Thunder coach Billy Donovan saw the statistics on his team’s isolation percentage, but he wasn’t ready to take them at face value.
“When I saw the iso situation, I went back and watched all the isos,” Donovan said. “And those aren’t isos to me. Just based on the metrics and the way they do it, if a player gets the basketball, catches it and drives a guy, they’re looking at it as iso. That’s not iso to me. Iso to me is when you throw it to a guy, he holds it for four or five seconds, he’s sizing a guy up or he’s just holding the ball.