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Why isn’t there a defensive stat like contests per game? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by prospect0r777@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space
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The box score should have defensive stats like number of attempted defensive contests in a game and number of successful defensive contests in a game. It’s hard to measure and reward defensive effort without such stats. When I look at a box score today, it’s largely biased towards the offense and doesn’t capture say a player’s effort who contested 10 shots in a game and only 2 of those successfully made it in. Comments?

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[–] Air4021@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The single most needed defensive stat that's missing is the block/steal, both events by the same player on the same play.