Note: Defensive pressure rate refers to the number of times a player or team uses a torso, arms, and hands to interfere with the opponent every 100 defensive opportunities, causing physical contact when a player or team defends on the outside, defends against a sideline ball, or interferes with the opponent's backcourt pass.
While the league's average defensive pressure rate this season hasn't changed much compared to last season, there are a couple of crazy defenders like Matthew Delavedova, Dennis Schroeder, and all of the Wizards' outside players. Jared Dudley is the top defensive pressuremaker, joining the Wizards from the Bucks and directly helping the Wizards move from 19th in defensive pressure last year to No. 1 in the league this season. Both DelaVedovar and Schroeder have doubled their pressure rates from last season, rising from 1.4 to over 3.0, and the duo are in the top two of all players this season.
In the vantage database, there is a data called defensive pressure rate, which refers to the number of times a player or team uses the torso, arms and hands to interfere with the opponent every 100 defensive opportunities, causing physical contact when a player or team defends outside the line, defends against the sideline ball or interferes with the opponent's backcourt pass. Although the best way to see the pressure effect of defense is to create a turnover rate, this defensive pressure rate can let us know who defends the hardest and has been trying to create opponent errors. That being said, even if you make a mistake, it doesn't mean that your defense must have caused pressure, and there are many unexpected elements of mistakes, not necessarily the result of defense. Therefore, for this type of defensive data, we must focus on looking at it, figuring out the meaning and statistical method of each kind of data, so as to be able to read the information on the defensive end more accurately.
Before analyzing the defensive pressure of individual players, let's take a look at the top 15 teams in the league in terms of defensive pressure rate.
The league average was 5.7 percent this season and 5.3 percent last season.
In terms of purity, the Hawks and Wizards' outside defenses are the most aggressive. The Hawks were second in the league last season, so it's no surprise to appear on this list. Wizards, on the other hand, are different.
In the offseason, the Wizards reached a consensus that they decided to play a fast offense in the new season, on the one hand, to taste the sweetness of last year's small lineup sweeping the Raptors, on the other hand, they have a fast attack machine like Wall. Similarly, their defensive philosophy has changed. Because if you want to get faster attack opportunities more often, you have to improve your defensive pressure and find ways to make more mistakes. After all, live ball mistakes are easy to get an opportunity in the case of the opponent's unstable foothold, and it is easier to score in a quick attack.
This change in strategy is also easy to see from the data set. The Wizards are at the top of the league at 7.9 percent defensive pressure this season, compared to just 5.0 percent last season, the league's 19th. Similarly, the Wizards' active turnover rate last season was 10.5 percent of the league's 23rd and 11.3 percent this season, rising to no. 4 in the league.
Another notable move in the Wizards offseason was Jared Dudley, who ranked second in the league in defensive pressure rates out of all those who have experienced at least 1,000 defensive opportunities for the Bucks last season. Although Dudley is not known for switching running ability in offense, his ability to make mistakes in defensive pressure is very suitable for the Wizards' defensive strategy. This season, Dudley has also maintained this advantage.
This season, Dudley's defensive pressure rate ranked 4th out of all the players involved in the team's 1,000 defenses, just 0.03 percentage points lower than last season. In the top 20, there is another Wizards player — Otto Porter — with a 2.2 percent pressure rating, and his stats last season were 1.4 percent. However, if you focus only on this one piece of data, your eyes may be blinded. The Wizards emphasize that the pressure on the outside defense is not false, which is proved by the data, but the crux of the problem is that their actual performance has not improved, and they are currently only 30 wins and 32 losses, compared to last season's 46 wins and 36 losses, the gap is obvious.
There are some other information worth paying attention to. DelaVertova is not surprised to be number one in the league with 3.4 percent, and he is as annoying to other teams as a bug. But while Della's pressure rate has skyrocketed from 1.4 percent last season to 3.4 percent this season, his turnover rate for creating opponents has even decreased by 0.2 percent. Presumably, everyone still remembers the bad deeds of Della in last year's playoffs, and the label of "dirty player" on him has always been a hot topic, but we must not ignore the ability to interfere with the opponent's offense and put pressure on the person with the ball, because he is too active.
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It's also worth noting that the Cavaliers have 10th-highest defensive pressure rate in the league. Mo Williams was 2.1 percent, Shumpert was 1.7 percent, and Della was not alone in the fight.
Second on the individual list is Dennis Schroeder, whose defensive pressure rate is 3.2%, and he firmly executes the Eagles' defensive strategy. Like Dellavedova, Schroeder has skyrocketed this season. His defensive pressure rate was also 1.4 percent last season and has more than doubled this season. Schroeder, who has been known for his spider-like defense last season, has been more aggressive in his battery on the ball carriers this season and is more confident himself.
Schroeder's toughness and aggressiveness can force opponents to risk steals and conceded goals at any time. Although he is still A Teague's backup, averaging around 20 minutes per game, he has become the most important component of the Hawks bench.
According to the data, the defensive pressure rate has naturally increased in the playoffs, so for teams or players like the Wizards, Della Vidova and Schroeder, we have reason to believe that they will be more aggressive in the playoff defense.
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