With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day 10:
Golden State Warriors
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Ky Bowman and Jordan Poole are both sub-11th percentile in points per 100 shot attempts for their respective positions. Bowman is at 98.0 and Poole is at 91.6.
- Marquese Chriss' 14.7% assist rate is in the 90th percentile for bigs.
- Marquese Chriss has the highest win shares per 48 minutes (.136) on the Warriors.
- The Warriors score 20.9 more points per 100 transition plays with Marquese Chriss on the court, which is a difference that ranks in the 95th percentile.
- Damion Lee is assisted on 85% of his made baskets, one of the highest rates for a combo guard in the league (97th percentile).
- Damion Lee has the highest point differential (+7.8) of any Warriors player with 400+ minutes played.
- Damion Lee has spent significant time at point guard (26% of minutes), shooting guard (65%) and small forward (9%). The Warriors are most effective when he's at point guard, with a -2.6 net rating.
- Draymond Green has been assisted on all 36 of his three-point makes.
- When Draymond Green is on the court, the Warriors force opponents to take 2.4% more long mid-rangers -- a difference that ranks in the 95th percentile.
- As a member of the Warriors, D'Angelo Russell took just 8% of his shots at the rim -- the second percentile for combo guards. However, he converted 73% of them, which is in the 100th percentile.
- With the Warriors, D'Angelo Russell made 51% (59-of-116) of his long mid-rangers, ranking in the 92nd percentile for his position.
- Eric Paschall takes 16% of his shots from the long mid-range -- the 91st percentile for bigs.
- Eric Paschall blocks just 0.3 blocks per 36 minutes.
- Eric Paschall has 31 lost-ball turnovers -- the most on the Warriors.
- Eric Paschall has had 54 of his shots blocked -- the most on the Warriors by a margin of 19.
- Eric Paschall has the worst point differential (-4.6) of any Warriors player with at least 400 minutes played. Opposing teams score an extra 19.8 points per 100 transition plays while he's on the court (fourth percentile).
- Out of the three positions Eric Paschall has spent time playing -- small forward, power forward, center -- the Warriors are most effective with him at small forward (-8.0 net rating).
- With Golden State, Andrew Wiggins has been fouled on 14.4% of his shot attempts -- the 91st percentile for forwards. Plus, he's made the shot on 37.9% of his attempts that he's fouled on, ranking in the 94th percentile. He also ranks in the 96th percentile in terms of non-shooting fouls drawn per 100 team plays (2.2%).
- With Golden State, Andrew Wiggins averages 1.5 blocks and 1.4 steals per 36 minutes.
- The Warriors have scored 6.5 more points per field-goal miss through putbacks with Andrew Wiggins on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 93rd percentile.
- Opposing teams shoot 4.0% better from three with Andrew Wiggins on the court -- a difference that ranks in the eighth percentile.
- With the Warriors, Alec Burks was fouled on 14.9% of his shot attempts -- the 94th percentile for wings.
- The Warriors' best lineup with at least 100 possessions played has a +33.3 net rating. It contains D'Angelo Russell, Damion Lee, Glenn Robinson, Draymond Green and Marquese Chriss. The worst is -29.2 and contains Ky Bowman, Alec Burks, Glenn Robinson, Eric Paschall and Willie Cauley-Stein.
- The Warriors have the worst point differential (-9.6) in the league. That's fueled by the NBA's worst effective field-goal percentage (50.0)
- Golden State takes the second-most mid-rangers in the NBA (36.0% of team attempts).
- Golden State has the worst non-corner three accuracy (32.6%) in the NBA.
- The Warriors have the 11th-best defensive shot profile (53.2 location eFG%) in the NBA.
- The Warriors allow opponents to shoot the highest percentage from three (39.4%).
- Golden State allows the fewest transition opportunities off of live rebounds (23.9%) in the NBA.
- Before the season, the Warriors were +950 to win the title -- the sixth-highest odds.
