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2024 NBA Playoffs "Physicality Ratings"
Our game charting team has collectively watched all the playoff games, recording such novel data points as Player Falls and Knockdowns, along with relevant context and nuance. A clean, relatively objective physicality rating can be constructed with Falls+Knockdowns per 36 Minutes...

Most Physical Least Physical
12.3 - Daniel Gafford
12.0 - Lu Dort
11.9 - Joel Embiid
11.8 - Devin Booker
11.4 - Kyle Lowry
11.1 - Jalen Suggs
10.7 - Aaron Nesmith
 9.7 - Khris Middleton
 9.6 - Tyrese Maxey
 8.9 - Isaiah Hartenstein
1.8 - D'Angelo Russell
1.8 - Tobias Harris
1.9 - Sam Hauser
2.0 - Rui Hachimura
2.9 - Cason Wallace
3.0 - Tim Hardaway Jr.
3.0 - Aaron Gordon
3.0 - Austin Reaves
3.0 - Christian Braun
3.1 - Ben Sheppard

See the full stats for every player, the top ten leaderboards in a variety of categories, and more in this groundbreaking series. Which player gets a foul call the most when he falls? the answer is...


Gameplan: how to attack each team
In conjunction with our Defensive Player Ratings we take a look at how an offensive coordinator might want to gameplan for an upcoming matchup.

Brooklyn Nets
Cam Thomas
Awful one-on-one numbers...look to Iso/Post as often as possible.
Cameron Johnson
Solid defender generally (down year in '23-24), but can be beat on isolation plays and struggles chasing around curls and offball screens


Top Defensive Players
While adjusted plus/minus type ratings have become fashionable for evaluating players particularly on the defensive side, there's still many other situation specific numbers that can be of interest.

Top "On Ball" Defenders Worst "On Ball" Defenders
 .92 - Rudy Gobert
 .92 - Bam Adebayo
 .92 - Dennis Schroder
 .93 - Draymond Green
 .94 - Evan Mobley
 1.25 - Lonnie Walker IV
 1.19 - Jordan Poole
 1.16 - Doug McDermott
 1.15 - Kenrich Williams
 1.15 - Jared Vanderbilt

See the rest of the top 20/bottom 20 On Ball leaderboards and many other categories in the article, including Help+Recover...



Shawn Marion case for the Hall of Fame Shawn Marion: should he be in the basketball Hall of Fame?

Kevin Pelton of ESPN (and formerly 82games) wrote a nice article looking at candidates for the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025 and comes up with a list including Marques Johnson, Amar'e Stoudemire, Joe Johnson, Horace Grant, and...Shawn Marion. Let's take a look at the HOF credentials of... "The Matrix"



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