Is There Any Way To Slow Tyrese Haliburton And The Pacers?
Key Highlights The Indiana Pacers lead the NBA in offensive rating at 124.1, three points better than the second-ranked Philadelphia 76ers (121.1) On Nov. 19, the Orlando Magic held them to their second-worst mark of the season with a 98.7 offensive ra...
Four Things With Frank: Alperen Şengün’s Scoring Leap, An Intriguing Cavs Lineup And More
Key Highlights Alperen Şengün is making a career-high 52 percent of his shots from midrange, which ranks in the 84th percentile among big men, according to Cleaning the Glass The Cleveland Cavaliers have outscored opponents by 27 points in the 25 minut...
Four Things With Frank: The Bucks’ Offense, Cade Cunningham’s Finishing And More
Key Highlights The Milwaukee Bucks are seventh in offensive rating and 12th in net rating Cade Cunningham is shooting 51 percent at the rim, which ranks in the 15th percentile among wings, per Cleaning the Glass Moritz Wagner leads the NBA in true shoo...
How The Houston Rockets Built A Top-5 Defense
Key Highlights After ranking 27th or worst the past three years, the Rockets are third in defensive rating (107.4) During their six-game winning streak, they lead the league in defensive rating (102.7) Only seven teams allow a smaller rate of shots at ...
Shaedon Sharpe’s Development Is A Massive Bright Spot For The Blazers
Key Highlights: Sharpe is averaging twice as many points this season as last year (19.8 vs. 9.9) Despite his rate of assisted makes dropping from 67 to 53 percent, his true shooting percentage is slightly better (57.2 vs. 56.8) His assist rate has jump...
Cole Anthony’s Strong Start Highlights Challenges Ahead For The Magic
Key Highlights: Anthony holds career-highs in true shooting percentage (60.6), two-point percentage (51.0), three-point percentage (42.9) and free-throw rate (51.0) A career-best 46 percent of his shots are coming off of assists Orlando needs more floo...
What Can We Make Of James Harden’s Clippers Debut?
Key Highlights: Fifteen of Harden’s 17 points came alongside bench-heavy lineups He had 54 touches, down from 93.5 per game last season The Clippers were minus-13 during the 18 minutes their starting unit played James Harden‘s NBA career ha...
Dejounte Murray Is Playing The Best Basketball Of His Career
Key Highlights: Murray’s true shooting percentage of 60.9 is a career-high Thirty-six percent of his shots are coming at the rim, his highest mark since 2017-18 The Hawks are third in offensive rating, thanks largely to Murray’s play and he...
How Real Is Tyrese Maxey’s Early Season Breakout?
Key Highlights: Maxey’s .411 free-throw rate blows past his previous career-high of .247 The Sixers are 8.6 points better per 100 possessions when he’s on the court New head coach Nick Nurse is putting him in plenty of good spots to succeed...
How Devin Vassell Can Continue Growing With The Spurs
Key Highlights: Vassell could become more aggressive as a driver and one play from Tuesday’s win exemplified how to do that Generating more efficient shots are important for his scoring development The Spurs’ rebuilding phase should allow h...