But his field goal percentage is up, leading at least one Dallas blogger to claim that Jones is getting comfortable in Atlanta.
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And after posting the best defensive field goal percentage in the NBA this season, the Pacers finally managed to hold Atlanta under 50 percent shooting.
You could leave a basketball by itself under a chair and its 3-point field goal percentage would only be 15 points worse than Baron Davis's.
Indiana led the league in rebounding, defensive field goal percentage and defensive 3-point percentage while finishing second in points allowed per game during the regular season.
The Pacers, who allowed the second-fewest points per game and the lowest field goal percentage in the league during the regular season, mixed in solid offense as well.
Maybe compare point spreads to seedings, or study those team-by-team defensive stats until you collapse from exhaustion before determining who hold opponents to the lowest field goal percentage in games decided by fewer than ten points.
Last season, Stoudemire's field-goal percentage dropped to 44% from a norm of 56% when he shared the floor with Chandler, according to NBA.com.
Another statistic Krossover compiles is effective field-goal percentage (or eFG%), a weighted formula that adjusts for the difficulty of the shots taken.
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Stoudemire has developed into a reliable threat near the basket, upping his field-goal percentage to 57.7 percent, a huge jump from last season's 48.3%.
Last season, the junior was the MAC's only player to rank among the top-three in conference in scoring, rebounding, field-goal percentage and blocked shots.
The team returns star forward, junior Javon McCrea, who was the MAC's only player to rank among the top-three in conference in scoring, rebounding, field-goal percentage and blocked shots.
As such, he drew fouls at more than twice the rate he had earlier in the season, and saw his field-goal percentage climb drastically as a result of the closer-range looks.
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Secondly, defensive indifference toward Shumpert and Kidd has allowed teams to throw more defenders at Carmelo Anthony, who's posted a 40.8% field-goal percentage in February, his worst shooting month of the season.
While Anthony's field-goal percentage of 45.3% is below his career average of 45.6%, it includes a career-best 41.6% from three-point range 18th in the NBA. Plus he is shooting 6.6 threes per game versus 2.8 for his career.
He noted how Lin's performance in two unsexy statistical categories two-point field-goal percentage (a barometer of inside scoring ability) and RSB40 (rebounds, steals and blocks per 40 minutes) compared favorably with college numbers put up by marquee NBA guards like Allen Iverson and Gary Payton.
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