{"id":597913,"date":"2026-02-12T01:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/597913\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:54:19","slug":"popular-jalen-brunson-stat-doesnt-add-up-heres-one-that-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/597913\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Jalen Brunson stat doesn&#8217;t add up \u2014 here&#8217;s one that does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 One of the problems with all this analytics-driven coverage of sports \u2014 and, to be clear, there are many issues with the reduction of human beings into a math equation \u2014 is the lack of impartiality or context.<\/p>\n<p>So you may see a stat and may think it\u2019s relevant and important but, in reality, it was probably to confirm a bias or produced in a basement by somebody who doesn\u2019t actually watch the games. It\u2019s just gargling Basketball-Reference.com and spitting out numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for instance, the stat I\u2019ve seen being passed around by media folks and fans on social media:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Before Wednesday, the Knicks were 19-3 when Jalen Brunson took 20 or fewer shots. They are 14-13 when he\u2019s attempted more than 20 shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 One of the problems with all this analytics-driven coverage of sports \u2014 and, to be clear,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,288,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-597913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116055170297703936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}