Hendo8888
Years ago
What FG% overrides a good score by a player?
Random thought...
At what point does a bad Field Goal percentage override a good point total by a player.
Say, they score 30 points in a game, but shoot 35% from the field and take 30 shots, should that be considered a good game?
This isn't necessarily a Kobe bashing post, but he's leading the league in ppg (26.7), shooting under 40% and averaging 24 shots a game. Less than 30% from 3. Melo is another who is basically averaging a shot per point (20.1fga/g for 20.3ppg). They are top 2 for fga/g. There's only a handful of players in the top 50 for ppg who are shooting under 40%, Kobe and Melo being 2 of them. Interesting thing to note is that players seem to either average under 40% or above 42.5%. Very few fall in between that bracket who score well.
If someone can put up 30, does that excuse them for missing 3/5 of their shots? Or are they doing more damage than good to get those points?
As far as NBL goes, there's only 2 players in the top 25 (less players, so smaller sample size) shooting under 40%. Wilson and Ervin.
40% seems to be a bit of a cut-off point that the vast majority of players can achieve. The absolute elite % line is 50/40/90 that very few hit. Is there a lower % that should be considered equally bad? Like 40/30/75? Out of interest, Kobe only shoots 77.1% for FT too, so is pretty close to hitting that trifecta. Melo is below each category with 39.1/30/73.
Thoughts? This has probably been covered before, but I haven't seen it, so apologies if it has.
