Remember when Zach Randolph was the new incarnation of Shareef Abdur-Rahim – the best player on bad teams? Well, the impossible has occurred: one of the bottom 3 franchises in the league merged with the “best-on-a-bad” Randolph and formed … a surprisingly decent 2010 Memphis Grizzlies squad. What the?
I don’t claim to understand it, either, so I’ll just hit the facts. 20.8 PPG / 10.6 RPG / 0.2 APG, shooting 49.3% from the floor and 85.7% from the free throw line. Ok, so he’s a black hole, but Z-Bo (where does the “Bo” in that nickname come from, anyway?) is still a 20-10 beast and lead his Grizzlies to 4-1 in the 5 games he’s played this month.
Biggest Jump: Zach Randolph, Deron Williams (3)
Biggest Fall: Tim Duncan (2)
Hello: Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash
Goodbye: Rajon Rondo, Carlos Boozer
Ineligible: Chris Paul
| NBA Top 10 (by APP+) | |||||||
| Rank | Prev | Player | Team(s) | Pos. | GP | APP | APP+ |
1 |
1 | LeBron James (Injured) |  |
F | 63 | ↓ 34.70 | ↓ 25.49 |
| - | 2 | Chris Paul (Injured) (Ineligible) |  |
G | 38 | ↑ 29.80 | ↓ 20.36 |
2 |
5 | David Lee |  |
F | 64 | ↓ 26.34 | ↓ 17.13 |
3 |
4 | Kevin Durant |  |
G-F | 63 | ↓ 26.66 | ↓ 16.70 |
| 4 | 3 | Chris Bosh |  |
F-C | 56 | ↓ 27.06 | ↓ 16.43 |
| 5 | 6 | Dwyane Wade |  |
G | 61 | ↓ 25.71 | ↓ 16.27 |
| 6 | 7 | Dwight Howard |  |
C-F | 65 | ↓ 25.78 | ↓ 16.04 |
| 7 | 8 | Dirk Nowitzki |  |
F | 65 | ↓ 24.35 | ↓ 15.14 |
| 8 | 9 | Pau Gasol |  |
F | 48 | ↓ 24.16 | ↓ 14.95 |
| 9 | 12 | Zach Randolph |  |
F | 64 | ↓ 23.70 | ↓ 14.49 |
| 10 | 13 | Deron Williams |  |
G | 58 | ↓ 23.81 | ↓ 14.37 |
| Just Outside | |||||||
| Rank | Prev | Player | Team(s) | Pos. | GP | APP | APP+ |
| 11 | 11 | Gerald Wallace |  |
F | 61 | ↓ 23.33 | ↓ 14.12 |
| 12 | 10 | Tim Duncan |  |
F-C | 59 | ↓ 24.73 | ↓ 14.10 |
| 13 | - | Carmelo Anthony |  |
F | 51 | 23.27 | 14.06 |
| 14 | - | Kobe Bryant | |
G-F | 60 | 23.95 | 13.99 |
| 15 | - | Steve Nash |  |
G | 64 | 23.34 | 13.90 |
| Positional Average APP (from 1980-Present) | |||||||
| Position | G | G-F | F-G | F | F-C | C-F | C |
| Avg. APP | ↓ 9.44 | ↓ 9.96 | 10.62 | ↓ 9.21 | ↓ 10.63 | ↓ 9.74 | ↓ 8.56 |
| # of Players | 3943 | 1040 | 688 | 3027 | 1370 | 706 | 1425 |
APP – Adjusted Pace Performance
A weighted formula for combining everything a player does on the basketball court into one number. This number is then adjusted based upon the players’ team pace to provide a balanced way to compare players’ performance.
APP+ – APP Above Positional Average APP
Player’s weighted performance minus the performance of an average player at his same position.Players are considered ineligible if they fail to play in 60% of their team’s games.
APP for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: 9.02
APP+ for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: 0.00
Stats through 3/11/2010