Game one is down, and it’s looking like a long 81 games are remaining. Let’s break down how the team did through the help of some post game Lakers data to get a better sense of what happened on the court Thursday. Utilizing play type data, which I give a tutorial to here for Nylon Calculus, […]
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The 25 Stats of Lakers Preseason
Six games up and six games down, and Lakers preseason is over. We had a pinch of excitement, some great surprises, a tad of disappointment, a pretty boring final game, and were left with a lot of questions. Why didn’t Kyle Kuzma score 50 points a game? How come someone scored on defensive player of […]
Lakers Preseason: 5 Data Takeaways Through 3 Games
The Lakers Preseason Offense Is Getting out in Transition at a Historic Rate Through the first three games of preseason, LA has 26.5% of its possessions coming from transition. 13.9% was the NBA average the last three regular seasons. As I spoke about before, we can typically expect that percentage to drop 1.28% once we […]
Lakers Signings: Bogut Offensive Data Dive
The waves coming in and out at the beach. A sunset. Steph Curry shooting jump shots. These are all pretty things. Andrew Bogut’s offensive Synergy profile? Not so much. Bogut played 26 games last season for the Dallas Mavericks. He didn’t have big minutes or play a ton of games, but he had 944 touches […]
Thursday Links: Summer gets Rough while Analytics get Going
The Summer Lakers were eliminated from the Las Vegas Summer League Playoffs on Wednesday after falling to the Dallas Mavericks 88-86. One would not be wrong to consider the team’s showing in Las Vegas quite disappointing. Be it the Russell turnovers, Randle’s rust, or an overall lack of chemistry, the talented group just wasn’t the cohesive unit we had hoped it […]