With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day 20:
New York Knicks
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Mitchell Robinson is ninth in the league in total offensive rebounds (186).
- Mitchell Robinson is sixth in the NBA in total blocks (119).
- Mitchell Robinson has the best true shooting percentage (72.6) in the NBA.
- Mitchell Robinson has the highest offensive rating (144.0) in the league and the fifth-most win shares per 48 minutes (.230).
- Julius Randle is ninth in total defensive rebounds (622) in the league.
- Elfrid Payton is 10th in assists per game (7.2).
- Elfrid Payton is sixth in steal percentage (2.7).
- Nine players who have seen 500+ minutes on the Knicks are in the sub-25th percentile in points per shot attempt.
- Dennis Smith is in the second percentile in points per 100 shot attempts (80.0) and in the seventh percentile in turnover rate (17.3%).
- RJ Barrett takes 48% of his shots at the rim -- in the 91st percentile for wing players.
- Dennis Smith is 8-of-48 on long mid-range jumpers.
- RJ Barrett is fouled on 14.8% of his shot attempts -- in the 94th percentile for wing players. He also draws a non-shooting foul on 1.5% of team plays -- in the 83rd percentile.
- Mitchell Robinson and Elfrid Payton have the highest point differentials on the Knicks -- +8.8 and +7.9 respectively.
- Dennis Smith's point differential (-14.8) is the worst on the Knicks of anyone who has seen at least 500 minutes.
- With RJ Barrett on the court, 7.3% more of the Knicks' steals lead to transition plays -- a difference that ranks in the 88th percentile. Also, with him on the court, 7.6% fewer of opponents' steals lead to transition plays -- in the 89th percentile. However, opponents get 5.6% more transition plays off of live rebounds.
- With Bobby Portis on the court, 5.0% fewer of opponents' live rebounds lead to transition plays -- a difference that ranks in the 95th percentile.
- Out of all Knicks lineups that have seen 100+ possessions, the best has a +33.9 net rating and contains Elfrid Payton, RJ Barrett, Maurice Harkless, Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson. The worst is -36.9 and contains Frank Ntilikina, RJ Barrett, Marcus Morris, Julius Randle and Bobby Portis.
- Knicks lineups with both Elfrid Payton and Mitchell Robinson on the court are +6.3 per 100 possessions.
- Lineups with Julius Randle at center are -0.8 points per 100 possessions.
- The Knicks have the second-worst offense (106.5) in the NBA.
- On the road against top-10 teams, the Knicks have the third-worst point differential (-17.7).
- The Knicks have the third-worst net rating (-12.8) on the second night of back-to-backs.
- Since the All-Star break, New York has the fourth-worst net rating (-4.7).
- New York is the best offensive rebounding team (28.6%) in the league.
- The Knicks take the fifth-most shots at the rim (38.6%) in the NBA and the fewest threes (28.7%).
- New York allows the third-most corner threes (28.8%) in the NBA.
- Opposing teams shoot 38.3% from three against the Knicks -- the third-highest accuracy in the league.
- Taj Gibson has the second-highest offensive rating (121) on the Knicks.
- Julius Randle has had 65 of his shots blocked.
- RJ Barrett has had 60 of his shots blocked.