With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day 21:
Oklahoma City Thunder
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Oklahoma City's preseason over/under was 32.5 wins -- a mark they exceeded on Feb. 13.
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has played the seventh-most minutes (2,214) in the NBA.
- Steven Adams has the fifth most rebounds (196) in the league.
- Chris Paul has the sixth-most steals (98) in the league.
- Steven Adams is seventh in the league in field-goal percentage (59.1).
- Chris Paul is sixth in the NBA in free-throw percentage (90.0).
- Danilo Gallinari has the ninth-lowest turnover rate (7.5) in the league.
- Chris Paul is 10th in offensive win shares (5.5) and VORP (3.2).
- Nerlens Noel's 142.2 points per 100 shot attempts ranks in the 98th percentile for bigs.
- Darius Bazley's 94.2 points per 100 shot attempts ranks in the fifth percentile for bigs.
- Chris Paul's 123.1 points per 100 shot attempts ranks in the 93rd percentile for point guards.
- Chris Paul takes just 10% of his shots at the rim -- the second percentile for point guards. He takes 31% of his shots from the long mid-range -- in the 100th percentile. He's hit 51% of his long mid-rangers, ranking in the 89th percentile.
- Dennis Schroder takes 23% of his shots from the long mid-range -- in the 94th percentile for combo guards.
- Terrance Ferguson takes 35% of his shots from the corner -- in the 99th percentile for wing players.
- All five players who have seen the most minutes for the Thunder -- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chris Paul, Dennis Schroer, Danilo Gallinari, Steven Adams -- are in the 86th-plus percentile in drawing non-shooting fouls.
- Chris Paul has made the basket on 46.9% of his drawn shooting fouls -- in the 96th percentile for point guards.
- Nerlens Noel averages a combined 4.9 steals-plus-blocks per 36 minutes.
- Chris Paul's +13.4 point differential is the best on the team and in the 98th percentile.
- Dennis Schroder has OKC's second-highest point differential (+8.6).
- Terrance Ferguson has the worst point differential (-10.5) of anyone on the Thunder who has seen at least 300 minutes.
- The Thunder score 13.6 more points per 100 halfcourt plays with Danilo Gallinari on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 100th percentile.
- The Thunder add an extra 2.3 points per 100 possessions through transition play with Luguentz Dort on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 94th percentile.
- Opponents shoot 4.6% fewer shots at the rim with Steven Adams on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 96th percentile.
- Opponents shoot 3.5% more long mid-range jumpers with Hamidou Diallo on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 98th percentile in terms of forcing that shot.
- Out of all Thunder lineups that have seen 100+ possessions together, the best is +40.9 and contains Chris Paul, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Lu Dort, Danilo Gallinari and Nerlens Noel. The worst is -19.6 and replaces Dort with Terrance Ferguson.
- Thunder small-ball lineups -- no Steven Adams, Nerlens Noel, Mike Muscala -- have a -7.4 net rating in 101 possessions.
- Thunder three-guard lineups -- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chris Paul and Dennis Schroder -- are +31.4.
- The Thunder have the fifth-best spread differential (+2.2) in the NBA.
- Based on net rating, the Thunder have 3.4 more wins than expected -- the fourth-highest mark in the NBA.
- The Thunder have the third-worst shot profile (52.4 location eFG%) in the NBA.
