imagine trying to still fight against 18-7-4 at 35 and has not played in a year.
ITS FINE! get the G league player in please...ohhh or the horse either or would do
im gonna try and not be condescending right now. here we go.
scoring points is good. but you cant just look at total points in a vacuum. every shot taken is a possession spent that could have been used in a different way. every turnover is also a possession spent. there's an opportunity cost. so a simple way to look at it is to add up possessions used and add up points.
anthony had 15 field goal attempts, thats 15 possessions. he had 4 free throw attempts. thats 2 possessions. he had 3 turnovers. thats 3 possessions.
15+2+3 = 20. so thats 20 possessions used by carmelo anthony and he totaled 18 points. 18/20 is 0.90 points per possession. so now lets get some context. is that good or bad?
Dallas currently averages 1.15 points per possession, thats first in the league.
Portland averages 1.08, thats 13th.
Memphis and Chicago both average 1.03, tied for last place.
So Carmelo's efficiency tonight was significantly behind the worst offenses in the league. You might be thinking, thats less than two tenths of a point who cares. But Portland averages 107 possessions per game. So the difference between a normal Portland possession and a Carmelo possession tonight works out to about 20 points per game. That's huge. That means that every time Carmelo used a possession the team was falling farther behind.
18-7-4 doesn't mean anything without context.
