Kevin Durant has hired his own analytics expert to help improve his game. This shows you how big analytics has become in the NBA. What a trailblazer. Source: http://nba.si.com/2013/04/23/kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-sports-illustrated-cover/
Interesting how the two best basketball players in the world (LeBron, Durant) put such an emphasis on their own offensive efficiency.
Players have always known their sweat spots on the court...but statistics gives more validity to a player in turn more confidence and results in a better outcome...
"Let’s throw out the pull-up three in transition and the step-back fadeaway. Those are rotten apples." Whaaattttt??? I love these two shots. I do them when I can when I play.
The pull-up three in transition can make you look like a boss when you're making your shots... but I hardly ever make my step-back fadeaways. I'd rather drive inside and dunk it hard (soft layup) than a step back fadeaway.
I think this is all interesting. It seems like players would be at their best playing instinctively, and not playing so analytically. But things aren't always as they seem.
I think this whole efficiency thing is actually a bad thing when players stop shooting last second three because it would hurt their efficiency or when durant passes with 2 seconds left so he doesn't hurt his percentages.