The 30/5/50% club

[aj1987]

You're right, my bad. Objective and very informative post

Oh, and Wilt never averaged 60% FG when he had a 30/5 season. He averaged 52% and 54%. So, a drop of 7% and 9%. He averaged over 60% thrice in his career. 2 of those came when he was taking like 7 shots a game.

[The_Pharcyde]

LeBron (11x) if we adjust his stats to the 60s

Except basketball is not an abstract thing and those players physically put up those statistics

They literally shot and passed the ball to achieve those numbers

[ISHGoat]

i'm way more impressed with durant than jordan since jordan rarely shot threes and mostly drove to the rim for more than half his career



fg% is a useless stat. its about points per shot or true shooting %

agree with bolded

but points per shot isnt a great metric either, because free throws.

consider this case:

player A

10/20 from the field for 20 points = 1 point per shot

player B

5/5 from the field, 10/40 from the line for 20 points = 4 points per shot

but player 1 used 20 posessions, while player b used 25 (assuming all his FT are from 2 shot fouls, no and1, tech, etc)

in the end, TS% is king, which is basically points/posessions.

HOWEVER,

ts% doesnt account for the posessions in which you ended with a turnover. so then we delve into deeper advanced stats and arrive at things like PER, BPM, VORP, WS48 which try to fully capture a player's performance through all the recorded stats.

but even that doesnt account for things like hustle, saving loose balls, hitting clutch go-ahead shots at the end of close games, etc

I hope that advanced metrics can continue to improve and capture more aspects of the game.