Matt Moore flirted with the shot blocked stat earlier this year in this very space but his love affair phased out as the season went on. It’s a shame really because %Blkd awareness has plummeted ever since. What is %Blkd? It’s the percentage of a player’s shots that get blocked. Simple enough. Although, it’s not to be confused by Basketball-Reference’s handy BLK% which calculates the flipside for the defender.
%Blkd is so simple that it feels like we should have had this information all along. We make a big deal out of blocks for defenders but we ignore the other side of the ball. Luckily, Hoopdata began publishing this data this season for the swat hungry masses.
via Hardwood Paroxysm.
Very informative post over at Hardwood Paroxysm that reveals, among other things, some very interesting findings about Houston Rockets forwards Chuck Hayes and Carl Landry.