re: The Ringer on the Stan van Gundy hire

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Cleaning the Glass tracks a stat called “location effective field goal percentage,” which looks at all of the shots a team takes, and asks how efficiently its offense would operate if its players hit a league-average share of them. The idea is to take a snapshot of a team’s shot profile: How well are you doing at generating chances from the most efficient areas of the court (at the rim, from the charity stripe, in the short corners) that typically lead to the most effective and potent offenses? And, conversely, on the defensive side, how good a job are you doing at preventing those tasty looks? The worst showing ever for a Van Gundy defense came in 2014-15, his first season in Detroit; the Pistons still came in above league average, finishing 14th in opponents’ shot profile. His teams landed in the top 10 in every single other season, including eight top-fives and five no. 1 finishes—once in Miami, three times in Orlando, and once with Detroit.

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