When Anthony Davis helped propel the Lakers to the 2020 NBA championship, he did it by unleashing a career-best brand of all-court dominance: as an interior finisher, a possession-destroying defender … and a knockdown jump shooter.
-5, Davis is playing like a proper traditional center — a mammoth but nimble roadblock dedicated to the business of planting himself in the paths of opposing guards and separating them from Lakers ball-handlers.
Davis is setting more than 42 screens per 100 possessions this season, according to Second Spectrum's tracking data, by far the highest number since his New Orleans heyday. Perhaps more important, though, is what he's doingsetting them — or, rather, where he's going. Davis has popped to the perimeter fewer than 1.5 times per 100 screens this season, which would be his lowest mark in the last nine years.
For one thing, if you want to feature him as a scoring threat, it makes more sense to get him the ball on the move toward the spot where he's than it does tossing it to him where he misses nearly two-thirds of his attempts .
Turns out, Davis is still capable of being hell on wheels when he gets downhill with a head of steam. He's shooting 66.1% on plays he's finishing as the roll man this season, and scoring 1.35 points per possession on those rolls, according to
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