Tre Jones and the Impact of Shooting (HV+)

Data and film on Duke, Tre Jones, and "non-shooters"

Back in the early days of SportVU tracking data, STATS Inc. developed a metric called “gravity score”. In an article for ESPN, Kevin Pelton defined the term gravity as:

The tendency of defenders to be pulled to certain parts of the floor.

The term has stuck — particularly in the online basketball community. When Steph Curry and Klay Thompson run off scree…