Stat-Padding: A Discussion

[nieman]

Stat padding is all about intentions and impact. If a player does everything in his power on offense and defense to help his team win regardless of the teams roster then that is not stat padding. If a player cherry picks on defense and only get his numbers on offense that has little impact on winning then that’s stat padding.

How can you tell who's intentions are pure though? You can play hard, and still lose, and it will look like stat padding if you got yours. And plenty of players cherry picked or didn't play defense at all. You can't gauge effort because everyone's demeanor is different. Some players play hard, but it looks lackadaisical on the court. Some have brash personalities that are always aggressive, but it looks like they're being selfish.

Stat padding is all about the narrative, because everyone does it. Whether or not it leads to winning basketball is based on if they like the player.

 

[The_Third_Man]

I don't know how you can say this if you've ever played ball breh, 99% of all stat-padding on every level is definitely scoring.

Yes, "someone is supposed to score", but when you insist on taking a bad shot when you know a teammate can get a better shot because you want to be the one with the big scoring total, you're stat-padding.






Which applies to every unnecessary bad shot.

that's being selfish, having tunnel vision/poor shot selection. It happens every where, from the NBA playoffs to the YMCA courts where there's no "STATS" sheets, it doesn't necessarily mean it's stat-padding.

I didn't say Stat-padding has nothing to do with scoring, it surely does. I said it's more blatant with rebounding and assisting. take the infamous Ricky Davis incident for example, the reason it was so ridiculous and still memorable to this day because he tried to grab his own intentional missed shot. if he was 8 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists I don't think we would remember him trying to force a shot in the last minute of the game.

or Westbrook chasing his 10th assist here

 

[Professor Emeritus]

or Westbrook chasing his 10th assist here

The worst part is that that would happen every third game, then once he got his 10th assist he would launch 6 ill-advised shots in a row.

I did an entire thread on that.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I've changed my stance many times on this, but Rondo was notorious for this. He'd have an easy layup within the offense or on a fast break, and at the last second, he'd pass the ball to get a cheap assist

 

[Don Homer]

Shame Gilgeous-Alexander

 

[Blackrogue]

@Buckeye Fever come get your mans

 

[Dorian Breh]

@Buckeye Fever come get your mans

they definitely read the original Buckeye Fever post

what's up you nerds I know you lurk

 

[Long Live The Kane]

They’re saying he fouled to get the ball back to break KD’s OKC record for most 30 point games in a season …with damn near 20 games left

 

[Blackrogue]

They’re saying he fouled to get the ball back to break KD’s OKC record for most 30 point games in a season …with damn near 20 games left

plus they were down and down a few points

 

[Raquinotj]

Shameless Statpadding…




Luka Stayed in a blowout game last week to chase the 30+ point triple double.

 

[Illin Degenerate]

They’re saying he fouled to get the ball back to break KD’s OKC record for most 30 point games in a season …with damn near 20 games left

it could be there was a particular reason he wanted it done in that game or just really wanted to get it over with but even though he was eventually going to break it, its a bad look to break it in that manner.

 

[RedBull]

Luka Stayed in a blowout game last week to chase the 30+ point triple double.

Came to post this. It’s disgusting. But when it was Russ, there was outrage. Luka is the ultimate stat padder, but everyone in the media stays quiet because he’s

 

[MasterThought]

How long has the term "stat-padding" been in y'all vocabulary?

Did skip Bayless blow this term up or were y'all already using it.

I know that Ricky davis situation years ago was pretty talked about but I never really heard the concept really talked about until recent years when Skip started saying it and using it to slander certain players.