1. Sort by usg%, Harden is the guy, needless to say. 2. Parson and Beverley are not really clutch, although impressive OREB from Bevs. 3. Lin is very very clutch, both in score and assist. 4. DW and Jones is there for rebounding, dunk and put backs.
Wow, Lin's asst/TO ratio is SO much better in clutch time - maybe he should just pretend every minute on the court is clutch time.
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Sorry, but I did not really get the message of this table. It does not say, who of the players took the (clutch) shots. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the clutch time performance is above all the shots made by the player. The fact that he was on the court does not say very much. Why was the player on the court? For rebounding, for inbound pass, for creating a 3PT threat, passing etc. The second serious point here is: With whom was the player on the court? You may only have one clutch player in the team. The more the other players get to be on the court with him at clutch time, the better their stats. In other words, I don't see what you can really take home from these stats.
This is a meaningful clutch time analysis. Clearly you need also a sample size parameter, but for the players on these graphs it probably is not relevant.
You can get an idea of who took the shots from the usage% and whether they made them from the efg% and ts%. Harden looks incredibly clutch with a high usage rate and a high ts%. Lin looks like an excellent second option with an even higher ts% but a much lower usage rate. (I fully expect that if Lin had a usage rate like Harden's, his ts% would drop a lot.)
Sutton, the offensive and defensive ratings on that chart seem wack. How is Chandler's offensive rating so high with his low ts%. Or does the ts% apply only to those last three minutes of close games, whereas the offensive rating applies to the whole season?
Or is the offensive rating not a measure of that player's offense, but rather a measure of how many points the team scores per 100 possessions when he's on the court? If the latter, then it seems Chandler is helping the offense in those clutch minutes just by being on the court.
Yes, but it's a low sample size for him of only 19.2 minutes. And he has a low usage rate. So I'd say it's mostly luck in his case.
