One big reason for this is their league - best opponent three point
field goal percentage of 30.8 %.
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.
The Grizzlies had an effective
field goal percentage of.389 in Game 5... and still won.
Not exact matches
In this intuitive test, players»
field goal percentages were not markedly greater after streaks
of makes than after streaks
of misses.
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!
The charts also reveal the
percentage of possessions a player «ends,» either positively or negatively (DPoss %),
field goal percentage on shots defended (OppFG %), ratio
of free throw attempts generated per
field goal attempt defended (OppFTA / FGA), defensive rebounds per 40 minutes (DRebs / 40),
percentage of possessions on which turnovers are created (FTO %), and for the big men, a rim - protection stat that tracks
field goal percentage when they're within five feet
of the basket and the shooter is five or fewer feet away (RimProtect %).
Texas A&M: The Aggies came in ranked 10th nationally in defensive
field -
goal percentage at 38.7, but that wasn't the case against Reath and the Tigers, who shot 44 percent (28
of 63), including 8
of 18 from 3.
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).
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.
He has them running would - be shooters off the arc and toward an interior defense that, through the team's first 20 games, led the country in two - point
field goal percentage allowed, at 34.5 %, and
percentage of shots blocked, at 20.9.
Before this season, his fourth in the NBA, the 6» 10», 215 - pound McAdoo had won a Rookie
of the Year award, two scoring championships with averages
of 30.6 and 34.5, two CBS - TV Player
of the Year awards and one shooting title — in 1973 - 74, while firing mostly from the vicinity
of Buffalo's Peace Bridge, McAdoo had a
field -
goal percentage of 54.7.
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.
Because NFL teams most often score in multiples
of 3 (
field goals) and 7 (touchdowns + extra points), getting on or off these key numbers can have a significant effect on your winning
percentage and units won.
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.
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.
Both his
field goal (46) and three - point (41)
percentages are the second - best clips
of his career.
Russell Westbrook, Paul George and Carmelo Anthony have taken 60.8 %
of the Thunder's
field -
goal attempts this season, the highest
percentage of any trio in the league.
During the game, team USA broke the Olympic record for most points in a game and set U.S. records for 3 - pointers (26),
field goals (59) and
field -
goal percentage (71.1), margin
of victory (83), and the US record for individual scoring (Carmelo's 37)
Since January 1, Washington has a
field -
goal percentage of.485, third in the NBA behind Golden State -LRB-.512) and Indiana -LRB-.495).
But in terms
of effective
field -
goal percentage, yes.
also, this is why his
field goal percentage isn't as useful, either — his sheer volume
of threes pulls down his overall
percentages, but he's a 53.1 percent two - point shooter.