Data doesn't lie|Demystifying the score content of the 25 big stars: who is the king of garbage time?

As the saying goes, good steel is used on the blade. For an NBA star, the real worth scoring should obviously be more in key moments than garbage time. In this issue of "Data Don't Lie", let's explore the topic of score content. Among the top 25 stars in points per game last season, who has the highest percentage of points in key moments, and who is the king of garbage time?

1. Definition of key moments and garbage time

Before discussing the gold content of the score, we need to have a key moment and garbage time definition standard, citing the standard of the US media data website as follows -

The so-called "Garbage Game Time" includes three categories: first, the period when the first half is at least 20 points ahead or behind; Second, the period between the start of the second half and the first 7 minutes of the fourth quarter leading or trailing by at least 15 points; Third, the period when you lead or fall by at least 10 points during the last 5 minutes/overtime of the fourth quarter.

The so-called "Clutch Game Time" includes two categories: first, the first 7 minutes of the fourth quarter lead or fall behind the time period within two rounds; Second, the period when you lead or fall 5 points during the last 5 minutes/overtime of the fourth quarter.

The rest of the time is called "Normal Game Time."

2. Who has the highest percentage of key moments?

Of the top 25 stars in scoring per game, who has the highest percentage of key moments in their scores? The data shows that the answer is King's Fox. Fox averaged 25 points per game last season, 18.9 percent of which came in key moments, and he was named NBA Key Player of the Year last season.

The second and third largest percentage of points in key moments were Irving and DeRozan, who were 17.9 per cent and 16.4 per cent, respectively. They are also the only members of the 25 stars to score more than 15% of key moments. James scored 13.1 percent of key moments, ranking fifth among the 25.

If you look at the true shooting percentage in key moments, the most accurate is Durant, which reaches 67.8%, and among the 25 stars, Embiid (66.1%), Curry (65.8%), Jokic (65.1%) and Ingram (65.1%) can reach more than 65%.

So, of these 25 people, who is the star with the lowest percentage of points in key moments? The answer is the Grizzlies' Morant, who averages only 5.9 percent of his points per game from key moments. There are two stars who do not shoot 50% from the field in key moments, one is Morant (47.1%) and the other is Siakam (48.7%).

3. Who is the king of garbage time?

After looking at the score data for key moments, let's look at the percentage of garbage time scores. Among the top 25 stars per game, the player with the highest percentage of garbage time points is the Pelicans' Ingram, who accounts for 18.8% of garbage time points, and four other stars who score more than 15% of garbage time: LaVine (16.8%), Morant (16.4%), Tatum (16%) and Jaylen Brown (15.6%).

So what about the star with the lowest percentage of garbage time scores? Jazz's Markkanen, who scored just 7.2 percent of his garbage time. Of the 25 stars, only two account for less than 10% of garbage time points, in addition to Markkanen, Fox (8.7%), in addition, Durant (10.2%), Embiid (10.4%) and Randle (10.5%) are also players with a low percentage of garbage time points. James' garbage time score is 13 percent, almost in the middle of the 25 stars.

In addition, during the regular game, the player with the highest percentage of points was Randall, with 82.5%, while the player with the highest true shooting percentage in the regular game was Jokic, with 70.3%, and he was also the only star among the 25 stars to have a true shooting percentage of more than 70% in the regular game.

All of the above data can be found in the table below, and you can see the percentage of points and true shooting percentage of your favorite stars in garbage time, regular hours and key moments last season.

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