Sentences with phrase «field goal percentage»

... My contention was never that base field goal percentage was the best metric for judging shooters.

He's done his part in making this Rockets team the best squad he's ever played for, averaging 14 points per game, leading the league in field goal percentage at 65 percent and ranking eighth in rebounding with just under 11 per game.

The Grizzlies had an effective field goal percentage of.389 in Game 5... and still won.

One big reason for this is their league - best opponent three point field goal percentage of 30.8 %.

Notre Dame has the No. 1 two - point field goal percentage in the country.

Shaq has the 4th highest field goal percentage in league history, and he's supposed to take jump shots?

It makes sense: They go as Porzingis does, and KP has exhibited significant home / road shooting splits, posting a 52.2 effective field goal percentage at home compared to 45.5 percent on the road.

Most notable is defensive field goal percentage allowed.

West Virginia, 14 - 2 and ranked No. 21 after its 98 - 84 victory over the team with the best field goal percentage defense in the country, got noticed.

While it's a somewhat noisy stat, Richardson's defensive field goal percentage — the percentage that opponents made buckets with him as his primary defender — was 41.6 percent, a number comparable to players like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue Holiday.

Over the past 20 years, the team with the better field goal percentage has gone 12 - 7 (63.2 %) in finals.

Fittingly enough, their opponent field goal percentage of 36.4 % is also the eighth best in the nation.

The Commodores have stayed relatively disciplined — they've committed only six turnovers — but haven't shot well, as evidenced by their 34.5 percent team field goal percentage.

In fact, it is roughly equal to the difference in field goal percentage between the average and the very best 3 - point shooter in the NBA.

GVT divided shots into those that followed streaks of three (or more) makes, and streaks of three (or more) misses, and compared field goal percentages across these categories.

Because of the surprising bias we discovered, their finding of only a negligibly higher field goal percentage for shots following a streak of makes (three percentage points), was, if you do the calculation, actually 11 percentage points higher than one would expect from a coin flip!

Nobody will confuse the»09 Nuggets with the»04 Pistons, but this season Denver allowed the lowest field goal percentage in the Western Conference, a harbinger of playoff success.

Kentucky ranks amongst the nation's top 20 in points, rebounds and field goal percentage while featuring as many as five first round picks in this year's NBA draft.

Laughable isn't the word to describe his averages in points (8.6 per game through Monday), rebounds (4.1) and blocked shots (0.8), or his.437 field goal percentage.

Loyola limits three - point shots and held opponents to a stingy 47.7 percent effective - field goal percentage throughout the season.

Effective field goal percentage equalizes the point value earned on two - pointers and threes, and so this just shows that teams are expected to score more points for any given shot than any other time in league history.

In two and a half seasons with the Cavs, he averaged 14.3 points on a.420 field goal percentage and a.328 three - point percentage.

Out of 351 schools, UConn's field goal percentage ranks 327th.

But if they're near the average for the teams effective field goal percentage, then they wouldn't have any effect on APA.

An athletic bunch, the Bucks are seventh in the league in three - point field goal percentage allowed.

It was fourth in 3 - point field goal percentage defense (31.1 percent), but Vanderbilt hit 46 percent.

Luckily, he ranks in the 84th percentile in field goal percentage at the rim, 80th percentile in the midrange, and 82nd percentile from the 3 - point line.

Drummond's defensive field goal percentage was the third worst in the league among centers.

If you look for the league's highest field goal percentages and assists per game, they began in the late «70s and continued throughout the following decade.

He's seventh on the NBA blocks leaderboard (2.11 BLK), 11th in field goal percentage (54.8 percent), 17th in scoring average and he has posted nine double - doubles, which is one fewer than Chris Bosh (10) on the year — though Noah (20) and Chandler (17) rank higher on the double - double list.

In this intuitive test, players» field goal percentages were not markedly greater after streaks of makes than after streaks of misses.

The younger brother of UNC's Tyler, Zeller leads the Hoosiers in scoring at 15.1 points per game and has been incredibly efficient with a 65.9 % field goal percentage.

«In the future he will have a three - to - one assist - to - turnover ratio, he'll shoot 40 % from the three - point line, and his field goal percentage will be over 45.»

Curry cracked the top - 5 in three - point field goal percentage and finished with a 45.3 percent mark.

Gay is still averaging a team - best 17.6 points per game, but has seen his field goal percentage drop to just 42 percent.

They've been so stifling through their first 20 games — allowing just 0.801 points per possession and a field goal percentage of 32.1, both the lowest figures in the nation — that it is now customary for losing coaches to say something retweetably superlative about how they guard.

«They held our field goal percentage down.

As of Sunday, Just Plain Joe ranked second in the ACC in scoring (22.3 points a game) and third in both field goal percentage -LRB-.616) and rebounds (9.7).

Texas has the No. 1 field goal percentage defense in the country.

After never having scored more than 6.4 points a game in any of his previous three seasons with Dayton, he was averaging 12.9 points and six rebounds and was ranked second in the nation in field goal percentage, at.679.

Drummond finished second in the the league in both field goal percentage and rebounds per game last season as a 20 - year - old.

He was on pace for career - highs in scoring at 18.6 points a game, blocks with 1.5, field goal percentage at 56.7, and he was fouling less than ever.

The increase in points per game coincides with an increased pace, which is the number of possessions a team averages per 48 minutes, and an increase in effective field goal percentage, which weighs three pointers more than two pointers.

The 25 - year - old guard is setting several career highs this season, including points (21.0 PPG) and field goal percentage (42.8 %) and three point percentage (37.8 %).

The Ramblers entered the day eighth in Division I in effective field goal percentage, a measure of shooting talent that weights threes as 50 percent more valuable than twos.

Florida Gulf Coast ranked fifth in the country in field goal percentage (50.2 %) during the regular season and junior guard Brandon Goodwin (18.2 PPG, 4.6 RPG, and 4.0 APG) may be one of the nation's most underrated players.