Re: Luka's shot selection, I'm curious if this best reflects his athleticism decline vs. a style change that the whole league is taking. Would the same chart for the Celtics chart look very different? Is this representative of their declining athleticism?
Thanks for reading Brandon! It's a fair point and something I want to look at more widely in the future β after publishing this piece, I had a look at Anthony Edwards' performance by the same metric and he also had a drop, albeit a much less pronounced change than Luka's.
Cleaning the Glass has a similar metric for frequency of shots from different parts of the court, and also shows a player's percentile rank in each stat relative to their position.
Luka's percentile rank for shot frequency at the rim has also fallen off over this period β so that makes me more confident that this isn't just the effect of stylistic changes across the entire league.
Re: Luka's shot selection, I'm curious if this best reflects his athleticism decline vs. a style change that the whole league is taking. Would the same chart for the Celtics chart look very different? Is this representative of their declining athleticism?
Thanks for reading Brandon! It's a fair point and something I want to look at more widely in the future β after publishing this piece, I had a look at Anthony Edwards' performance by the same metric and he also had a drop, albeit a much less pronounced change than Luka's.
Coming back to this again quickly:
Cleaning the Glass has a similar metric for frequency of shots from different parts of the court, and also shows a player's percentile rank in each stat relative to their position.
Luka's percentile rank for shot frequency at the rim has also fallen off over this period β so that makes me more confident that this isn't just the effect of stylistic changes across the entire league.
Hope that's useful additional info!