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Darren Erman needs to get the Pelicans to hustle

What were once considered intangibles, even though most if not all teams charted such numbers privately among themselves, might soon be measurable statistics available to the public.

During the 2015 Summer League, the NBA experimented with the use of new defensive metrics. All of them had to do with hustle which included gaining possession of loose balls, taking charges, deflections and contesting two and three-point shots. At the end of the day, all of these numbers were also combined into a mathematical formula to spit out one composite number, hustle points.

  • 2-Point Field Goal Contested: A contest decreases the probability of a 2-Point Field Goal going in by .