply strange to watch him go at the rim game after game and be unable to finish. At some point, maybe not even all that deep in the playoffs, the Cavs are going to run into a defense good enough to defend the drive-and-kick, and they are going to need LeBron to be a destroyer again, not some guy who can be turned away from the rim by a rotating small forward.

http://deadspin.com/lebron-cant-finish-at-the-rim-and-its-sad-1676006608?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitte r&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow



@ Dec 15 2014

LeBron James Still Learning to Play the Percentages with New Cavs Teammates



For many players, two common culprits for a drop in shooting percentage are more shots in general, or more three-point attempts specifically. That's not really the case here, however.

James hasn't become a gunner. He's averaging slightly more shots (18.4) than the past two seasons (17.6 and 17.8, respectively), but it's still the third-lowest number of his 12-year career; meanwhile, his assists are up significantly from last season (6.3 to 7.6), his second-highest mark as a pro. He's averaging more three-point attempts (4.3) than in any of his four Heat seasons, but that's negligibly more than last season (4.0), and less than he shot (5.1) his final season in Cleveland. And he's shooting 36.7 percent from behind the arc, still respectable, and ranking third in his career.

Rather, the relative trouble has come from two-point range: from 60.2 percent in 2012-13 and 62.2 percent last season to 52.7 percent this season, back near his 2005-06 level.


Two-point shots, of course, can come from anywhere up to about 23 feet, depending on where they're attempted in the half court. Yet the drop-off doesn't appear to be about distance. He's hitting 39.2 percent of his jumpers, not all that much different from what he did last season (41.2).

For the cause of the dip, look closer. Literally, closer to the hoop.

With Cleveland, he's taking 33.9 percent of his shots less than three feet from the basket—characterized as "at the rim"—which is down from the past two seasons (39.9 percent and 37.3 percent of his overall attempts, respectively), but up from his first two seasons in Miami, when he shot better overall.

He's just making fewer of those. The last four seasons, he converted at the rim at a 79.6, 77.6, 75.8 and 74.4 percent rate, respectively. This season? He's at 67.9, the lowest since his rookie year.

The overwhelming majority of those attempts at the rim are layups, on which he's dropped from 73.7 percent last season to 60.6 percent this year. He has 21 dunk attempts (all made), which puts him on pace for the fewest of his career, accounting for 5.4 percent of his attempts overall, down from roughly 10.5 percent of his attempts the past two seasons.

Many have cited the dunk drop-off as a sign of some atrophying of his athleticism. And maybe, even though he's lighter than last season, he isn't scaling the sky to quite the same heights as he once did, considering all the minutes he's logged over the past decade-plus.

But it's also quite possible that this is not about diminished ability but, rather, increased difficulty.

It certainly appears that way at times, when James is contorted at an odd angle on a drive, forced to go to a tough turnaround from well outside 15 feet or isn't aligned in perfect shooting position even when he takes a straightaway jumper.


Here's one key difference from his Miami days, or at least his Miami days over the past two seasons: He's no longer playing power forward.

As the Heat turned to small ball, head coach Erik Spoelstra always spoke of being "positionless." But Basketball-Reference.com doesn't abide by such rules, and it characterized his split between power forward and small forward as 82/15 percent and 82/9 percent the past two seasons. Now, it's virtually reversed, back to the way it was during his first seven seasons in Cleveland and first two in Miami. He's at small forward 65 percent of the time, and power forward 30 percent of the time.

And he's in the post less.

"We have more bigs here, so a lot of his possessions are starting further away from the basket," Jones said. "And when you're playing with Anderson [Varejao] and Kevin Love and Shawn Marion, who likes to slash, you have three or four guys in the paint. So he's shooting more jumpers."

Jump shots account for 64.8 percent of his attempts now, compared to 58.5 of them last season.e

"And we know that shots in the paint are always most efficient," Jones said. "Where his shots originate, he's starting a lot further from the basket, and he's finishing further from the basket."

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2289970-lebron-james-struggling-to-recast-his-game-to-new-set-of-cavs-teammates


Lebron missing so many layups is the main cause for the drop combined with the some of how he's being used. Not enough low/high post because he has to play PG and that keeps him out by the 3pt line and wasting more energy.

[f0und]

so lebron regressed to 48.8%

still better than kobe's career best 46.9%

[Hoopz2332]

so lebron regressed to 48.8%

still better than kobe's career best 46.9%


:rockon:

[Real14]

:applause: :cheers: