Playoff Rondo

Mike G · Post by **Mike G** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:26 pm

A nice article in which even coaches who didn't like his play say nice things about Rajon Rondo.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/300 ... ajon-rondo

Anything to this recurring account of him "stepping up" in the playoffs?
Trying to get RS and PO numbers in chronological order, here's a table showing his team and playoff minutes for each year he's been in the postseason.
At the bottom is minutes-weighted difference from RS to PO for some summary stats.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/pl ... ora01.html

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year    tm    TS%    PER   WS/48   BPM
2008   Bos   .515   15.6   .150    2.1
po     831    .454   15.8   .121    3.6
2009   Bos   .543   18.8   .179    4.0
po     577    .467   19.7   .130    4.1
2010   Bos   .540   19.1   .156    3.6
po     975    .504   17.8   .131    3.9
2011   Bos   .495   17.1   .126    3.1
po     345    .509   16.7   .102    1.3
2012   Bos   .483   17.5   .121    2.2
po     810    .505   22.0   .155    6.4

year    tm    TS%    PER   WS/48   BPM
2015   Dal   .448   13.5   .037   -0.8
po      37    .475   11.6   .010   -2.0
2017   Chi   .461   13.6   .060   -0.5
po      67    .428   22.9   .146    6.6
2018   NOP   .522   15.3   .101   -0.3
po     302    .474   15.6   .082    1.1
2020   LAL   .494   12.4   .068   -1.3
po     291    .597   18.7   .178    5.1

delta  min    TS%    PER   WS/48   BPM
tot.  4235  -.022   +1.3  -.006   +1.7

This year notwithstanding, he's shot worse in playoffs, but most players do, as defenses tend to be better than avg.
BPM corrects for the competition, and +1.7 is significant.
WS/48 normally drops by about .020 in playoffs, as avg competition goes from .500 teams to .600 or so, and avg player from .100 to .080-ish.