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 17:
Milwaukee Bucks
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Giannis Antetokounmpo is ranked first in the league in the following stats: Field goals (623), two-pointers (540), defensive rebounds (653), PER (31.6), usage (37.4%), defensive rating (96.3), defensive win shares (4.8), win shares per 48 minutes (.282), box plus/minus (11.5), defensive box plus/minus (4.0).
- Giannis Antetokounmpo is fouled on 20.5% of his shot attempts -- the 93rd percentile for bigs. He also draws a non-shooting foul on 4.3% of team plays, which is in the 99th percentile.
- George Hill has the NBA's best three-point percentage (48.0). That's helped fuel his 134.1 points per 100 shot attempts, which is in the 100th percentile for combo guards. He's also shooting 68% at the rim -- in the 95th percentile.
- George Hill has the third-best offensive rating (131.6) in the NBA.
- Brook Lopez has the second-most blocks (149) in the league.
- Brook Lopez's 107.5 points per 100 shot attempts is only in the 22nd percentile for bigs.
- Khris Middleton has the NBA's third-best free-throw percentage (90.8).
- For forwards, Khris Middleton is in the 90th+ percentile in usage (26.2%), points per 100 shot attempts (125.1) and assist rate (19.9%).
- Donte DiVincenzo has the league's seventh-highest steal rate (2.7%).
- 48% of Khris Middleton's shot attempts come from the mid range -- the 96th percentile for forwards. He hits them at a 52% clip, which is in the 99th percentile. He has just 74 made shots at the rim and 26 made shots from the corner this season.
- Pat Connaughton is shooting 69% at the rim, which is in the 91st percentile for wing players.
- Eric Bledsoe is fouled on 13.5% of his shot attempts -- in the 91st percentile for point guards.
- Donte DiVincenzo averages 7.6 rebounds per 36 minutes.
- Pat Connaughton has the worst point differential (-11.6) on the Bucks of anyone that's seen at least 200 minutes.
- The Bucks score an extra 8.8 points through putbacks per 100 misses when Donte DiVincenzo is on the court.
- Opponents score 10.0 fewer points per 100 halfcourt plays with Giannis Antetokounmpo on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 96th percentile.
- Out of all Bucks lineups that have seen at least 100 possessions together, the best is the starting five -- Eric Bledsoe, Wesley Matthews, Khris Middleton, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Brook Lopez -- and has a +19.3 net rating. The worst is -4.2 and replaces Bledsoe with Donte DiVincenzo.
- With Giannis Antetokounmpo at center, the Bucks have a +21.7 net rating in a 418-possession sample.
- Bucks small-ball lineups -- no Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez, Giannis Antetokounmpo, DJ Wilson, Ersan Ilyasova -- have a +31.1 net rating in a 71-possession sample.
- Lineups with both Eric Bledsoe and George Hill on the court have a +20.5 net rating.
- The Bucks have the best point differential in the NBA (+11.2) and the league's best defense (102.3).
- On the road against top-10 teams, the Bucks have the worst offense (100.4 points per 100 possessions). However, they have the best defense (104.3), balancing out to a -4.0 net rating, which is the 10th best.
- Since the All-Star break, the Bucks have the seventh-worst offense (110.0).
- The Bucks are the third-worst offensive rebounding (22.7%) team in the NBA.
- The Bucks shoot 67.3% at the rim (third best in the league) and 48.9% from the long mid-range (best in the league).
- Opponents shoot only 29.3% of their shots at the rim against Milwaukee -- the fewest in the NBA. They also shoot the worst percentage (54.7) from that range.
- 19.1% of Bucks possessions start with a transition play -- the highest rate in the NBA.
- Opponents add only 13.2 points through putbacks per 100 misses against the Bucks -- the lowest mark in the league.
- Donte DiVincenzo is the 95th-best fantasy player in just 23.1 minutes per game in terms of total production in eight-category leagues.
- Giannis Antetokounmpo has 174 dunks this season.
