Pull-up and contested 2-pointers from at least 10 ft. from the hoop and with at least 5 seconds on the shot clock are the antithesis of analytics. Pull-up, contested, and mid-range are an efficiency-decreasing super team. These shots are particularly asinine when they are taken with enough time on the shot clock for a kickout.
To avoid repeating the phrase, “pull-up, contested, 2-pointers from at least 10 ft. from the hoop and with at least 5 seconds on the shot clock” and because we have an unhealthy interest in concocted titles for the sake of acronyms, let’s call these choices “painfully ill-advised shots” or PIS.
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Most good players don’t often choose to take PIS. James Harden had a PISS of 10%, Steph Curry had a PISS of 8.5%, LeBron James had a PISS of 8.2%, Manu Ginobili had a PISS of 5.4%, and Demarre Carroll had a PISS of 2.7%.
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DeRozan had a PISS of 31.6%. Nearly a third of his 850 shots with at least 5 seconds on the shot clock were PIS.
DeRozan shot an atrocious 33.5% on PIS. That equates to 0.67 points per shot. In all of his 2014-15 FGA, DeRozan scored 0.85 points per shot. If he simply removed those 269 PIS (kicked out instead of forcing a bad shot), he would have raised his efficiency to 0.92 points per shot on the season.
DeRozan’s team would have appreciated the kick outs. His team produced 1.02 points per shot. If his team kept that efficiency on kick outs that replaced DeRozan’s 269 PIS, the team would have scored another 93 points in DeRozan’s 60 games.
