3032 Individual Defense (622 views)

[eric]

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C PF SF SG PG team
18 -9 -26 1 4 76ers
22 -11 50 22 -5 Bobcats
16 -5 -5 -12 2 Bucks
-28 13 7 15 13 Bullets
-12 -19 -4 -15 -50 Bulls
7 24 19 -22 0 Cavaliers
-6 -2 -14 24 -24 Celtics
-3 12 -8 -17 7 Clippers
-2 10 -5 -3 -30 Grizzlies
-28 -36 -1 -22 4 Hawks
10 8 25 11 18 Heat
0 8 -2 14 -1 Hornets
24 22 17 6 15 Jazz
11 7 -14 20 26 Kings
-18 3 5 -14 12 Knicks
-6 -9 -13 -12 11 Lakers
26 9 1 11 5 Magic
-2 26 24 7 -13 Nets
15 20 -2 22 -2 Nuggets
5 -29 -6 -1 1 Pacers
5 16 -10 -10 10 Raptors
14 5 18 16 17 Rockets
-8 -1 -4 10 13 Spurs
-23 -33 -37 -14 -8 Suns
-11 -22 4 3 -20 SuperSonics
3 1 2 -25 8 Thunder
11 -5 -10 13 6 Timberwolves
-5 6 1 -20 -6 Trailblazers
-26 -15 -8 -5 -7 Warriors

C PF SF SG PG team
4 22 28 15 14 76ers
3 23 1 2 21 Bobcats
5 20 18 20 16 Bucks
29 6 7 6 5 Bullets
24 25 16 24 29 Bulls
11 2 4 28 18 Cavaliers
21 18 26 1 27 Celtics
18 7 22 25 11 Clippers
16 8 19 17 28 Grizzlies
28 29 13 27 15 Hawks
10 10 2 10 2 Heat
15 11 14 7 19 Hornets
2 3 6 13 4 Jazz
9 12 27 4 1 Kings
25 15 8 22 7 Knicks
20 21 25 21 8 Lakers
1 9 12 9 13 Magic
17 1 3 12 25 Nets
6 4 15 3 20 Nuggets
12 27 20 16 17 Pacers
13 5 24 19 9 Raptors
7 14 5 5 3 Rockets
22 17 17 11 6 Spurs
26 28 29 23 24 Suns
23 26 9 14 26 SuperSonics
14 16 10 29 10 Thunder
8 19 23 8 12 Timberwolves
19 13 11 26 22 Trailblazers
27 24 21 18 23 Warriors
Not gonna do All-Half-NBA Defense teams, but at a glance we're seeing a lot of the usual suspects. Will do a full season full post too.

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Myles and Reef doing work at SG but woof at everyone else

[Heynong Man]

Vonleh and Kanter are a great defensive duo

[20s Navidad]

LJ missing all that time and Gallo getting the fill in and backup minutes killing my SF defense.

[[Account Deleted]]

Well I thought I needed to upgrade at center but Chad Gallagher is all like...nah son

[20s Navidad]

May 12, 2016 22:07:20 GMT -6 Heynong Man said:

Vonleh and Kanter are a great defensive duo

Is this sarcasm or did you read the chart wrong?

[Odin]

tyrus at sf is a fucking 50. i don't even know what that means but it seems really good.

[Souper Troopers]

Jazz and rockets pretty good team def.

[gbgalla24]

Allan Houston is the worst defender in the league.

[gbgalla24]

May 13, 2016 10:22:19 GMT -6 20s Navidad said:

May 12, 2016 22:07:20 GMT -6 Heynong Man said:

Vonleh and Kanter are a great defensive duo

Is this sarcasm or did you read the chart wrong?

He is tanking.  So they are great for tanking purposes.

[SPL]

I assume those numbers are good for me?

[gbgalla24]

May 13, 2016 12:11:56 GMT -6 SPL said:

I assume those numbers are good for me?

The bottom chart is the ranking by position, with 1 being the best at the position and 29 being the worst at each position.

[dilworth]

Go Rockets

[SPL]

May 13, 2016 12:14:54 GMT -6 gbgalla24 said:

May 13, 2016 12:11:56 GMT -6 SPL said:

I assume those numbers are good for me?

The bottom chart is the ranking by position, with 1 being the best at the position and 29 being the worst at each position.

Thanks, what do the top numbers mean?

[Heynong Man]

May 13, 2016 10:22:19 GMT -6 20s Navidad said:

May 12, 2016 22:07:20 GMT -6 Heynong Man said:

Vonleh and Kanter are a great defensive duo

Is this sarcasm or did you read the chart wrong?

I thought that could be very easily taken as sarcasm since they are worst duo in the league

[gbgalla24]

May 13, 2016 12:53:37 GMT -6 SPL said:

May 13, 2016 12:14:54 GMT -6 gbgalla24 said:

The bottom chart is the ranking by position, with 1 being the best at the position and 29 being the worst at each position.

Thanks, what do the top numbers mean?

Eric could explain better, but it's something like the combined tenths of a score away from the average or something like that, with positives being good and negatives bad.

[Bankz]

How Kawhi is only a average defender in this league is beyond me... Nice build Eric

[Heebs]

May 14, 2016 9:17:27 GMT -6 Bankz said:

How Kawhi is only a average defender in this league is beyond me... Nice build Eric

Technically speaking he is a below average defender.

[20s Navidad]

Brandon Knight doe

[eric]

May 13, 2016 12:53:37 GMT -6 SPL said:

May 13, 2016 12:14:54 GMT -6 gbgalla24 said:

The bottom chart is the ranking by position, with 1 being the best at the position and 29 being the worst at each position.

Thanks, what do the top numbers mean?

So every distribution can be defined with a standard deviation. If the standard deviation is really big, it means the values are really spread out. If the standard deviation is zero, it means literally every value is exactly the same. This ranking system uses two properties to measure defense: points allowed per true shot attempt, free throw attempts allowed per field goal attempt. Because these values have different standard deviations, being .1 above average in one means a very different thing than being .1 above average in the other, so I express each difference from average in terms of that average's standard deviation or "z score".

[[Account Deleted]]

Yeah duh SPL

[eric]

no I mean to be fair I recognize that it isn't immediately obvious, I just figured that the detailed explanation I posted in the first year's worth of this data covered it. I didn't consider people only starting on the later years, so from now on I'll c/p the explanation at the beginning.

[eric]

As pioneered by 20s Navidad, I took every team's box scores and tallied them up by opponent by position. I then calculated points per true shot attempt and free throw attempts per possession, then I calculated averages and standard deviations for each stat-position combo, and finally I summed the distance from the average in terms of standard deviations for each opponent-position combo (z score). Positive numbers mean good, negative mean bad. Here are the results, first in combined tenths of z score, second as overall rank.

C PF SF SG PG team
16 2 -11 9 12 76ers
13 -2 20 8 6 Bobcats
38 10 19 4 11 Bucks
-31 13 9 6 18 Bullets
-19 -23 -10 -25 -36 Bulls
-23 -1 -2 -27 -24 Cavaliers
8 -3 0 18 -31 Celtics
5 9 -16 -2 14 Clippers
1 11 -13 -13 -31 Grizzlies
-26 -43 -24 -17 13 Hawks
6 9 18 19 19 Heat
-1 13 -2 12 -1 Hornets
31 33 19 11 23 Jazz
8 6 -12 -3 14 Kings
6 9 17 1 10 Knicks
1 -12 2 -11 15 Lakers
7 6 -2 28 -8 Magic
-5 15 27 15 -7 Nets
16 24 5 18 12 Nuggets
-14 -27 -20 -16 -15 Pacers
10 11 -10 14 2 Raptors
13 17 28 16 15 Rockets
1 -1 7 8 10 Spurs
-17 -41 -24 -24 -13 Suns
-11 -23 9 -14 -26 SuperSonics
-11 -1 -6 -12 4 Thunder
17 0 -2 2 1 Timberwolves
-8 8 0 -14 -7 Trailblazers
-32 -21 -21 -10 -10 Warriors

C PF SF SG PG team
4 16 22 10 9 76ers
6 21 3 12 14 Bobcats
1 9 4 14 11 Bucks
28 5 8 13 3 Bullets
25 25 20 28 29 Bulls
26 18 15 29 25 Cavaliers
9 22 13 3 27 Celtics
14 10 25 17 6 Clippers
16 8 24 22 28 Grizzlies
27 29 28 26 8 Hawks
13 11 6 2 2 Heat
18 6 16 8 18 Hornets
2 1 5 9 1 Jazz
10 14 23 18 7 Kings
12 12 7 16 12 Knicks
15 23 12 20 4 Lakers
11 15 17 1 21 Magic
19 4 2 6 19 Nets
5 2 11 4 10 Nuggets
23 27 26 25 24 Pacers
8 7 21 7 16 Raptors
7 3 1 5 5 Rockets
17 20 10 11 13 Spurs
24 28 29 27 23 Suns
22 26 9 23 26 SuperSonics
21 19 19 21 15 Thunder
3 17 18 15 17 Timberwolves
20 13 14 24 20 Trailblazers
29 24 27 19 22 Warriors

All Defensive First Team
C_ Brook Lopez - Bucks
PF Jusuf Nurkic - Jazz*
SF Benji Wilson - Rockets
SG Sexy Rexy Walters - Magic
PG Kenny Anderson - Jazz

All Defensive Second Team
C_ Joenas Valanciunsmith - Jazz*
PF Mystic Stone - Nuggets
SF Matthew Lockhart - Nets
SG Hawkeye Whitney - Heat
PG Anfernee Hardaway - Heat
The Jazz bigs DC was kind of all over the place this year so I'm guesstimating, but Jusuf was involved the whole year so I'm confident he's a 1st teamer. Is this finally the year for the Jazz to reach the Conference Finals? Only two Pacific cream puffs stand in their way, Dante Exum brings some much needed championship experience, let's see what happens.

Matthew Lockhart storms back after a year's absence. First player to three All-Defensive teams. Mystic Stone is probably gonna catch him but still, guy is a beast. How do you like those apples, Jeff Murray?

[dilworth]

Go Rockets

[Heebs]

Lockhart was hurt a lot last year.

Plus Jonas is a Net.