In today’s NBA, analytics is starting to become the gospel for NBA teams that are trying to formulate strategies to win more games. There are literally statistics for everything. There are viable statistics for how bench players would perform if they were given starter minutes and how valuable certain players are when another player is on the court. Some may believe that the overindulgence of analytics is trivial and doesn’t contribute to winning games, but others are sold on it. Channing Frye of the Cleveland Cavaliers is one of those players that do not see the point in the excessive use of analytics.
In fact, he ridiculed a particular statistic he was involved in directly on Twitter.
The particular statistic in question was the statement that Frye is the fourth most efficient half-court scorer in the NBA.
friendly reminder that Channing_Frye is the 4th most efficient half-court scorer in the NBA among players with over 100 possessions. he has played 27 minutes in the past 8 games.
While analytics aren’t totally useless, it does make sense why Frye responded the way he did. If Frye truly is the fourth best half-court scorer in the NBA, he would obviously be a more prominent player in the Cavaliers’ rotation. Instead, Frye is at the bottom of the Cavaliers’ rotation and is not a player that can clearly make an impact for his team right now.
That’s mainly why some consider analytics to be a fool’s game. Some statistics simply don’t help teams win or plan accordingly. Hopefully, one day, Frye will get to put his exemplary half-court skills to great use.
