Monday, January 25th, 2010...6:52 am
Matt Moore Makes Charts
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Matt Moore, the mad genius at the helm of Hardwood Paroxysm, has created at least two charts that should arrest your attention. Here’s the first:
If you’re wondering, Matt provides an explanation at HP. It’s actually the second chart, not pictured here, that suggests a couple tweaks to the rotation. Interested yet? Follow the link.
12 Comments
January 25th, 2010 at 7:50 am
What tweaks do you think the second chart suggests?
To me the chart is non-controversial: it says that Richard Jefferson is under-performing, Ian Mahinmi played really well in that one game, and efficiency stats love Matt Bonner.
Any other conclusions are tenuous.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:51 am
I believe there is something wrong with the Spurs chart. Marcus Haislip looks like having a lot of USG, which is false.
My guess is that the labels are one off!
January 25th, 2010 at 7:54 am
I didn’t really need a reminder, but this just proves how great Timmy is. How lucky we are to watch him on a day to day basis.
As we all kind of expected, Manu is Manu. And if we all needed more reasons to want Blair playing, this sure helps. I know the sample size is a little small for Mahinmi, but why can’t Pop find a few more minutes for him. His PER is off the charts compared to his Usage.
Tony….yikes. I knew he was injured and not playing as well as in the past, but that was shocking to me. I didn’t realize it was that bad. This makes me wonder if making a trade for another PG wouldn’t be a bad idea.
And so much for the impact we thought the additions of RJ and Bogans would have. I know we can’t not play RJ, but hopefully Bogans will be limited as Finley and Bonner get healthy.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:57 am
I’m not sure what to make of these charts, but they sure are interesting to look at!
(@Martin, USG is skewed by heavy usage during limited minutes, I think the labels are correct)
January 25th, 2010 at 8:00 am
Just to clarify my comment, I meant a backup PG to help Tony or even allow him to rest. Not getting rid of Tony.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:43 am
Martin, the labels are not off:
http://www.hoopdata.com/advancedstats.aspx?team=SAS&type=pg&posi=%25&yr=2010&gp=0&mins=0
Haislip averages 4.2 minutes, but in 10 games has shot 21 times from the floor and five free throws. Dude’s not gun shy.\
Thanks for reading.
-Matt from HP
January 25th, 2010 at 10:29 am
@Matt Moore: I see it now, I thought USG was related to something else. My Bad. BTW, it is a great analysis, I love these type of statistical analyses on the game, a cruncher myself I really appreciate this work.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
The charts were enlightening to say the least. It clearly seems like Tony needing to get healthy/more effective is what is really holding us back. RJ is fair, but $16 million for fair doesn’t compute. Bonner is effective for his usage and Ian needs more burn because these show him as effective but only more playing time will confirm or disprove that. That is unless the FO is scared to disprove that….
January 25th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I really like these charts. I’ve seen some of them before, and the 2nd one with the PER overlay is really telling.
Free Mahinmi!
January 25th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
It’s just gotta be the sample size with Mahinmi’s PER/USG.
Tim is simply a dominant player. Still. Straight incredible.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:12 am
I think it would be interesting to see a third set of charts that had Usage per minute vs PER or even a fourth with PER/Usage as a single display.
Overall I think these comparisons benefit defensive rebounders though since it boosts your PER without boosting your usage.
January 26th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Matt Bonner sucks? How about Matt Bonner is awesome, says your chart. He’s one of the few Spurs who fits on the offensive side of the court with Tim and any combination of Tim/Manu/Hill, and if you want to criticize his defense you still have to compare him to Dejuan Blair and Micheal Finley until a plausible trade comes along. To defend the-big guy tim is not defending- he’s honestly the best option we have available. ouch.
For my 2 cents, I would have liked to have seen minutes as well on the charts. It’s hard to mentally edit out the deep-bench players and their noisy data if you don’t know the teams so well.
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