{"id":903,"date":"2004-10-22T02:31:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T08:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/take-your-pick\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T02:31:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T08:31:57","slug":"take-your-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/take-your-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Take your pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would you rather have as your point guard&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre>          <b>TO%   A%  Pts\/40  FTA\/FGA<\/b>\nPlayer A  4.5  9.9   11.3    .292\nPlayer B  3.6  9.3   16.7    .388\n<\/pre>\n<p>TO% = percentage of possessions a turnover is committed<br \/>\nA% = percentage of possessions the player gets an assist<br \/>\nPts\/40 = Points scored per 40 minutes of playing time<br \/>\nFTA\/FGA = Free throws attempted per field goals attempted<\/p>\n<p>As I will always preach, context is important. Both of these players played on teams that weren&#8217;t very deep, but had one future NBA starter in the front court, and had a very accurate and productive perimeter shooter along side them. So the context is similar.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally I am trying to get you to say &#8220;Player B.&#8221; Mr. B scored about 50% more than player A, assisted about the same (6% less), and turned the ball over 20% less. Player B shot more free throws, so it could be reasonably assumed that his points came more in the slashing\/take-it-to-the-hole variety than the spot-up jump shot variety as compared to Mr. A. Thus B was risking turnovers more often, but he still managed to take care of the ball better. (In fairness, Player A played tougher competition.)<\/p>\n<p>Player A is 2004 Chris Duhon.<br \/>\nPlayer B is 2004 Billy Edelin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to convince me that Syracuse could be a top 5 team this season without Player B in the lineup for 30+ minutes a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would you rather have as your point guard&#8230; TO% A% Pts\/40 FTA\/FGA Player A 4.5 9.9 11.3 .292 Player B 3.6 9.3 16.7 .388 TO% = percentage of possessions a turnover is committed A% = percentage of possessions the player gets an assist Pts\/40 = Points scored per 40 minutes of playing time FTA\/FGA [&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\/903"}],"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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}