Greek Freak Analyzed

Tag: turnovers

  • Giannis: the king of travelling

    Giannis: the king of travelling

    Hey, the kid got to learning basketball fundamentals late. Not his fault. Once again this season he is No1 in most travel violations: (These are just the ones he gets called for.)

    He has played five games less than Evan Mobley and many more minutes. If we factor in those we have this chart for Stable Travels/75

    1. Giannis Antetokounmpo 2. Jalen Johnson 3. Evan Mobley 4. Coby White 5. Vasilije Micic 6. LaMelo Ball 7. Deni Avdija 8. Tyrese Maxey 9. Zach LaVine 10. Bobby Portis (Must be infectious then!)

    But Giannis is king of many other negative stats too. Double dribbles, palming (when a player’s hand comes to rest underneath the ball and momentarily carries it instead of dribbling), offensive fouls (23 so far this season already!) and charges where he is also leading the league.

    People like to pretend these are not important, but the totals tally up to an enormous number of wasted offences which don’t appear in other statistics. While you (and Giannis) are busy talking triple doubles and just points/rebounds/assists, you seem to forget that the purpose of playing is winning. Not just looking good in certain statistics.

    Maybe look more often at advanced stats which measure more factors if you don’t understand ball, eh?

    (Suprise! Giannis appears in none of them.)

    Add on stat courtesy of Becky on Facebook, just saw it and it is relevant. Giannis last season had the 6th most goal tending violations. Given that his defensive stats are all down (especially compared to the others on this list) it is pretty worrying.

  • Is Giannis the King of the turnover?

    Is Giannis the King of the turnover?

    Again, sit and think for a second about all the times someone has said “wow, Giannis is developing his court vision lately!” or “incredible pass by Giannis!” It is a lot like his 3point shot, a creature so rare that everybody is in a buzz. “What if he started being able to do that every time?”

    Except he doesn’t. It’s like homeopathy claiming there is “new research coming soon” to prove it works. Yeah well it’s been several centuries without proof that homeopathy works. And eleven seasons of Giannis in the NBA making turnovers. And it’s getting worse, this year he is on track to break last season’s record.

    Of course he leads the NBA in turnovers for his position.

    Oh but that’s unfair. Let’s judge him in relation to the number of assists he makes, shall we? Here are the league leaders so far for this season.

    And there is Giannis.

    That is 1.69 if you don’t want to go looking for a calculator. But that isn’t even the start of Giannis problems with turnovers. 97th in the NBA this season. So why the hell is he holding the ball and bringing it down for the Bucks?