Jonathan Kuminga - 85.0% free throw percentage, 23.8% free throw rate Even if you’re not a primary ballhandler, that’s an absurdly low turnover rate, especially considering how turnover-prone his teammates have been. And in 147 minutes of action he’s only turned the ball over four times. Still, he ends up with the ball in his hands a lot, and is on the roster almost entirely because of his passing ability. He’s been used exclusively as emergency depth when one of Curry or DiVincenzo is out, and when thrown on the floor he’s asked to play off ball in the motion offense. Jerome is not being asked to be the primary ballhandler that he was in college, and has been at previous stops. The Warriors certainly hope those numbers correct themselves. But he’s 2-for-5 on twos of 10 or more feet, and he’s just 6-for-30 on threes. He’s been a beast near the basket, shooting 25-for-38 at the rim, and 12-for-17 between three and 10 feet. But he sure looks like a better player when he does. Just like Draymond, the other Green isn’t on the Warriors to hit jumpers. We need a lot more than 22 attempts before we start calling him a shooter, but Green having a better three-point percentage at the end of November than Devin Booker was not on my bingo card. Admittedly it’s on low volume - his 1.2 attempts per game are tied with last season for the lowest mark since his rookie year - but it’s still encouraging. Draymond Green - 36.4% three-point shootingĭon’t look now, but Green is having the second-best three-point shooting season of his career. No one expects him to shoot 75.4% from inside the arc like GP2 did last year, but somewhere between his current mark and that mark is what the Dubs should expect of him. Compare that to 68.3% as a rookie and 56.7% as a sophomore - despite shooting twos more regularly - and it’s a bit of a troubling trend.ĭiVincenzo is a superb athlete, and there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be putting that athleticism on display cutting to the rim for easy looks like Gary Payton II did. Except he only shot 37.3% on twos last year, and 47.5% the year before. DiVincenzo is making just 46.7% of his two-pointers, which should be easy to dismiss as small sample silliness, since he’s taken just 15 such shots this year. I have a lot of faith in DiVincenzo’s ability to excel in the Warriors offensive system, and his performance in Sunday’s win was a big step in the right direction.īut something odd has happened to him lately: he’s lost the ability to score from inside the arc. Donte DiVincenzo - 46.4% two-point shooting His offensive rebounding rate is actually significantly below his career average, but his defensive rebounding rate is unlike anything he’s ever done before: he’s grabbing 19.4% of available defensive rebounds, after entering the season with a career rate of 12.3%. Interestingly, he’s doing it entirely on the defensive end. Discounting his five-game season in 2019-20, Curry has never had a rebounding rate higher than 9% in his career, but he’s all the way up to 10.9% this year. The Chef is gobbling up boards like never before. One area where it’s very easy to make that case is on the glass. In his 14th NBA season, you can make the claim that Curry is playing better than ever in many areas. If you don’t think that’s impressive, skip ahead to the Ryan Rollins section. Still, rookies are notorious for making mistakes both big and small, and it’s rather remarkable that in the first 24 minutes of Baldwin’s career, he’s avoided fouling anyone, and only committed a single turnover. This stat comes with a serious caveat: Baldwin has only played 24 minutes. And some aren’t particularly meaningful because the players have played so few minutes.īut all of them are - to me, at least - interesting. So I decided to comb through individual stats for every Golden State Warriors player, with a mission: find one unique stat for each player. We’re deep enough into the NBA season that trends are starting to emerge.
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