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Ochai is Him

Both our young rookies (Ochai & Walker) are quite unusual for rookies as they very rarely make a dumb play, or try to "overdo" anything. However, Olynyk more than makes up for both of them on his own...
 
Found an interesting stat nugget about Ochai from last season. This is opponent 3PT% against you as the closest defender. Ochai was #1 in the NBA with minimum 100 reps as the closest defender, and had a 25.8% completion percentage against with opponents shooting almost 10% below their average.

Kinda interesting to see if this was an outlier as these types of stats are not necessarily the most reliable (e.g. they dont tell how close they were or whether they were primary defenders or help defenders scrambling in etc)

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HermanG said:
Found an interesting stat nugget about Ochai from last season. This is opponent 3PT% against you as the closest defender. Ochai was #1 in the NBA with minimum 100 reps as the closest defender, and had a 25.8% completion percentage against with opponents shooting almost 10% below their average.

Kinda interesting to see if this was an outlier as these types of stats are not necessarily the most reliable (e.g. they dont tell how close they were or whether they were primary defenders or help defenders scrambling in etc)

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when you check the other dudes on the list, all very good defenders, it seems it could be at least somewhat legit.
 
Honestly wasn't super impressed in summer league but maybe the team was asking him to do things that were outside his comfort zone.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
when you check the other dudes on the list, all very good defenders, it seems it could be at least somewhat legit.
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My two cents on this number....doesn't mean much. There is always a "closest defender", but the large majority of three point attempts are open or wide open to begin with. I suppose that even being "open" or "wide open" can be different depending on the guy trying to close out on the shooter, but I'd mostly just chalk this up to variance/luck.
 
seattlejazzfan said:
when you check the other dudes on the list, all very good defenders, it seems it could be at least somewhat legit.
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Yeah that was my initial feeling as well.

Also went to check if some Tuber has noticed and this guy quoted the same stat (albeit he had different totals) and added that according to Second Spectrum, he has the 2nd lowest pass-by rate with 14.7%.


View: https://youtu.be/szeB7egGjvw?si=JAWbVL_McqZbIEYq
 
KqWIN said:
My two cents on this number....doesn't mean much. There is always a "closest defender", but the large majority of three point attempts are open or wide open to begin with. I suppose that even being "open" or "wide open" can be different depending on the guy trying to close out on the shooter, but I'd mostly just chalk this up to variance/luck.
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Check the video above. I dont have access to Second Spectrum stats but they said he contested 195 of the 203 shots where he was the closest defender.

That speaks of tremendous awareness and seems to indicate that his 3P% impact was legit.
 
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