Basktball Game simulation

[Mike G]

bird, mchale, parish, and lewis combined shot better in 90-91 (52.9% eFG%) than in 89-90 (52.7% eFG%) despite a large drop in team ast/fgm of 14%. they obviously did not need alot of assists to shoot well...

Including FT, and using the standard TS%:

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Boston     1989-90         1990-91
Celtics   TS%  TSA/36    TS%  TSA/36
Bird     .546   20.4    .530   17.4
McHale   .623   18.2    .606   18.0
Lewis    .545   17.5    .540   17.1
Parish   .616   15.1    .637   14.0

total    .579   18.0    .574   16.6

Only Parish shot better in '91, and on fewer shots.
The addition of a 5th scoring threat (Gamble) should have allowed these guys to be more selective in their shots. Yet they didn't shoot better -- just less frequently.
As mentioned, Shaw and Brown shot better (and more) than DJ and Bagley had; and still, the more balanced scoring did not quite offset the dropoff in ball distribution.
Larry Bird missed 22 games in '91. Putting his .530 shooting on the bench also helped the Big 4 combined TS%.

[Mike G]

from 03-04 to 07-08 he threw for the 5th most assists in the league, and played 81% of the time for cleveland. during this time cleveland threw for assists at a rate of 58 per 100 FGM (lge avg was 59)...

yet those 5 seasons, when you factor out lebron's own shooting, the cavs were the league's worst shooting team from the floor - a 46.8% eFG% (the rest of the league was between 47.2% and 53.0% eFG%). how is this possible if assists are so important? i can understand the cavs without lebron's stats not being perhaps best in the league in shooting from the floor, but dead last/worst? what does that tell you about all those assists he threw?...

Well, somebody has to be dead last, don't they?
In '03, Cleveland shot .444 eFG%, 3rd worst in the league. This was the bunch that LeBron joined.
After he'd left, 2011, they again were 3rd worst, at .472

Poor shooters are somewhat better alongside great passers. Good shooters are also better. The amount of improvement varies by player.

Last year, .393 of Carmelo Anthony's 669 FG were assisted. That's 263 of his made shots. On these shots, he was 263/263.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... ting/2013/

On his other 1226 "possibly assisted" FGA, he connected on (669 - 263 = ) 406, for a .331 success rate.

[bchaikin]

Last year, .393 of Carmelo Anthony's 669 FG were assisted. That's 263 of his made shots. On these shots, he was 263/263.

did you actually really write this?...

[Mike G]

Well, uh, yes I did.
What to make of it? Help me out here.