Big-wave surfers build lung capacity by holding a large rock, sinking to the bottom of the ocean, and running short distances on the ocean floor. Korver and four friends decided to go back to the Channel Islands, find an 85-pound rock, and run a collective 5K holding the thing underwater.4 Each participant would dive down, find the rock, run with it as long as he could, and drop it for the next guy to find. Those waiting their turn wore weight belts and tread in water between five and 10 feet deep.

It took five hours. “We were honestly worried about blacking out,” Korver says. They were also worried about sharks.5

“He wants to turn over every stone, and try every possible thing that might make him better — as a player and a person,” Elliott says.

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:So much smart, science and dedication to make the game we love what it is today.

http://grantland.com/features/kyle-korver-nba-atlanta-hawks/

let me guess... it praises what a valuable advanced stat weapon he is because he shoots the three at such a high percentage, like above 44%?

No, it's much more than that. It's written by Zach Lowe and right now he has no peer when it comes to writing about basketball, IMO.

fishmike wrote:

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:So much smart, science and dedication to make the game we love what it is today.

http://grantland.com/features/kyle-korver-nba-atlanta-hawks/

let me guess... it praises what a valuable advanced stat weapon he is because he shoots the three at such a high percentage, like above 44%?

nothing negative about Melo in the article so I understand your lack of interest.

LOL

The gurus at Stats LLC, the company behind the SportVU cameras, have developed two previously unreleased metrics designed to measure the amount of attention an offensive player gets from defenders when he doesn’t have the ball.

The first, dubbed “gravity score,” measures how often defenders are really guarding a particular player away from the ball. Korver had the fourth-highest score, behind only Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and Paul George. The second — “distraction score” — is a related attempt to measure how often a player’s defender strays away from him to patrol the on-ball action. Korver had the lowest such score in the league.1

Interesting.

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:So much smart, science and dedication to make the game we love what it is today.

http://grantland.com/features/kyle-korver-nba-atlanta-hawks/

let me guess... it praises what a valuable advanced stat weapon he is because he shoots the three at such a high percentage, like above 44%?

No, this would be stating the obvious.
What I loved was the notion of gravity / distraction score. That really amazed me, and I'd dare to say this is the future of our sport.

And if we wanted to loop back to Melo, I would be curious to know how he fares. Although some of you know I'm not crazy about his game, the guy is double team magnet and I'm pretty sure his gravity score would be pretty high.

Good for Kyle, very happy an article like this showers praise on his value to this game

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:So much smart, science and dedication to make the game we love what it is today.

http://grantland.com/features/kyle-korver-nba-atlanta-hawks/

let me guess... it praises what a valuable advanced stat weapon he is because he shoots the three at such a high percentage, like above 44%?

No, this would be stating the obvious.
What I loved was the notion of gravity / distraction score. That really amazed me, and I'd dare to say this is the future of our sport.

And if we wanted to loop back to Melo, I would be curious to know how he fares. Although some of you know I'm not crazy about his game, the guy is double team magnet and I'm pretty sure his gravity score would be pretty high.

yes the players are bigger and the court is summarily smaller so stretching the floor is becoming a skill or a consequence of a skill which is a very high 3pt%. i think even 40% from 3 is not necessarily going to warrant close off-the-ball guarding and ball denial. but once you get up around 44% from 3 then you have a real problem on your hands.

RKPLAYER		GP	PPG	3PM	3PA	3PM	3PA	3P%	2PM	2PA	2P%	PPS	FG%
1	Korver, ATL	71	12.0	2.6	6	185	392	.472	104	217	.479	1.40	.626
2	Prigioni, NY	66	3.8	1.0	2	65	140	.464	23	51	.451	1.32	.631
3	Miller,	MEM	82	7.1	1.3	3	107	233	.459	106	210	.505	1.31	.602
4	Morrow	NO	76	8.4	1.2	3	88	195	.451	150	325	.462	1.22	.542
5	Calderon DAL	81	11.4	2.4	5	191	425	.449	150	323	.464	1.24	.584
6	Farmar	LAL	41	10.1	1.7	4	70	160	.438	81	204	.397	1.14	.511
7	Belinelli SA	80	11.4	1.6	4	126	293	.430	211	402	.525	1.31	.576
8	Afflalo 	73	18.2	1.8	4	128	300	.427	336	711	.473	1.32	.522
9	Mills, SA	81	10.2	1.7	4	135	318	.425	174	348	.500	1.24	.565
10	Curry GS	78	24.0	3.3	8	261	615	.424	391	768	.509	1.35	.566

So 44% is the number?

mreinman wrote:

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:So much smart, science and dedication to make the game we love what it is today.

http://grantland.com/features/kyle-korver-nba-atlanta-hawks/

let me guess... it praises what a valuable advanced stat weapon he is because he shoots the three at such a high percentage, like above 44%?

No, this would be stating the obvious.
What I loved was the notion of gravity / distraction score. That really amazed me, and I'd dare to say this is the future of our sport.

And if we wanted to loop back to Melo, I would be curious to know how he fares. Although some of you know I'm not crazy about his game, the guy is double team magnet and I'm pretty sure his gravity score would be pretty high.

yes the players are bigger and the court is summarily smaller so stretching the floor is becoming a skill or a consequence of a skill which is a very high 3pt%. i think even 40% from 3 is not necessarily going to warrant close off-the-ball guarding and ball denial. but once you get up around 44% from 3 then you have a real problem on your hands.

RKPLAYER		GP	PPG	3PM	3PA	3PM	3PA	3P%	2PM	2PA	2P%	PPS	FG%
1	Korver, ATL	71	12.0	2.6	6	185	392	.472	104	217	.479	1.40	.626
2	Prigioni, NY	66	3.8	1.0	2	65	140	.464	23	51	.451	1.32	.631
3	Miller,	MEM	82	7.1	1.3	3	107	233	.459	106	210	.505	1.31	.602
4	Morrow	NO	76	8.4	1.2	3	88	195	.451	150	325	.462	1.22	.542
5	Calderon DAL	81	11.4	2.4	5	191	425	.449	150	323	.464	1.24	.584
6	Farmar	LAL	41	10.1	1.7	4	70	160	.438	81	204	.397	1.14	.511
7	Belinelli SA	80	11.4	1.6	4	126	293	.430	211	402	.525	1.31	.576
8	Afflalo 	73	18.2	1.8	4	128	300	.427	336	711	.473	1.32	.522
9	Mills, SA	81	10.2	1.7	4	135	318	.425	174	348	.500	1.24	.565
10	Curry GS	78	24.0	3.3	8	261	615	.424	391	768	.509	1.35	.566

So 44% is the number?

that's what i am looking at when it comes to specialists, yes.

if they also have a good usg:ast ratio that is a big plus.

Dagger wrote:

mreinman wrote:

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:

dk7th wrote:

raven wrote:So much smart, science and dedication to make the game we love what it is today.

http://grantland.com/features/kyle-korver-nba-atlanta-hawks/

let me guess... it praises what a valuable advanced stat weapon he is because he shoots the three at such a high percentage, like above 44%?

No, this would be stating the obvious.
What I loved was the notion of gravity / distraction score. That really amazed me, and I'd dare to say this is the future of our sport.

And if we wanted to loop back to Melo, I would be curious to know how he fares. Although some of you know I'm not crazy about his game, the guy is double team magnet and I'm pretty sure his gravity score would be pretty high.

yes the players are bigger and the court is summarily smaller so stretching the floor is becoming a skill or a consequence of a skill which is a very high 3pt%. i think even 40% from 3 is not necessarily going to warrant close off-the-ball guarding and ball denial. but once you get up around 44% from 3 then you have a real problem on your hands.

RKPLAYER		GP	PPG	3PM	3PA	3PM	3PA	3P%	2PM	2PA	2P%	PPS	FG%
1	Korver, ATL	71	12.0	2.6	6	185	392	.472	104	217	.479	1.40	.626
2	Prigioni, NY	66	3.8	1.0	2	65	140	.464	23	51	.451	1.32	.631
3	Miller,	MEM	82	7.1	1.3	3	107	233	.459	106	210	.505	1.31	.602
4	Morrow	NO	76	8.4	1.2	3	88	195	.451	150	325	.462	1.22	.542
5	Calderon DAL	81	11.4	2.4	5	191	425	.449	150	323	.464	1.24	.584
6	Farmar	LAL	41	10.1	1.7	4	70	160	.438	81	204	.397	1.14	.511
7	Belinelli SA	80	11.4	1.6	4	126	293	.430	211	402	.525	1.31	.576
8	Afflalo 	73	18.2	1.8	4	128	300	.427	336	711	.473	1.32	.522
9	Mills, SA	81	10.2	1.7	4	135	318	.425	174	348	.500	1.24	.565
10	Curry GS	78	24.0	3.3	8	261	615	.424	391	768	.509	1.35	.566

So 44% is the number?

In that case next time we play Golden State we better sag off Steph Curry! He's only shooting 42.4%, let him take 3's all day!

is curry a specialist like korver and miller and novak? no. read more closely!