After 20 games played, Anthony Davis travels with 16.7% from the arc attempting over two triple average per game: no one has ever done worse than him in the history of the league, with numbers that condemn the Lakers to offensive mediocrity. AD’s jumper does not work, it never hits the target: this is the main criticality of an increasingly uphill season that the yellow-violet must resolve as soon as possible
A roster that has many veteran contracts added to the minimum (10, two thirds of the team), a rotation completely to be invented (12 newcomers in the last off-season) with injuries limiting the impact of some key talent for the Lakers – any reference to LeBron James is not purely coincidental. All without taking into account the average age of the group, of the regular season that leaves no room for training or experiments and of a Russell Westbrook who ended up in the eye of the storm for his questionable management of football and possessions. All right, all perhaps already heard, but the analysis on the difficult moment of the Lakers is missing an addition. A decisive step to explain the chronic difficulties of a group that struggles to win: the Los Angeles team need Anthony Davis’ baskets, who, on the other hand, is experiencing the worst period in terms of implementation efficiency of his career. Without his long shot, the Lakers can’t really think of going anywhere.
see also
Davis raises his voice: “Embarrassing, untitled”
In the swing of injuries and absences, the ex-Pelicans All-Star has played with the Lakers in 20 of 21 games played by the yellow and purple so far – traveling with 24.3 points, 10.2 rebounds and just over three assists on average. Looking at his shooting performance overall, considering his excessive physical power and enviable size, one is partly perplexed, but not entirely surprised in the negative: more than 9.5 baskets per game with 18.7 attempts. Result: 51.1% from the field. To understand, however, the dysfunctionality of his performances for the Lakers attack, it is necessary to look a little more in detail at the attempted conclusions: looking at the graphics below, it is evident that most of Davis’ targets arrive rightly near the iron. . 130 out of 191 total, with conversion rates exceeding 68%. A yield far above the NBA average, unlike what happens on the rest of the parquet: the huge red spot tells it better than any data – Anthony Davis from the middle and long distance he is literally never making a basket. A huge problem for an offense that, when fielding the starters can count on James and Westbrook on the field together and without great shooters on the perimeter, needs the No. 3 Lakers to represent a danger to the opposing defenses even when he does not put his feet in the painted.
The numbers of Davis’ disastrous shooting start: none so bad in the history from the bow
see also
Why is Melo not the owner? Vogel’s motif
After repeated missed passes in the game then lost by the Lakers after three overtime against the Kings (in which he finished 1/12 from the field when he tried a jumper), Davis became the worst shooter of the season in the entire NBA among those qualified. That is, taking into account a sample of players who have at least 150 such conclusions on the scoresheet, no one does worse than AD for efficiency – with the yellow-violet All-Star he only collects 0.71 points for each attempt. How bad is its impact? How low is his “threat” to the opposing defenses? Just look at the performance of the league’s most productive shooters (including the name of his teammate Carmelo Anthony). Below is the ranking of the best five after 40 days of regular season:
- 1st place: Patty Mills, Brooklyn Nets – 1.33 points for each conclusion
- 2nd place: Grayson Allen, Milwaukee Bucks – 1.27 points for each conclusion
- 3rd place: Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors – 1.25 points for each conclusion
- 4th place: Seth Curry, Philadelphia 76ers – 1.23 points for each conclusion
- 5th place: Carmelo Anthony, Los Angeles Lakers – 1.19 points for each conclusion
What does it all mean? That every defense when facing the Lakers in this first quarter of the season, he hopes and entices Davis to make those kinds of conclusions – so much the efficiency collapses and the retina never moves, especially when the shot starts with the feet over the arc. In fact, Anthony Davis is not a three-point shooter, even if the volume of play and the number of shots that the Lakers allow him from that area of the field suggest something else. The result obtained is the worst in NBA history on a 20-game statistical champion: AD is shooting with 16.7%, the lowest percentage ever for a player in the league traveling with at least two attempts on average. In absolute terms: Davis has shot 42 three-pointers this season and only seven times has found the bottom of the retina. Numbers that tickle the opposing defenses – a huge problem, perhaps the most important of all, that the Lakers will have to solve in the coming weeks.
.
