NBA Hotzones

[maes]

Have you guys checked out this new feature of NBA.com? It's simply awesome, you can see how well any player shoots from different parts of the floor.

http://www.nba.com/hotzones/index.html? ... 006&split=

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It's amazing how they keep track of things like this. Looks like a really cool feature, not some fancy-yet-useless type thing. It would be interesting to study them and then watch a game with one of the players involved, and see what the defence gives them and if that particular game follows the same pattern as the hotzone chart shows.

EDIT: God damn, look at Dwyane Wade's...

[Amphatoast]

pretty nifty thing there. NBA Players could take note of this and see where they need to improve.

Wade lol.. freaking crazy

Dirk N. is pretty nice all around...

[debiler]

Damn, look at Shaq (2005)... He just knows what he can do.

[Anthony15]

Good find, helps players even more than people looking at it.

[Mayerhendrix]

A lot of the NBA's best players shoot pretty poorly, when you look at this. I mean most of the strongest and fastest scorers in the league only shoot in the low 20s from most spots on the court.

[Matt]

awesome feature.

the trends show that right handed players shoot significantly better pulling up from the right side of the court. Apart from Dirk who blazes away everywhere.

this shows how poor Tim Duncan is at shooting outside of 8ft.

[Carmo]

lol, Dwight Howard's is pretty funny, almost no shots outside except the 1 three point shot.

[tempo]

odom certainley has a pattern down.

[pHLo]

lol, look at Dirk...

http://www.nba.com/hotzones/index.html? ... 006&split=

awesome...

[hova-]

Actually he was the first one I took a look at, and his shooting is just amazing. Shoots so well from every spot on the court. He is at 50% for the season !!! That is just sick when you think about from where he can shoot it.
Nash is even better, but Dirk took more shots.

[DatYellowGuy]

I don't see anything, just see a court with nothing on it. And their are no players on the player list. Happens no matter what team I set it on.

[maes]

It's flash based, you may need to update your browser flash plug-in.

I was also surprised to see "great shooters" like Arenas shoot below 40% from most spots on the floor. But long range right he's just money, and he knows it and he just works that area to death, that's how he drops so many points. He avoids all his cold zones.

This really raises my impression of Nash & Dirk, both those guys are deadly from any spot on the floor, they're pure shooters.

Then you've got Kobe. The areas where he shoots the best (straight on), he avoids like the plague, preferring the wings where he doesn't shoot so well. ???

[BigKaboom2]

Obviously we could go on posting up random interesting stats from this for pages and pages, but I think it's funny that Paul Pierce is 10/12 on 3's from the left baseline and 3/10 from the right. It's also amusing that most players are terrible from 7-9 feet out.