There's a thread for Synergy defensive stats here. I wanted to focus on offensive stats in this thread. People can look them up here: http://www.mysynergysports.com/synergystats/ Here is a chart which I hope helps illustrate where our strengths and weaknesses are in terms of different offensive play types: The x-axis is percentile rank in terms of PPP ("points per play"). For example, we're last in the league in our PPP for off-screen shots, which is why it shows in the 0th percentile. We are currently 5th for pick-and-roll efficiency, which puts us in the 83rd percentile. The y-axis is simply the percentage of our plays for each type. I would have preferred that this show our percentile rank for these percentages instead, but that information isn't readily available from Synergy. So, for instance, most of our shots come from spot-up jumpers, and we are very inefficient on this relative to the rest of the league. But do we a take a higher proportion of spot-up jumpers than most other teams? I feel the answer is yes, but this chart doesn't make that totally clear. The size of each "bubble" reflects the total points we score for every 100 plays we run for each play-type. So, we get most of our points from pick-and-roll, spot-up, transition, and isolation, in that order. Post-up points are relatively infrequent, which is no surprise to anybody watching the team or familiar with our personnel. Clearly, the "strength" of our offense is the pick-and-roll. So, who is driving this? Synergy provides a nice pie chart that break it down, per player: Harden's PPP as a PNR ball-hander is 1.02, which Synergy says rank him 2nd in the league. Note that these stats don't include assists, only scores and turnovers. For example, if Lin makes a sweet pass for a score off of a pick and roll, he's not "credited" for this here. Also, I've been down on Patterson this year, but I'll give him credit for being an efficient option as a roll-man. PNR Ball-Handler PNR Roll-Man %Plays #Plays PPP %Plays #Plays PPP J. Harden 10.1% 96 1.02 (2) 0.0% 0 J. Lin 6.0% 51 0.76 (33) 0.0% 0 O. Asik 0.0% 5.2% 42 0.93 (13) T. Douglas 4.2% 15 0.4 0.0% 0 P. Patterson 0.0% 0 2.3% 15 1.33 C. Parsons 1.1% 10 0.6 0.1% 1 0 %Plays: estimate of percentage of total plays ending in a shot/turnover credited to the player while he's on the floor. #Plays: total number of plays ending in a shot/turnover credited to the player. PPP: points scored per play ending in a shot/turnover.
The first set data could also plotted this way. I prefer this view since it gives you the ranking too
Imagine how much better we would be in the PNR if we had a better big man who rolled hard to the rim & who sets great screens.
You think Asik sets poor screens? He looks to me to be a very good screen setter in the handful of games I watched. Wide body, moves his feet well, hard to get around.
For individual players, yes, but for the team as a whole it covers over 1200 plays. I think that's enough of a sample size to where we can learn something about the team and what its doing well / not well on offense.
Thanks for the response. Great thread by the way I didn't realize Synergy could do all of this. I think Asik has been inconsistent in terms of screen setting. I have seen him set legit ones. But then there are times where he doesn't seal off his man properly. When we play the Bulls I will try to really focus in on that part of his game.
Cool. I'll be interested to read your observations. I hate that I can't watch the games regularly this season.
Yeah it really sucks that you guys can't watch games consistently. If you go on the Rockets website & search in the video "Lins tough and one". it was added 17 days ago but Asik set a really big pick for Lin that gave him just enough separation to blow by his man. That is the play I remember most vividly because Jason Friedman tweeted about it. But Clutch made a fair point that opponents are starting to go under the screens for Lin because of his shooting struggles so he really needs to figure that out. Season is still so early so I am not too worried yet.
