How Many Shots are Available to the Rockets Starting Power Forward?

The only way Asik conveivably gets traded is if McHale's "Twin Towers" is a complete bust. Right now McHale is borderline infatuated with the idea and so no trade anytime soon. So for those of you who want to trade for a PF...hope and pray that Asik and Dwight don't work.

 

A lot of them over analysis all the times pimpn..LOL What you just said, I agree 100%al. Harden, Howard will get most of the shots. Then Lin and Parson behind them. Everybody else will have make those shots when the opportunities present themselves. Real simple.

 

There rolls has changed, both Dmo and Jones will get more playing time. So bump their shot attempts up 2-3.

 

1. Sure, if you are trying to figure out how the team added up to 82.5 FGA per game, then the "discount" is how you arrive at the number (though there are way simpler ways).

But if you are trying to estimate how many "leftover shots" that a 5th member of the starting 5 will take per 33 minutes by subtracting the shots per minute taken by each of the other 4 guys from the Rockets overall shots per minute last season-- and the OP says you are, then this "discounted FGA/game makes little sense.

Again, no one is trying to calculate the total % of team FGAs that a player took and it isn't the question posted in the OP.

2. I don't know why the OP even bothers with these estimated 33 mpg and stuff when various sites have the actual info displayed in terms of a per game, per 36 minutes, and season total statistics, which can be easily applied to this nonsensical quest of estimating leftover shots for the PF.

Anyhow, I have little hope that the OP will actually see what he did wrong, but hopefully a few less people get misled by this crap.

 

You can't just use the numbers from last year when a lot of them were on different teams and this year's team will be a completely different circumstance.

 

You just don't have enough impulse control to prevent yourself from trolling, do you?

 

Yes, I'd like if you could provide specifics.

 

You don't need to get technical to explain how you can use last year's numbers to predict the number of shots the starting PF would take this year.

We don't even know how this team will play this year. With the addition of Howard, the half-court offense will be entirely different. This effects everybody's touches and everybody's number shot attempts.

Then you have guys coming in from other teams. The teams they were on last year had entirely different offenses from the Rockets, and those players were most likely used differently than McHale will use them on the Rockets.

And one last point... even if LMA would get less touches with the starters, who said he always has to play with the starters? A coach can stagger player's minutes in all kinds of ways so that he always remains one of the main scoring options most of the time.

 

I have taken statistics, calculus, etc. in college, but not any advanced classes.

And yes I am familiar with standard deviation, p-value, etc.

 

There's no point in trying to reason with him. OP is total keyboard jockey nonsense. Armchair general managing at it's absolute worst.

Morey will acquire a top tier 4 giving the rockets the best possible chance to win a championship.

Goofs like jtr think a stiff like tyler hansborough or mark madsen are the key to a championship. It's such an idiotic premise. Unfortunately, the OP is bumping this thread 3 or 4X with each reply to keep it on page one.

 

I advised you earnestly about this haughty tone. . . .

OK, end of thread: your 33 minutes figure is "arbitrary" (your word and mine). So your calculations lead you to an arbitrary conclusion.

No arithmetical knowledge is necessary to understand this.