http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/greenge01.html Gerald Green Houston Rockets 54 PPG 18 RPG 100% FG
If used properly, that's true. But the point is that's not how they tend to be used. You could - but people don't tend to do that. They tend to just use it in a descriptive sense of him being a good or bad shooter. People tend to use Per36 in the extrapolative sense as you described. As I said, the stat is fine when used properly. It's just that most people don't use it properly, especially in comparison to other more traditional stats. They use it to predict how the player would perform with more minutes, at which point its usefulness breaks down.
I think the Per36 stats are used in the descriptive sense more often than not. If someone says: "This player is one of the best scorers in the league based on points scored per 36 minutes", are they using it descriptively or extrapolating?
according to basketball-reference, these 2 beasts matched up twice in their illustrious careers. this appears to be from JBC/CN II (which it was hyped as back then) when JBC would give a spectacular 30 minute, 6-17, 13 and 6 performance to just edge out CN's 16 minute, 1-6, 2 and 6 performance. however, in the end, it would be the intangibles of nevitt that would win the day for the houston rockets.
also, nevitt shooting 216 ft/36 min seems impossible. i mean, playing only 1 minute in a season is hard enough. you can't just be a bit player/victory cigar or you get too many minutes. and you can't accidentally get subbed into 2 different games or get subbed in at the 2 minute mark of 1 game. just 1 minute in 1 game. and to somehow get fouled 3 times in that minute. i would assume it was a blowout but maybe it was a close game and they were going hack-a-shaq (****-a-chuck?) to keep it close. but of course when you're fouling a player of nevitt's caliber, that's not going to work.
I'm looking for the biggest hitmen (fouls per) in the per36 history of the nba. Peter Aluma (TRU ENFORCER) : 28.8 Jonathan Kerner: 14.4 Sun Yue : 12.9 Joao Vianna: 12.0 Slavko Vranes: 12.0
Maybe there was an injury, and the opposing team picked him to enter the game specifically so they could put him on the line. Its funny -- he shot 90 free throws in his entire career which spanned 11 seasons. And yet, in a single minute of the 93-94 season he gets 6 free throws.
and even crazier, it was the last minute he would ever play. his whole career is crazy. he plays over a 12 year span, doesn't play a single game in 3 of those seasons (i assume injured his 2nd year, then just old in the 90's), plays under 100 minutes in 6 other seasons, and finishes his career on a run of 9, 9, and 1 minutes played in his last 3 seasons. he somehow was so crappy he could never ever get minutes and yet remained just uncrappy enough that teams kept picking him up to sit on their bench for 12 years.
