Individual Stats Tracker 2025-26 Season

[Q-is-here]

Here are the First 10 Games, with definitions below.

PER - Very much individual box-score driven and rewards volume more than efficiency. Doesn't really account for defense. This tends to reward higher usage offensive players and guys that get lots of counting stats.
WS/48 - Combines individual box-score stats with team performance; tends to reward efficiency as much as volume; tries to apportion team performance to individual players, so a great team defense for example tends to lift all boats (or weight them down if the defense is poor).
VORP - Value over Replacement Player. This extrapolates from box score stats and takes into account actual minutes played, so it helps recognize that starters have to carry a bigger load.
Net Rating - Team points per 100 possessions minus opponent points per 100 possessions while player is on the floor, per NBA.com.

Player (in order of total minutes played) - PER/WS48/VORP/Net Rating
Randle - 25.4/.236/.7/+7.0
Rudy - 16.4/.157/.2/+12.1
Jaden - 18.1/.140/.2/+6.7
DDV - 15.5/.139/.3/+5.8
Naz - 13.7/.063/0.0/-5.0
Conley - 13.2/.139/.2/+5.6
Ant - 26.6/.185/.3/+9.0
Clark - 12.2/.125/0.0/+9.2
Shannon - 4.8/-.016/-.1/-19.7
Dilly - 8.8/-.043/-.2/-11.6

[Q-is-here]

A few comments:

- Ant, Jaden, and Randle are all at career highs in production/efficiency metrics (PER and Win Shares). One caveat is that a lot of that was puffed up by the last two blowouts against Utah and Sacramento. Still, these games matter and we lost too many of these last year against inferior opponents.

- I am confident Shannon has no where to go but up. Those numbers are really, really, really bad. How far up and how much of a chance he gets is TBD.

- Clark has solidified himself in the rotation. Invaluable role player. Not quite as versatile as NAW (offensively that is), but he may impact winning more when it's all said and done.

- Dillingham has been bad and we are a worse team with him on the court. His improvement curve needs to steepen.

- Rudy is indeed having a down year so far, but his net rating demonstrates that he is still critical to winning games.

- The shift of DDV starting in place of Conley has paid off. Mike looks good coming off the bench.

[kekgeek]

If the season ended today I do not believe Shannon or Dilly would be in the playoff rotation. I do believe TSJ will play himself into a 9 man playoff rotation however. A not less confident in Dilly but keep giving him minutes.

[Q-is-here]

If the season ended today I do not believe Shannon or Dilly would be in the playoff rotation. I do believe TSJ will play himself into a 9 man playoff rotation however. A not less confident in Dilly but keep giving him minutes.

In the absence of a trade, Shannon has to get his act together and be a critical part of the rotation heading into the playoffs if we have any chance of beating OKC. And I agree, no way should Dillingham be even close to a basketball during the playoffs unless he takes a massive leap forward relative to where he is today.

[AbeVigodaLive]

10 games in...

And Julius Randle has shot at least 50% from the field in every game. Just a remarkably consistent and steady season so far. McDaniels has shot at least 58% in 6 of the 10 games. For a team that isn't getting too much from the young guys, their improvement has been huge.



[Note: I know FG % is an "old" stat. But it's not irrelevant. He's also shooting 41% on threes and 87% from the line. He's like the anti-Baron Davis. I remember a guy on an ESPN board who monitored how often Baron Davis reached 50% from the field back in the day. He did it like once in a 58-game stretch or something mind-boggling like that.]

[Q-is-here]

10 games in...

And Julius Randle has shot at least 50% from the field in every game. Just a remarkably consistent and steady season so far. McDaniels has shot at least 58% in 6 of the 10 games. For a team that isn't getting too much from the young guys, their improvement has been huge.



[Note: I know FG % is an "old" stat. But it's not irrelevant. He's also shooting 41% on threes and 87% from the line. He's like the anti-Baron Davis. I remember a guy on an ESPN board who monitored how often Baron Davis reached 50% from the field back in the day. He did it like once in a 58-game stretch or something mind-boggling like that.]

Yeah, Julius has been incredible. This is the second year he's exceeded my expectations (so far)!

[Coolbreeze44]

I like these updates, thanks for sharing. I said it a few days ago but I think it bears repeating, Rudy's net rating is more of a Randle/NAZ stat than a Rudy one. Defensively, Randle and NAZ are a lot worse than Rudy is good. I'm not saying Rudy isn't a great defensive presence

[Q-is-here]

I like these updates, thanks for sharing. I said it a few days ago but I think it bears repeating, Rudy's net rating is more of a Randle/NAZ stat than a Rudy one. Defensively, Randle and NAZ are a lot worse than Rudy is good. I'm not saying Rudy isn't a great defensive presence

I think you are basically saying the only reason his Net Rating is higher than everyone else is because he doesn't have to play with Naz and Julius at the same time, who when combined bring down the Net Rating of everyone not named Rudy, who is "immunized" by their bad defense because he's on the bench.

But it doesn't minimize the reality that we are objectively winning the minutes he plays at a rate of +12 points per 100 possessions. We have the #2 defense and #6 offense when he's on the floor, so his awkwardness and poor hands moments certainly hasn't prevented us from scoring. That doesn't make him the best player on the team, but he is a HUGE enabler of our best players on both ends of the floor.

Congrats goes to Finch for figuring out how to get this offense to click with what I've always thought were some awkward fitting, but talented, pieces.

[Coolbreeze44]

I like these updates, thanks for sharing. I said it a few days ago but I think it bears repeating, Rudy's net rating is more of a Randle/NAZ stat than a Rudy one. Defensively, Randle and NAZ are a lot worse than Rudy is good. I'm not saying Rudy isn't a great defensive presence

I think you are basically saying the only reason his Net Rating is higher than everyone else is because he doesn't have to play with Naz and Julius at the same time, who when combined bring down the Net Rating of everyone not named Rudy, who is "immunized" by their bad defense because he's on the bench.

But it doesn't minimize the reality that we are objectively winning the minutes he plays at a rate of +12 points per 100 possessions. We have the #2 defense and #6 offense when he's on the floor, so his awkwardness and poor hands moments certainly hasn't prevented us from scoring. That doesn't make him the best player on the team, but he is a HUGE enabler of our best players on both ends of the floor.

Congrats goes to Finch for figuring out how to get this offense to click with what I've always thought were some awkward fitting, but talented, pieces.

We are a really good team, much better than I had thought entering the season. So it's no surprise we should have good numbers when our starting lineup is on the court. But yeah, Rudy is the only guy who doesn't have to play without Rudy. While it limits us some offensively, it hurts everybody else defensively. I'm willing to bet if you replaced Rudy with any other good defensive anchor, our team numbers wouldn't suffer at all. That's how good the surrounding cast is.

[kekgeek]

Per NBA.com tracking data, Rudy Gobert is holding opponents to 38.2% within 6 feet of the rim. A whopping -25.1% lower than expected. The lowest percentage for any player in the league that defends at least 5 of those attempts per game.