The Best & Worst Isolation Players in the NBA: The Beard?

I would say that irving needs more touches and lebron less isolations

 

Wow, Irving could be in talks for scoring title if LBJ wasn't on the same team.

 

I'm surprised Lawson isn't on there. I guess I don't know enough about him, but I just assumed a fair number of his drive-and-dish assists came from iso's. I guess that's not the case??? Thanks.

 

He is, Just hidden behind Brandon Knight's name

 

I think these guys are amongst the more efficient scorers in isolation. Not really the best and the worst. James Harden is amongst the most efficient you can find in this league. People will say "Irving needs more touches" but what this graphic shows is that, despite who is guarding him, Harden is going to create space and get points in isolation. Same thing with LeBron but guys can marginally disrupt a percentage of a physical player more than they can with someone skilled and crafty (e.g Harden)

Irving is just very aware of who he can beat off the dribble, get space, and score and he does it consistently. Doesn't mean he can do it on most everyone like Harden. Otherwise he would be able to singlehandedly bring his team to the playoffs in the East (which, he hasn't been able to.)

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Bummer. Seems really low considering I believe I had heard a stat that he was one of the best at Points per Drive?

It's all so fascinating though. Some of the most interesting stuff on this site to me.

 

That "points per possession" number for James is not that impressive considering that he had 0.605 TS% and 0.511 eFG% for last season.

Hopefully with Harden and Lawson on the same court, they can dramatically reduce the 1-on-1 possessions.

 

Most isos happen in shot clock and game clock situations, kyrie and jamal are high points, low volume because there's someone else on their team that does those situations.

The best iso player (by far) is Durant though, he just didn't play enough last year.

 

Efficiency of ISO being lower than the overall efficiency is expected. That's why it is seldom good to use ISO as your go-to play. Too easy to stop in the era of no illegal defense.

 

With Lawson playing well Harden does not need to ISO that hard IMO

 

James Harden's TS% in 2011-12 Regular Season: .660
James Harden's TS% in 2011-12 Post Season: .605

James Harden's TS% in 2014-15 Regular Season: .605
James Harden's TS% in 2014-15 Post Season: .620


Pretty awesome to see that when talking about accuracy under pressure(late shot clock possession), James Harden is one of the best in the game. James Harden is gonna be a snipper next season with the addition of Ty Lawson. In 2011, during OKC's finals run...just look at how efficient the dude was. Considering that he has played more games with the Rockets than OKC, Harden has still maintained his shooting prowess with an increased offensive burden. That truly is very remarkable. Now he has a tier one shot creator setting him up.

Excited about the possibilities, but we still are a long ways from anything.

 

I lol'd a bit when I saw Dion Waiters...all thought of was:

 

He was without him before this year you know.

 

I am not a huge fan of the iso ball. Bring back rick. Kyrie Irving has some sick handles, but it just lends to people standing around. Kyrie led teams have always sucked.

 

He has to stay healthy

 

That's impressive.

With Lawson he'll get fewer isos but be higher on ppp

 

We all saw (joking, most of you didn't see it obviously) what can Kyrie and Love do without LeBron, when LeBron took mid season vacation. Cavs were under .500 in that stretch. Kyrie is amazing ball handler and driver, but I would take a handful of PGs in a do or die match in front of Kyrie.

 

How do you edit posts in here?
Kyrie doesn't make his teammates better and that's a big no no for a point guard.

 

Kobe... chuck chuck chuck.