Thunderlytics

Advanced stats and analysis of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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@Three_Cone Don't limit yourself to watching on TV. Pick something local and go occasionally. There are a lot of special elements of soccer that can only be experienced live. Especially if the club has a decent supporters section.

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@JacobKniffen It's pretty good.

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Wild to me people gave up on Chet because of an offensive performance in one series. Legitimately one of the best defenders in the league.

[Todd Whitehead @CrumpledJumper]

Lowest FG% allowed as the closest defender on opponent two-pointers over the last three seasons combined.

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Probably wouldn't be a major hit if we don't re-sign him on a minimum, but I'll miss our DPM king.

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Bennett Stirtz was one of the best rim finishers in college basketball and his advanced on/offs were through the roof.

Did Presti find another Ajay?

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My goodness is Mara gonna be fun as a rim protector. Wonder how often we see players just bail on drives.

Chart courtesy of Bart Torvik
Highly recommend the site.

[Krishna Narsu @knarsu3]

Put together a google sheet using @Sam_Vecenie mock draft order as well as @NikOza2 tiers combined with our @The_BBall_Index NCAA LEBRON data + offensive roles.

I would suggest checking out @NikOza2 articles on his draft board & Sam's mock draft.

https://t.co/eJrY3WhYip

[(HIATUS) 83Adebayo @83Adebayo]

OKC revamping their scouting department in 2021 to include multiple data analysts, building a 13 person-staff (reported as largest in any NBA org-most teams have 6 scouts at most) and them going 10 deep in a conference finals is a massive W for the sheets

[Krishna Narsu @knarsu3]

Caruso is shooting 32.2% from 3 over the last 2 regular seasons on 351 attempts. Over the last 2 seasons in the playoffs, he is shooting 43.9% from 3 on 155 attempts. He's actually made more 3s combined in the last 2 playoffs than he has in either the 24-25 or 25-26 reg season.

[Dean Oliver @DeanO_Lytics]

If the Thunder had won the series 3-2, Alex Caruso would be the MVP. But it's not over.

https://t.co/Cndk9nrCQh

[Charles @chuck_daniels_]

The Thunder used 29 unique lineups in non-garbage time in game 3.

No single lineup played for more than 4:45 in the whole game.

The max number of possessions for any lineup was 10.

Haven’t seen this anywhere else but it just boggles the mind honestly. Credit @NateDuncanNBA

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Yeah. This was the first thought I had when I saw the fall% stuff. You're counting how many times a player hits the floor without counting how they got there in service of a dubious postulation that you're measuring the nebulous basketball social media concept of "ethical hoops"

[Krishna Narsu @knarsu3]

To add some relevant data here: I looked at the average defender distance on each of these player's shots. Are they falling because defenders are in their air space?

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@goblore_dfs @SteveThunderfan

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SB nation, a site that got in trouble for breaching united states labor law by paying site managers around 100 dollars a month to manage their blogs, wants to lecture you on ethics.

[SB Nation NBA @SBNationNBA]

The Thunder’s dirty tricks beat Spurs in Game 2, but it didn’t look anything like basketball https://t.co/sgZAzsUj87

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Barstool wants to lecture us on ethics

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Data is in: SGA is falling to the floor at a higher frequency than every other star player during the Playoffs

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@405Fan @SBNationNBA SB nation talking ethics is hysterical.

https://t.co/ZrndB1shjm

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@TheTyJager Hate us more.

[Cranjis McBasketball @Tim_NBA]

This is an interesting concept so I took a look at our Overall Talent data to see the modal outcomes for OKC's guys compared to other rosters:

SGA, Chet, Mitchell, IHart, Wallace, JDub, Joe, JWill, & Caruso all profile as top 8 guys. That's 9 guys! Insane.

12 of their guys profile as a top 8 guy on at least 1 NBA roster.