Jokic is shooting 92.9% at the restricted area in clutch time. Banchero is shooting 16.7% outside the paint. Same league. Same pressure. Completely different players when it matters. Full zone breakdowns, 17 players, four shot maps: open.substack.com/pub/statshot...

SGA is above league in every zone with volume. +12.7% midrange on 289 FGA. I searched 14,000 player-seasons for his comp. Top matches: Jokic, Embiid, Nash. Full breakdown: open.substack.com/pub/statshot...

Bam Adebayo just broke the all-time NBA record for free throw attempts in a game. 43. The previous record was 39 (Dwight Howard, twice: 2012 and 2013). No one had ever shot 40+ in a game until tonight.

OKC is +5.4% vs league from midrange on 621 FGA this season. Denver allows -1.1% vs league there on 641 FGA. The game turns on whether OKC can keep getting to the elbows.

LaMelo Ball: 939 FGA, 462 above-the-break threes, engine of the biggest offensive improvement in the league. A lot of people wrote him off. The zone data says he's back. Full breakdown (team + LaMelo + Kon) here: statshothq.substack.com/p/the-league...

Is Jokic the most binary passer in the NBA? 59% of his assists go to the paint. 36% to three. Only 27 out of 494 assists this season land in midrange -- 5.5%. Rim or arc. That's the Denver offense in one chart.

Jordan '98 and Kobe '06 shot 42.5% and 42.4% from midrange. Nearly identical. But Jordan took 58% of his shots from there. Kobe spread to three. Which profile wins in today's game? First Substack: open.substack.com/pub/statshot...

Jokic's chart has no cold zones. One of 13 this season. But his Player Impact dual panel — offense on the left, opponent shooting when he's on court on the right — tells the full story. statshot.io

Curry's midrange vs league: +3.0% on 245 FGA in 2015-16. +10.1% on 91 FGA in 2025-26. Unanimous MVP Curry was a worse midrange shooter relative to league than 37-year-old Curry. Same tool, decade apart. statshot.io

I've mapped 50+ players this season. Nobody's chart looks like Giannis. 67.5% of his shots from the restricted area, converting at 78.1% on 351 FGA. Why would he shoot from anywhere else? statshot.io

MJ '98: 42.5% midrange on 1,400 shots. Kobe '06: 42.4% on 1,033. Same efficiency, different volume. Kobe spread to three (35.4% on 503 FGA). Jordan lived at 15 feet. Which profile ages better?

Offense and on-court D on one chart for the first time. Luka 2025-26: 63% from the paint, elite. On-court opp 2PT: 56.7% vs 54.6% league on 2,297 FGA — barely above average. Opp 3PT: 35.7% vs 35.9% league — slightly better. "Luka is a sieve" doesn't survive 3,882 opponent shots.

Debuting offense + defense vs league on one chart. Opponent shot quality by zone vs league — never visualized like this. OKC 2025-26: -4.8% on 2PT, rim locked, right corner 3 is where they bleed. Build your own at statshot.io

Who deserves ROY — the shooter or the finisher? Knueppel rules from three, Flagg from the elbows and the rim. Same heatmap, different answers. statshot.io

Mark Williams full season: 63.3% on 412 FGA. Last 5 min of the 4th he shrinks to the paint and goes 77.8% on 36 FGA — #1 in the league. Suns. So why aren’t they using him more down the stretch? Same data for any player at statshot.io.

Two best teams of their era — completely different shot maps. Jordan's 96-97 Bulls vs. Curry's 15-16 Warriors. Build your own at statshot.io

I mapped every Devin Booker shot this season vs. league average — his midrange zone is on another level