[Grades] Grades v. Pelicans 11/18/2014

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Well, NBA TV's schedule is pretty flexible, and I think that ESPN has some flexibility as well, so if we're still in the mix down the stretch, we've got a good chance of getting more national exposure. TNT and ABC's schedules are almost entirely static.

 

[KingMilz]

I could have sworn the Dragic family had a third taller brother playing in the NBA last night

 

[Ron]

Landry should have never been guarding Anderson to begin with, thats just bad coaching, put Omri on him. The momentum of this game turned when we gave Anderson all those wide open looks. Just a bad coaching job tonight by Malone, wasn't out coached, just out coached himself. We had so many mismatches out there that all we needed to do was slow the game down and execute. Blame the players too for some really poor turnovers that got their ball rolling.

You're absolutely right.
Defense Tracking Stats show that defense against 3-pointers is Rudy's & Omri's specialty:
(Caution! Small sample size)

It turns out that opponent players averaging 36.5% from beyond the arc in general,
take a downward leap of -10% (to 26.1%) when guarded by Casspi on the perimeter.
http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/201956/tracking/defense/

Gay's influence is even stronger -
It appears that opponents drop by as much as -14.2% in 3pt shooting, from 36.6% to 22.4%
http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/200752/tracking/defense/

How about the rest of our guys? Nowhere near that!

Ben only decreases opponents' 3pt shooting percentage by -2% (from 37.9% to 35.9%)
http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/203463/tracking/defense/

Nik influences opponents' 3pt shooting negatively, increasing it by +2% from 37.1% to 39.1%
http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/203917/tracking/defense/

 

[Gilles]

It was proven time and time again, that 3pt percentages have little to do with defense. San Antonio was recently #1 in defending 3-pointers, and the year before that they were 28th. So when asked, Popovich just came out right there "We didn't do anything different!" Just to prove this point further, check out Rudy's defense on 3s in 13/14 season.

 

[King Baller]

It was proven time and time again, that 3pt percentages have little to do with defense. San Antonio was recently #1 in defending 3-pointers, and the year before that they were 28th. So when asked, Popovich just came out right there "We didn't do anything different!" Just to prove this point further, check out Rudy's defense on 3s in 13/14 season.

I'm not sure I would lend much credence to one of Pop's answers at a post game Q & A session. I suspect he is blowing smoke 78% of the time

Speaking of making Three's I think that it is one of the areas the Kings will improve on this season as Ben and Nik get more minutes and Reps in.