In reply to: Marina: 9-14 Overall, 3-5 from Three. Overall, posted by dillon77
Nice stuff by Em Adler of The Next on how all the Aces' starters are improving shooting/scoring-wise under Hammons more wide-open style. This is not a diss on Bill Laimbeer: he got Wilson and Cambage and used them to pound the stuffing out of most opponents. However, it was always my thought that when Options A & B were closed out (see Mercury, Phoenix), the backcourt had a hard time stepping into a style they didn't (often) play.
Now, this is primarily the first time through the opponents so the Aces are surprising everything with this push-it style. Will it hold up next time through? Can Jackie play that many minutes? We'll see.
But for now, Adler lists this:
"Becky Hammon’s squad isn't just blowing out everyone in its path — with the exception of Washington, when Las Vegas was poorly rested after flight issues. Every starter has seen their play skyrocket in the new system:
- A’ja Wilson has improved her true-shooting by 7.2%, her three-point rate by 10%, her free-throw attempt rate by 15% and increased her points per scoring attempt by 13.3%
- Kelsey Plum has improved her three-point rate by 9% and her assist rate by 4.4%
- Jackie Young has improved her true-shooting by 11.4%, her three-point rate by 27%, her assist rate by 2.2%, her free-throw attempt rate by 1.7 and increased her points per scoring attempt by 19.4%
- Chelsea Gray has improved her true-shooting by 1.9%, her three-point rate by 3%, her assist rate by 2.8% and her free-throw attempt rate by 9%
- Dearica Hamby has improved her true-shooting by 6.8%, her three-point rate by 4% and increased her points per scoring attempt by 13.3%"
Great explanation and consolidation. I'm going to assume you copied and pasted these into a spreadsheet so you could sort by column, otherwise it must be murder to organize. It's a shame the WNBA stats can't be sorted by column/stat.
Anyway, nice job, and the ND players are really showing their stuff.
Often, if you click on the column headings the stats will be sorted for that stat. I wasn't able to do that. How, for example, were you able to sort by "Assists"?
Mode where you can get Totals, Per Game, or Per 48 minutes. It then ranks the eligible players. When I did it this morning there were 55 eligible with the 7 domers. Just did it again, now only 53, as Sky has been dropped from the leaders. I just sorted it again by scoring per game where Howard is #1, but the ND 6 qualified has Arike #2, Jackie #3, Jewell #9, Marina #14, Jess #33, and Bri still last at #53.
Still you can also go to the top left hand corner and switch to General which has stats sortable by category (where you click on the column headings), but this includes a total of 144 WNBA players who have played at all this season so far. So for scoring (the link attached) it shows Howard #1, but Stewart is now #2, and all the ND players from there include #3 Arike, #4 Jackie, #10 Jewell, #12 Sky, #16 Marina, #31 KMac, #40 Jess, #107 Bri, and #115 Ace.
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, but lots of lawn to cut. Hope this helps.