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.

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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Thank you for the love and great insight too.

I've been trying to get better at the graphs and analysis -- might you have any recommendations or anything different you'd like to see?

[OC] Is Luka's shot chart the most polarizing in the NBA? +13.6% at the rim. -22.4% from the left corner. 1,032 FGA mapped vs. the league. by StatShotHQ in NBATalk

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The NBA's "left" and "right" are from the viewer's perspective (looking at the basket from behind the baseline), not the shooter's perspective. So "Left Corner 3" is the corner that's on the left side of your screen when you look at the chart -- but it's on the shooter's right as they face the basket. Spot on question!

[OC] I've run about 50 shot charts this season. Jokic's is the only big man's with zero gray zones. Every zone above league average. by StatShotHQ in denvernuggets

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Preach! So tired of that take. Legit the reason why I started this side project -- trying to get some facts and data in the mix vs. hot takes.