Fun information. Two pieces of context that I think are interesting to add:
1) Miami runs the most zone in the league by far; Portland and Miami are both top-10 in possessions where they press, per Synergy
2) Portland and Miami both are rather middling defenses. Again, we're dealing with small samples here, but I would've expected the best defenses to rank better here. Might be related to point 1, but I don't have a good way to disentangle those.
the zone component totally makes sense to me. it forces the offense to take an extra beat to figure out what to do next
as to your second point, i think the blazers are just pursuing a high variance style of defense that doesnt makes sense for most teams. they look to force turnovers and shot clock violations because if they just sit back the offense will get whatever they want
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Fun information. Two pieces of context that I think are interesting to add:
1) Miami runs the most zone in the league by far; Portland and Miami are both top-10 in possessions where they press, per Synergy
2) Portland and Miami both are rather middling defenses. Again, we're dealing with small samples here, but I would've expected the best defenses to rank better here. Might be related to point 1, but I don't have a good way to disentangle those.
the zone component totally makes sense to me. it forces the offense to take an extra beat to figure out what to do next
as to your second point, i think the blazers are just pursuing a high variance style of defense that doesnt makes sense for most teams. they look to force turnovers and shot clock violations because if they just sit back the offense will get whatever they want
Is the data excluding “garbage time”? (shot clock violations. )
POR is a team with a lot of “garbage time.
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https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=712&GameID=0022400210&Season=2024-25&flag=1&title=Grizzlies%20Turnover%3A%20Shot%20Clock%20(T#23)
No, but even when you remove those end of game violations time Portland would still be #1
We gotta talk about all the turnovers. Per the eye test we(Portland) match up well with the top teams except in turnovers where we do horribly.