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One of the more interesting charts I've ever seen is a turnover one.
A scout we had a relationship with, when I was at a previous sports data company did "I know / I think / I know" charts on guys like Morant.......to assess, to what degree, you should be concerned about his TO production.
I never saw Morant's chart but I'll just explain what the exercise is.....
A scout would pull every turnover out of a video database and he'd chart it as:
1. I know an NBA player catches that pass
2. I think an NBA player catches that pass.
3. I know that is a turnover in the NBA.
This exercise, is potentially, especially important for Morant.....if your big hangup is the recklessness with which he plays.....because he's playing with teammates who are a lot less skilled. Less skilled at catching difficult passes, less skilled at expecting difficult passes to be made and less skilled at converting those opportunities. And he's also playing in far greater traffic than he will at the NBA level.
So the above exercise possibly reduces his actual NBA TO number significantly......I don't know that it would but it was one of the more fascinating things I've seen. I wish I had an example of a previous prospect, who's evaluation does not matter anymore. It's my one regret in interfacing with that scout.....I should have just said "this is incredible, do you have one I can keep".....but I thought he would possibly be put off given our professional relationship. Damn professionalism.
That’s pretty interesting. A lot of his turnovers just come off of alley-oop attempts he has no business throwing. But he doesn’t take care of the ball otherwise either. I think that charting would be limited in usefulness without doing for every prospect you’re looking at for a point of reference.
What I would want to chart for players is the type of turnovers... Lost handle, poor decision, overzealous, travels, charges, etc... To me, some are more improvable than others. I know I brought it up awhile ago, but so many of Darius Garland's turnovers were a product of being overzealous. Just going for absurd cross court wrap around passes and whatnot lol... meanwhile you'd see him make advanced reads in P&R too. I'd think those are far more likely to improve than a guy with a subpar handle.
Ja is in the same boat too... I think he just fucks around out there most of the time because he can lol... And his TOV may be just slightly inflated because of it. He's obviously a tremendous passer regardless.