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Synergy Recap: Golden State Warriors vs. New York Knicks (12-28-11)

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The Warriors pulled out a surprising win over the Knicks last night. It was surprising for several reasons, including playing without the injured Stephen Curry, facing a Knicks team carrying rather lofty expectations after the addition of Tyson Chandler, and having a lackluster offensive performance in the first half (to say the least). But they got it done. In the immortal words of Mark Jackson,

THIS IS A NO EXCUSES BASKETBALL TEAM.

Click after the jump to dig into the Synergy numbers (now featuring MORE NUMBERS).

12/28/11 NYK @ GSW

This game featured a lot of ISO plays, over 20% for both teams compared to averages around 15% last season for each. While our ISO efficiency wasn't great at 0.80 PPP, we held the Knicks to a woeful 0.63 PPP. We held the Knicks to only 8 POST plays at 0.75 PPP, and our POST efficiency (0.92) was well above last year's 0.76 average. While we got 8 easy CUT plays (typically the highest efficiency type of play), the Knicks could only manage 2, and made neither. Finally, we killed the Knicks with more efficient SPOT plays (0.96) and holding their SPOT efficiency way down (0.62). All this added up to a nice win.


GSW

NYK

%TIME

#PLAYS

PPP

%TIME

#PLAYS

PPP

ALL

100.00%

99

0.94

100.00%

94

0.80

BALL

8.10%

8

0.63

8.50%

8

0.50

CUT

8.10%

8

1.50

2.10%

2

0.00

HAND

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.30%

5

1.00

ISO

20.20%

20

0.80

20.20%

19

0.63

OTHER

7.10%

7

0.43

3.20%

0

0.00

POST

12.10%

12

0.92

8.50%

8

0.75

REB

5.10%

5

1.60

3.20%

3

1.67

ROLL

4.00%

4

1.50

3.20%

3

1.33

SCREEN

N/A

N/A

N/A

2.10%

2

2.00

SPOT

24.20%

24

0.96

22.30%

21

0.62

TRANS

11.10%

11

0.82

21.30%

20

1.10

Reference

2011 Offense

OFFENSE

GSW

NYK

%TIME

PPP

%TIME

PPP

ALL

1.000

0.95

1.000

0.97

BALL

0.137

0.88

0.120

0.85

CUT

0.074

1.19

0.062

1.21

HAND

0.022

0.99

0.058

0.92

ISO

0.140

0.85

0.153

0.89

OTHER

0.066

0.39

0.062

0.47

POST

0.066

0.76

0.049

0.96

REB

0.061

0.98

0.056

1.08

ROLL

0.052

0.96

0.051

1.09

SCREEN

0.046

0.86

0.033

0.96

SPOT

0.202

1.05

0.223

1.03

TRANS

0.134

1.20

0.134

1.13

2011 Defense

DEFENSE

GSW

NYK

%TIME

PPP

%TIME

PPP

ALL

1.000

0.92

1.000

0.92

BALL

0.090

0.78

0.110

0.83

CUT

0.085

1.21

0.076

1.21

HAND

0.021

1.01

0.020

0.94

ISO

0.106

0.88

0.124

0.87

OTHER

0.076

0.40

0.072

0.45

POST

0.099

0.91

0.119

0.89

REB

0.064

1.07

0.059

1.09

ROLL

0.039

1.02

0.041

1.07

SCREEN

0.047

0.94

0.044

0.92

SPOT

0.191

1.02

0.172

1.07

TRANS

0.138

1.17

0.119

1.14

Here are the league average efficiencies from last season. You can use these to compare the values in the tables above. Blue line represents GSW's average.

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Here are the league average rates (% of time each play was run) from last season. GSW is in blue.

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