{"id":439,"date":"2012-02-17T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/defense-has-little-control-over-opponents-3p\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:23:36","slug":"defense-has-little-control-over-opponents-3p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/defense-has-little-control-over-opponents-3p\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense has little control over opponents&#8217; 3P%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took last season&#8217;s conference-only data for every team and split it into two halves. Then I compared each team&#8217;s opponents&#8217; 3P% between the first half and second half of the conference season. I did the same for opponents&#8217; three-point attempt percentage (their percentage of field-goal attempts that are from three-point range). The following plots of that data should make it clear that opponents&#8217; three-point accuracy is largely out of a team&#8217;s control.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/assets\/Def_3P_Pct.png\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/kenpom.com\/assets\/Def_3PA_Pct.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took last season&#8217;s conference-only data for every team and split it into two halves. Then I compared each team&#8217;s opponents&#8217; 3P% between the first half and second half of the conference season. I did the same for opponents&#8217; three-point attempt percentage (their percentage of field-goal attempts that are from three-point range). The following plots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}