Comments on: The Defensive Stats Initiative http://www.in-the-game.org Euroleague Blog Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:29:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.6 By: sJacas http://www.in-the-game.org/the-defensive-stats-initiative/comment-page-1/#comment-11760 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:52:00 +0000 http://www.in-the-game.org/?page_id=16880#comment-11760 As far as I understand, “deflections” are only deflections that lead to a possession-change (turnover).

What I find important and what could be clearly defined and well-charted as well, are “disruptions” (?), where the defender deflects a ball out of bounds or somewhere into the field, forcing the opposing team to reset the offense (but no direct turnover).

The steals and blocks specifications all make sense and should be easy to chart, no complaints. But they’re not that ground-breaking, imo.

PPP on post ups are imo interesting, what I’d also be interested in is how many times coach sends a second defender to double team. On the other hand … would that already be too specific? After all we’re not charting that on the offensive end either.

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