Tiktukno: summary of today's events in sports, 7.11 (Sport1)
About three weeks have passed since the 2022/23 season started, and it seems as if the dramas don't stop.
The tables look completely different from what could be imagined, and while it is doubtful whether these trends will continue even into the decisive stages of the season, we can already rely on several interesting statistics.
Here are some of them.
* For last season he showed up a little out of shape, but Luka Doncic started the 2022/23 season with a bang.
The Dallas star is averaging 36 points, 8.8 rebounds and 8.6 assists per game so far.
If he maintains this shooting ability, it will be the eighth point average in the season, and the best since James Harden in 2018/19 (36.1).
For comparison, Michael Jordan has only one season with over 35 points per game (1986/87 - 37).
Wilt Chamberlain's record (50.3 points per game in 1961/62) will probably never be broken by anyone.
* But unlike Harden of that season, who was accurate at 44 percent from the field, the Slovenian superstar is also more efficient than ever this season, with 52.7 percent from the field - well above his career average (46).
Despite shooting more than any other player in the league (23.5 per game), Luca currently ranks 27th in field goal percentage, with the only guards above him on the list being Dearon Fox (55.5) and Shea Gilges Alexander (53.5).
All this, when he holds the highest USAGE index in the league, which determines in what percentage of attacks a certain player is involved.
Doncic is currently first with 39.3, not far from Russell Westbrook's all-time record of the 2016/17 season (41.6).
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* If he continues like this, Doncic will also break the all-time PER record.
The current record for the efficiency index invented in the United States belongs to last season's Nikola Jokic - 32.8 per game.
Doncic, meanwhile, stands at 36.7.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is also on pace for a new record, with 33.3.
* Back to Gilges Alexander.
The star of Oklahoma City has been amazing so far in his eight games, with 30.5 points per game in exceptional percentages - 53.5 from the field, and no less than 96.5 from the free throw line (55 of 57).
Jose Calderon's all-time record from 2008/09 (98 percent, 151 of 154) is unlikely to be broken, but he is currently second all-time.
* Pay attention to Nikola Jokic's numbers: the Denver star does put up typical averages of 20.3 points, 10.8 rebounds and 9.2 assists per game, but rarely throws from the field - he ranks seventh in the league in percentage (62.3, well above his career average of 54.3), But in the meantime takes only 11.8 shots per game - his least since his second season in the league.
By comparison, that puts him 77th in the league, with names like OJ Anunowi, Bobby Portis, Kris Leverett, DeAndre Hunter, Jayden Ivey, Lou Dorrett, Bojan Bogdanovich, Lonnie Walker, Dillon Brooks, P.I. Jay Washington, Kelly Oubre, Jordan Clarkson, Devin Vassell and many others all threw more than the MVP.
In fact, even on his own team Jokic ranks only third, with Michael Porter (12.6) and Jamal Murray (13.9) throwing more than him.
Even Bones Hyland (11.4) comes close to the Serbian superstar.
* Stephen Curry does make 5.1 3-pointers per game this season - much more than any other player in the league - but he will have to put in some effort to break the all-time record, which he obviously holds.
In 2020/21, scored 5.3 three-pointers per game.
5.1 registered in two more seasons.
* And unlike Steph, his linebacker partner Klay Thompson is historically due.
Only Kris Leverett (36.1) and Reggie Jackson (36.2) have so far shot at lower percentages from the field.
The shooting guard of the champion makes only 36.4 percent (5.5 of 15.1 for the evening), very far from his career averages (45.7).
In fact, he hasn't shot 42.9 percent from the field in any season so far, and the same is true for outside shooting.
Meanwhile, Clay is at 32.9, with his career average at 41.5.
* Brooklyn's Nick Claxton may break the all-time record for field goal percentage for a season.
He currently sits at 72.7 which puts him second all-time behind Mitchell Robinson's 2019/20 (74.1).
* It's likely that none of them will keep up those numbers, but right now, there are seven players who set the all-time highest shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
The record belongs to Kyle Korver in 2009/10 (53.6), and currently, he is preceded by Grant Williams (53.8), Contavius Caldwell Pope (53.8), Sam Hauser (54.8), Yuta Watanabe (57.8), Kelly Olynyk (59.3) and Josh Green (61.5).
A good word also goes to Kevin Harter, who is 51.6 percent accurate from beyond the arc, and shoots four 3-pointers per game.
* And what do you say about Mikel Bridges' impressive shooting season?
The Phoenix player so far is shooting 60.2 percent from the field (8th in the league), 50 percent from beyond the arc (8th in the league) and 85.7 from the line (41st in the league).
* Quietly, OJ Anunowi is putting up one of the best hitting seasons of all time.
Granted, it's still early, but for now, Toronto's versatile forward is grabbing 3.11 rebounds per night, which currently ranks him ninth all-time.
The record belongs to Alvin Robertson - 3.67 in the 1985/86 season.
* Before the end, the entire league: so far all 30 teams score an average of 112.8 points per game - the most in the modern era, that is, since the late sixties.
Last year, 112.1 points were scored per game.
* And we'll finish with Dani Avdia.
The only Israeli in the NBA so far records the weakest career averages in almost every statistical column - minutes (18.9, compared to 23.3 and 24.2 in his first two years), points (4.8, compared to 6.3 and 8.4), percentage from the field (40.5, compared to 41.7 and -43.2) rebounds (3.7, compared to 4.9 and 5.2), assists (1.2, compared to 1.2 and 2) and steals (0.4, compared to 0.6 and 0.7).
Only in percentages outside the arc (33.3, compared to 31.5 and 31.7 in his first two seasons) and blocks (0.8, compared to 0.3 and 0.5) is he better this season than his first two seasons in the best league in the world.
* This is, of course, among other things a lower amount of minutes, but also considering 36 minutes per game, Avdia's numbers are weak this season - 9.1 points, 7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.
For comparison, in a similar weighting in his rookie season he had 9.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists, and last year 12.4 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3 assists per game.
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