How Donatas Motiejunas Became Houston Rockets’ Best Low-Post Scorer Threat

March 10th, 2015 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »

Donatas Motiejunas has turned out to be the right answer, but apparently the Houston Rockets got the question wrong. They thought he was going to be their stretch 4. Instead, he’s become the team’s best low-post scorer.

And as far as the Rockets' philosophy goes, that’s just as good. There are two ways they like to score: inside the restricted area and outside the three-point line. While Motiejunas has shown improvement in the latter—shooting 36.6 percent from deep this year—it’s inside the smaller semi-circle he’s shown the most progress.

When NBA.com/Stats rolled out their play-type stats, it was apparent just how good Motiejunas was. One play type they monitor is “post-ups” which they define as, “When an offensive player receives the ball with their back to the basket and is less than 15' from the rim when the possession-ending event occurs.”



Motiejunas has scored 225 points on post-up plays, which is 13th in the league. Among players who have scored at least 100 post-up points, he has the highest average at 1.0 points per possession, per NBA ...

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