Fun with Box Scores: 2020 Playoffs Edition

Photo by Kim Klement - Pool/Getty Images People who have been reading my stuff for a while know that I like box scores. One of the first pieces I wrote at Pounding the Rock was called How A Coach Reads A Box Score. For instance, coaches really don’t care about total rebounds, even though game announcers focus on that statistic. Instead, coaches care about the percentage of missed shots that turn into offensive rebounds. We want to get a significant percentage of our own misses converted into offensive rebounds, which often lead to put-backs or kick outs to open three point shooters. And we don’t want to give those opportunities to the opponent.

I also enjoy funky box scores, where one can…