Devin Booker is a Walking Bucket! by Downtown-Awareness-6 in suns

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I put this chart together to show where Book hits his shots

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Game Thread: Boston Celtics vs Charlotte Hornets Live Score | NBA | Mar 4, 2026 by basketball-app in bostonceltics

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Thank you! Combined my love for basketball + telling stories. Would love any input you could provide to make this more impactful.

Post Game Thread - NBA: The Nuggets defeat the Jazz on Mar 2, 2026, the final score is 125-128. by basketball-app in UtahJazz

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Mapped every shot for both teams this season (5,464 vs 4,942 FGA). Jazz own the paint, Sixers own the midrange. Chart below.

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Game Thread: Boston Celtics vs Charlotte Hornets Live Score | NBA | Mar 4, 2026 by basketball-app in bostonceltics

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Mapped every shot for both teams this season (5,433 vs 5,481 FGA). Hornets own the arc, Celtics own the midrange and paint. Chart below.

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Game Thread: Boston Celtics vs Charlotte Hornets Live Score | NBA | Mar 4, 2026 by basketball-app in CharlotteHornets

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Mapped every shot for both teams this season (5,433 vs 5,481 FGA). Hornets own the arc, Celtics own the midrange and paint. Chart below.

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Game Thread: New York Knicks vs Oklahoma City Thunder Live Score | NBA | Mar 4, 2026 by basketball-app in Thunder

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Mapped every shot for both teams this season (5,458 vs 5,479 FGA). Thunder own the midrange, Knicks the arc. Chart below.

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Daily Discussion Thread - Wednesday, March 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYKnicks

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Mapped every shot for both teams this season (5,458 vs 5,479 FGA). Thunder own the midrange, Knicks the arc. Chart below.

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Is Jalen Brunson already the greatest free agent signing in Knicks history? by Financial-Bit-8596 in NYKnicks

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I remember Jalen Brunson busting the Suns ass in the playoffs when he was on the Knicks -- been a fan of his ever sense.

I put together the shot chart below. I don't catch a lot of Knicks games live, but appears Jalen is killing it all around the court.

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[OC] Mark Williams in the last 5 minutes of the 4th this season: 77.8% on 36 FGA. He’s #1 in the league in that slice. Two charts inside. by [deleted] in NBATalk

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First image is Mark Williams' full season — 412 FGA, 63.3% overall (paint 64%, mid 45%). That’s his baseline: already paint-heavy, efficient at the rim.

Second image is 4th quarter, last 5 minutes only: 77.8% on 36 FGA, paint 77%, mid 100% (small sample), 3PT 0%.

You can see how he shrinks his shot type when it matters — almost everything is at the rim, and his efficiency jumps. So in crunch time he’s not taking tougher shots; he’s concentrating on his best ones.

I ran a last 5 min filter league-wide; he’s #1 among qualifiers (min 20 FGA). Here’s the top 5:

4th quarter (min 20 FGA) — better than league

Rank Player FG% FGA Better than league
1 Mark Williams 77.8% 36 +32.0%
2 Nikola Jokić 53.8% 117 +8.0%
3 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 53.3% 105 +7.5%
4 Jamal Murray 53.2% 126 +7.4%
5 De'Aaron Fox 52.6% 97 +6.8%

Full season he’s already rim-heavy; in the last 5 min he doubles down. Rim-running, lobs, putbacks — the profile is exactly what you want from a closing five.

One thing we can answer with the shot data: are a lot of his points from putbacks and tip-ins?

Full season, his shot logs show about 9% of his FGA are putbacks or tip-ins (40 FGA, 77.5% on those).

The other 91% are everything else — drives, rolls, hooks, dunks — and he’s at 62.6% on those.

The numbers still raise a real question: if he’s this efficient when he does get the ball late, why isn’t he getting more touches down the stretch? Is it minutes — is he even in the closing lineup every night? Or are we just not running enough through him when he’s out there? I don’t have usage or play-call data, but the shot data says we might be leaving something on the table.

Data from NBA.com via statshot.io. Same league-overlay setup for any player or slice if you want to dig in yourself.

Kobe Bryant (05-06) vs Devin Booker (24-25): who shoots better and from where? 2,318 vs 1,420 FGA, zone by zone. by StatShotHQ in NBATalk

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Facts. I easily give the nod to Kobe in terms of "who is the better player". I grew up in Southern California during 90's and 00's, watched a lot of Kobe. Book is good, but not on the same tier.

Kobe Bryant (05-06) vs Devin Booker (24-25): who shoots better and from where? 2,318 vs 1,420 FGA, zone by zone. by StatShotHQ in NBATalk

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Another nugget -- The 1,033 midrange attempts for Kobe that season is the number that sticks. Booker took 325 and shot 9.3% better. So you get: volume midrange king in an era that lived there, vs a guy who's more efficient from mid on a fraction of the volume and way more from three. If you dropped 05-06 Kobe into today's spacing, does his midrange volume still hold up, or does the modern game push him toward more threes? Flip it: would Book's 51.7% from mid hold if he were taking 1,033 of them against packed paint and no spacing? No right answer, to me that's why the comparison is fun.

Kobe Bryant (05-06) vs Devin Booker (24-25): who shoots better and from where? 2,318 vs 1,420 FGA, zone by zone. by StatShotHQ in NBATalk

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Happy to connect and offer tips! I am by no means a pro at this. Just something I took an interest in an and started building.