From the paper The Dwight Effect: A New Ensemble of Interior Defense Analytics for the NBA which was presented at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference we have the following data in Table 1 "The top and bottom 5 interior defenders
according to proximal FG%, which is defined as the opponent’s FG% :
Top 5 Proximal FG%
1. Larry Sanders 34.9%
2. Andrea Bargnani 35.2%
3. Kendrick Perkins 37.3%
4. Elton Brand 38.0%
5. Roy Hibbert 38.7%
Bottom 5 Proximal FG%
48. Kevin Love 52.1%
49. Jonas Valanciunas 52.8%
50. David Lee 53.0%
51. Jordan Hill 53.9%
52. Anderson Varejao 54.2%
So...Bargs looks good, Love bad and Boozer isn't in the bottom 5....I thought that was all pretty interesting.


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