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By: Hardwood Paroxysm » Blog Archive » NBA HD: Analyzing Shot Location Matchups by Team

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:09:51 +0000

[...] week, for my debut article here at Hardwood Paroxysm, I used shot location data from my mother site Hoopdata.com to see [...]

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NBA Rumors, Player Updates, and News | Empty the Bench — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:32:10 +0000

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By: Gil Meriken

Gil Meriken — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:12:28 +0000

Love this analysis! Too bad the freaking pictures are firewalled for me. But I can read, that’s fine.

It’s really neat that instead of positional matchups, we’re talking shot-location matchups. Keep it coming.

By: Harry Stevens

Harry Stevens — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:55:18 +0000

P.S. – If you want those images to turn out more clear with less little dots all over the places, save them as .png files and not .jpg files. Word.

By: Harry Stevens

Harry Stevens — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:44:17 +0000

Yo Tom,

The Yahoo basketball blog Ball Don’t Lie featured this article with the tag line: “Tom Haberstroh of HoopData.com takes a closer look at shot loactions.” So naturally I had to come check it out, and it’s a real interesting article with great research.

One thing I noticed which is interesting is that Average offensive teams shoot just about the same pct against Good defenses and Average defenses, but are significantly more efficient against Bad defenses. The same goes for Bad offensive teams. What this says to me is that it is not necessary to be a Good mid-range Defensive team. As long as you’re not straight up Bad, the Average and Bad team will perform about the same against you. (And the good team is liable to light you up regardless.)

All basketball aside, how’s everything else? Are you still at ESPN? Been back to the ‘port lately?

Hope all’s well man.

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:39:14 +0000

[...] The Lampshade: Tom Haberstroh of HoopData takes a closer look at field goal percentage from different shot locations. [Hardwood Paroxysm] [...]

By: Tom Haberstroh

Tom Haberstroh — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:27:10 +0000

So you’re saying good three point shooting teams are mostly unaffected by opposing defensive strength.

By: Matt Nolan

Matt Nolan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:23:22 +0000

I’d say your analysis on why threes are like they are is accurate although you missed another part of it.

The poor 3 shooting teams need poor 3 defending teams to be effective as a team with any semblance of defending the three limits them because their 3 point shooting requires an open look, similarly the good three point shooting teams just require that they get a semi clean look and its just as good as if it was open.