Season team stats check

[mook]

I'll bump this as we go along this season.

Kind of shocking to see we're 2-0 with Dame and Ant shooting 30% from three.

7 guys on the team averaging over a steal per game. Two years ago we only had 3 guys who averaged at least 1 steal, and the team leader (Roco) averaged 1.4.

Nas looked better last night, and is only taking shots he's really confident in.



We've been one of the very worst assist teams, but making up for it with FTA's (mostly from Dame and Jerami). Both opponents were even worse at assists.

 

[BankTeller]

Also worth noting that game 1 was against Off-Night and even Okpala was playing well on defense after the terrible 1st quarter. Game 2 was against the DPOY runner up.

I expect to see one of Ant or Dame to go off in the backcourt vs the Lakers. Whoever-offense on Russ Sunday night.

 

[blazerfan11]

Josh Hart, 2nd on the team in assists per game, and #1 by far in assist/turnover ratio.

 

[blazerfan11]

Nassir Little leads the team in 2-point shooting percentage and steals per minute.

 

[blazerfan11]

I am already frustrated with Jerami Grant passing up 3-point shots and passing to lesser or poor 3-point shooters. Reminds me of Batum and Meyers Leonard. Why the heck is he passing to Winslow?

 

[Idog1976]

Great stats and I've been thinking our offense has been rusty and our defense lots of miscues and YET we won both games and our defense already looks lightyears better than it has since Oden was healthy (for about 5 minutes)!

 

[Wade Garrett]

I'll bump this as we go along this season.

Kind of shocking to see we're 2-0 with Dame and Ant shooting 30% from three.

7 guys on the team averaging over a steal per game. Two years ago we only had 3 guys who averaged at least 1 steal, and the team leader (Roco) averaged 1.4.

Nas looked better last night, and is only taking shots he's really confident in.

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We've been one of the very worst assist teams, but making up for it with FTA's (mostly from Dame and Jerami). Both opponents were even worse at assists.

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I'm liking the 'Steals' category.
Run Dawgs Run!!..

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Great thread. thanks.

 

[illmatic99]

Also:
ORTG: 108.6 (16th)
DRTG: 104.8 (8th)

 

[HailBlazers]

Also:
ORTG: 108.6 (16th)
DRTG: 104.8 (8th)

This. Is what I wanted to know.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

It’s really early but this should be a fun thread to follow.

 

[mook]

Interesting to see how mediocre we are at shooting threes and good at defending threes. Not typical at all for the Blazers. Lakers game contribute a lot to both, I think.



Ant's got to shoot himself out of this funk. Looks like he's still trying. Weird to have two double digit rebounders on a team as small as they are.

 

[mook]

These are Ant's game logs. When he's not hitting threes he's not really finding other ways to contribute.



Interesting that the worse he shoots threes, the more turnovers he has.

 

[PDXFonz]

Also worth noting that game 1 was against Off-Night and even Okpala was playing well on defense after the terrible 1st quarter. Game 2 was against the DPOY runner up.

I expect to see one of Ant or Dame to go off in the backcourt vs the Lakers. Whoever-offense on Russ Sunday night.

 

[OneSport3]

In Chauncey’s introductory press conference, he said that he wanted the team to shoot less 3’s. Well, here we are, 2nd to last in the league in 3PA per 100 possessions.

 

[mook]

In Chauncey’s introductory press conference, he said that he wanted the team to shoot less 3’s.

I wasn't aware of this. What was his rationale?

We're undersized most nights. We aren't going to be a team that pounds people in the middle (unless it's in transition). So that would mean trading in threes for midrange twos in the half court offense.

Phoenix had the best record last year while being 26th in 3PAs, so you can definitely win with midrange shots if your team is built for it.

It feels like we're getting up and down more this year, but funnily enough we're 18th in pace this year, about the same as two years ago.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I wasn't aware of this. What was his rationale?

We're undersized most nights. We aren't going to be a team that pounds people in the middle (unless it's in transition). So that would mean trading in threes for midrange twos in the half court offense.

Phoenix had the best record last year while being 26th in 3PAs, so you can definitely win with midrange shots if your team is built for it.

It feels like we're getting up and down more this year, but funnily enough we're 18th in pace this year, about the same as two years ago.

My guess would be that attacking the rim with perimeter players--if done well--results in an increase in free throws, which are significantly more efficient than 3s.

 

[HailBlazers]

My guess would be that attacking the rim with perimeter players--if done well--results in an increase in free throws, which are significantly more efficient than 3s.

Love ya man. But good riddance CJ.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[brooklynballer]

ORTG: 107.1 (25th)
DRTG: 104.2 (5th)

The ORTG is not surprising given how many close games they’ve played against good defensive teams. It may not improve drastically until the team gets through this murderous stretch of games. A couple of blow outs and the Blazers will jump into the Top 10 on the offensive side as well.

 

[illmatic99]

ORTG: 107.1 (25th)
DRTG: 104.2 (5th)

The ORTG is not surprising given how many close games they’ve played against good defensive teams. It may not improve drastically until the team gets through this murderous stretch of games. A couple of blow outs and the Blazers will jump into the Top 10 on the offensive side as well.

i think we'll slot in to middle of the pack in both categories around game 10, which is a win in my book

 

[brooklynballer]

i think we'll slot in to middle of the pack in both categories around game 10, which is a win in my book

If someone had told me the Blazers would finish middle of the pack in both ORTG and DRTG, I’d take it! A pretty substantial improvement from where I thought they’d be at this point.

 

[brooklynballer]

After Game 4:

ORTG: 115.0 (9th)
DRTG: 106.7 (9th)
NETRTG: +8.3 (7th)

Hopefully they can keep up the intensity on the defensive end. You knew, at some point, the offense would come alive.

 

[BankTeller]

What’s crazy to me:

You’d think we’re not shooting that well from 3 based on the first 3 games, we’re actually shooting 37%, but that’s in a 3 way tie for 13th. Seven teams above 39%, Cavs at 44%. Small sample size but holy cow has the league just gotten that crazy at shooting the ball? Steph changed the game fr.

 

[mook]

What’s crazy to me:

You’d think we’re not shooting that well from 3 based on the first 3 games, we’re actually shooting 37%, but that’s in a 3 way tie for 13th. Seven teams above 39%, Cavs at 44%. Small sample size but holy cow has the league just gotten that crazy at shooting the ball? Steph changed the game fr.

I don't think your stat takes into account the Denver game:


Still, your larger point stands. We're hitting at nearly 40% and only in 7th place! That's pretty nuts. It used to be you counted yourself lucky if you had one guy who could hit at that consistency.

Is there a tracker for deep threes? Because I feel like by the end of the year we may not lead the league in 3pt%, but we may lead the league in scoring from 30-35 feet. Dame, Ant and Sharpe all seem to have range for miles. Having multiple shooters who can spread the floor that much has got to create all kinds of driving lanes for Hart and Grant.

 

[mook]

The most astonishing number to me is our FTAs. It's a 47% improvement over last year! Portland is second in the league (and first in %).

Turns out if you swap guys like CJ, Roco, Aminu and Harkless for wings who can actually dribble the damn ball and penetrate to the rim, you can generate free throws. In years past it was Dame getting the other team in foul trouble, but then we had nobody who could really take advantage of the other team being in the penalty.

If there's one thing from these first 4 games that I think we can rely on for the remainder of the year, it's that we're going to take a lot of free throws while Dame stays healthy.

 

[illmatic99]

So some historical context....

In the month of October last year, we were 3-3.

ORTG: 110 (6th)
DRTG: 106.3 (16th)

The defense fell to 29th in November when teams started figuring us out. Hopefully we have some counters this year and our defense now is more sustainable.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Looking better after 4 games:

 

[OneSport3]

 

[SharpesTriumph]

The most astonishing number to me is our FTAs. It's a 47% improvement over last year! Portland is second in the league (and first in %).

Turns out if you swap guys like CJ, Roco, Aminu and Harkless for wings who can actually dribble the damn ball and penetrate to the rim, you can generate free throws. In years past it was Dame getting the other team in foul trouble, but then we had nobody who could really take advantage of the other team being in the penalty.

If there's one thing from these first 4 games that I think we can rely on for the remainder of the year, it's that we're going to take a lot of free throws while Dame stays healthy.

Seeing Grant get easy buckets at the rim while AD and LeBron were defending was a very welcome change. DameCJ teams had a lot of good centers with Plumlee, Ed Davis, Kanter, now Nurk. But we've had so many trash starting forwards that couldn't do anything when defense overplayed our guards. Harkless and Aminu really should be middle of the bench guys; instead of our starters for a half decade. Zach Collins and Meyers were projects that couldn't move on offense. Melo was ISO ball, too old to exploit drives, really better as a backup scoring option with defensive bench players.

If Grant and other forwards can continue to punish over extended defense it could start to make our offense extremely hard to defend.