Ty Lawson broke the record for consecutive three-point makes without a miss when he made 10 straight threes against the Timberwolves. He would have also broken the record for most three-point makes in a game without a miss, but he missed his 11th attempt.
Tag: 2010-11 NBA season (Page 4 of 52)
It’s award season in the NBA and today I’ll take a look at the top Sixth Man of the Year candidates. Not only will I try to predict who will win the award, I’ll also discuss who should win win the award. Those are two separate questions and they may have two separate answers.
First, to narrow down the candidates, I took a look at the winners from the past 10 seasons:
| Yr | Player | TM | G | GS | GS% | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | TOT | WINS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Aaron McKie | PHI | 76 | 33 | 43% | 31.5 | 11.6 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 20.7 | 56 |
| 2002 | Corliss Williamson | DET | 78 | 7 | 9% | 21.8 | 13.6 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 18.9 | 50 |
| 2003 | Bobby Jackson | SAC | 59 | 26 | 44% | 28.4 | 15.2 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 22.0 | 59 |
| 2004 | Antawn Jamison | DAL | 82 | 2 | 2% | 29.0 | 14.8 | 6.3 | 0.9 | 22.0 | 52 |
| 2005 | Ben Gordon | CHI | 82 | 3 | 4% | 24.4 | 15.1 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 19.7 | 47 |
| 2006 | Mike Miller | MEM | 74 | 9 | 12% | 30.6 | 13.7 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 21.8 | 49 |
| 2007 | Leandro Barbosa | PHO | 80 | 18 | 23% | 32.7 | 18.1 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 24.8 | 61 |
| 2008 | Manu Ginobili | SAS | 74 | 23 | 31% | 31.1 | 19.5 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 28.8 | 56 |
| 2009 | Jason Terry | DAL | 74 | 11 | 15% | 33.7 | 19.6 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 25.4 | 50 |
| 2010 | Jamal Crawford | ATL | 79 | 0 | 0% | 31.1 | 18.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 23.5 | 53 |
Notice that all 10 winners had the following in common:
— They started fewer than 45% of their teams games.
— They averaged at least 11.6 points per game.
— They averaged at least 18.9 total points, rebounds and assists.
— They were all on teams that won at least 47 games. Eight of 10 winners were on teams that won 50+ games.
Using this criteria to narrow down the legitimate candidates for the 2011 Sixth Man award, we’re left with this list of 11 candidates. To give us a little leeway, they all started less than half of their teams games, they averaged at least 17.3 total points, rebounds and assists, and they play on teams that have at least 38 wins on the season.
I also included Efficiency Per Minute to see how productive each player is in the minutes he gets. Bigs tend to do better in this statistic because it’s easier to post rebounds than it is to register assists and big men tend to shoot at a higher percentage because they play close to the basket (so they have fewer misses, which weight efficiency down).
Watch as Prince’s shot rolls around the rim FIVE TIMES before falling though.
For an explanation of my methodology, check out my point guard post from a few days ago. Marcin Gortat was the only big man in the study that was traded and since he was traded early and played much bigger minutes in Phoenix, I just ignored his Orlando numbers.
Below is a chart of 51 big men. Why 51? Because it’s my study, that’s why. Round numbers are overrated anyway.
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For an explanation of my methodology, check out my point guard post from yesterday. The only difference with the wings is that I found a way to account for a full season of Opponent PER and Net Defense stats for those players that were traded, so we won’t see the outliers that we saw in the point guard study.
Below is a chart of the Top 52 wings in the NBA. I took the Top 48 in terms of Efficiency Per Game and then added four players (Marcus Thornton, Tony Allen, Ron Artest and Ben Gordon) that I was interested in studying. As always, click on the chart to see a bigger version.
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