If Thursday night’s USC-UCLA game was any indication, there will be some season-changing shots in the coming weeks.
Due to my curiosity on how often teams go to certain players in the clutch, I performed quick study on individual shot attempts within first 20 seconds and final 10 seconds of possessions for each team.
Thanks to Jeff Haley’s Hoop-Math site, total field goal attempts and “late” field goal attempts (final 10 seconds of shot clock) are listed on his site. I created a table on percentage of team’s shot attempts in non-late attempts as well as late attempts, and then found the difference to determine whether players are more common to take shot attempts in the clutch.