Recap: Wizards blown by Los Angeles Clippers, 110-93

Same city, different opponents, different arenas, similar results-this time lost Washington Wizards for Los Angeles Clippers, 110-93. It was Washington’s 12th loss in a row. Their western conference tour continues Saturday night toward Phoenix Suns and the old friend Bradley Beal.

This one was a desultory affair. The wizards never led, though they fought for Clippers to a 4-4-made through the first 2:36 of the game. The competition quickly got out of hand. Los Angeles led 44-22 at one point, held a 25-point lead in the first half and a 27-point lead in the second.

Then Clippers seemed to be bored and went into a tail spin of turnover, and Washington was able to get the lead down to 12. The actual result was never in serious doubt, and Clipper’s coasted home with a 17-point victory.

With Clippers kicking the ball all over the pitch (18 revenue) and sent an offensive rating (points per possession x 100) at only 108, competent violation from Washington could have made things interesting. Outside of Jordan Poole and Jonas Valanciunas, the offensive competence was in short supply for the wizards. They shot 23.9% from the range of three-point and placed a 39.9% EFG% second-worthy shooting performance in the season.

Brutal.

Lighted spots to the wizards?

• Jordan Poole had a hard shooting evening from the floor-42.1% EFG% (6-19 from the floor and 4-12 from three), but he often came to the free-throw line and hit them all 8-8. He also produced 9 assists for 1 revenue and came with a few steals. He was productive even while missing shots.
• Valanciunas scored 12 points on 7 shots and grabbed 10 rebounds in just 18 minutes.
• Alex Sarr did not shoot well, but grabbed 10 rebounds – the sixth time this season he has hit double digits on the boards.

Other things?

• Clippers Vagt James Harden, who has one of the worst seasons in his career (which should not say he is bad not a place close to his previously very high standards), released a triple-double on the guide-17 Points, 12 rebounds, 13 assists. He was four revenue from a quadruple double.
• Derrick Jones Jr. hit his first 6 shots and ended with 19 points on 10 shots, as well as 8 rebounds and a pair of stealing.
• Mo Bamba hit three triangles on the wizards.
• Norman Powell, who has the best season of his career, scored 22 points and had 3 steals.
• Kyle Kuzma played a terrible game. Early in the game he tried to be a playmaker. It didn’t go well and it didn’t last. For the game he shot only 3-12 from the floor, grabbed 7 rebounds and had 3 assists and 2 revenue. Several of his unanswered shots caused laughs from the watch group on playback. His offensive rating was 62 on a 20.0% utility rate. The wizards were -25 in his 28 minutes.

Four factors

Below are the four factors that decide gains and losses in basketball – shooting (EFG), rebounding (offensive rebounds), ball handling (revenue), entry (free throw made).

The four factors are measured by:

• EFG% (effective field target percentage that accounts for the three -point shot)
• OREB% (offensive rebound percentage)
• Rope% (revenue rate – turnover divided by possessions)
• FTM/FGA (free throw made divided by field target attempts)

In the table below are the four factors that use the percentages and prices traditionally presented. There is also a column showing the league average in each of the categories to give a sense of each team’s performance compared to the rest of the league this season.

Statistics & Measurements

Below are a few performance metrics, including player production average (PPA) games score. PPA is my overall production metrics that credit players for things they do that help a team win (scoring, rebounding, playmaking, defending) and dings them for things that damage (unanswered shots, turns, bad defense, violations) .

Game Score (GMSC) Converts individual production to points on the scoreboard. The scale is the same as points and reflects each player’s Total contributions to the game. The lowest possible GMSC is zero.

PPA is one pr. Occupational metrics designed for larger data sets. In small test sizes, the numbers can become weird. In PPA, 100 average, higher is better and the replacement level is 45. For a single game, the replacement level is not much use and I repeat the care of small samples that sometimes produce strange results.

Poss is the number of belongings each player was on the floor of this game.

Ortg = Offensive rating, which are produced points per Individual possessions x 100. League -average last season was 114.8. Produced points are not the same as scored points. It includes the value of assists and offensive rebounds as well as sharing credit when receiving an assist.

USG = Offensive utility frequency. Average is 20%.

Ortg and USG are versions of statistics created by former Wizard’s assistant coach Dean Oliver and changed by me. Ortg is an efficiency measurement that accounts for the value of shooting, offensive rebounds, assists and turnover. USG includes shooting from the floor and free -throwing line, offensive rebounds, assists and turnover.

+Pts = “Plus Points” is a measure of the points achieved or lost by each player based on their efficiency in this game compared to League -average efficiency on the same number of belongings. A player with an offensive rating (produced points per possession x 100) of 100 who use 20 belongings would produce 20 points. If the league’s average efficiency is 114, the league would – on average, produced 22.8 points in the same 20 belongings. So the player in this hypothetical would have A +PTS scores of -2.8.

By Kevin Broom