From: hillyard@msc.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: was Re: Paxson sucks (was Re: Phoenix is absolutely scary...)
Originator: hillyard@tiger.msc.cornell.edu
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:09:19 GMT

From article <1993Jan8.210439.3235@brtph560.bnr.ca>, by markham@brtph597.bnr.ca (Andrew Markham P205):
> In article <1993Jan8.141939.9707@iscsvax.uni.edu> baker2668@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
[...]
>>
>>Getting back to the original thread (whether or not John Paxson "sucks")
>>Does anyone have his stats for the last 5 years or so.  I think they will 
>>show a man in the decline of his career.
> 
> Year   FG%   FT%   RPG  APG  PPG
> 87-88 .493  .733   1.3  3.7  7.9
> 88-89 .480  .861   1.2  4.0  7.3
> 89-90 .516  .824   1.5  4.1 10.0
> 90-91 .548  .829   1.1  3.6  8.7
> 91-92 .528  .784   1.2  3.0  7.0

I can do better than that :).  (The stats are split into SA and Chi because
this is from when I compared his stats with and without Jordan.)

            G   min  FGA  FGM   %    FTA   FTM  %   Reb  Ast  Pf   Stl Pts  Ave
83-84 SA   49   458  137   61  44.5   26   16  61.5  33  149   47   10 142  2.9
84-85 SA   78  1259  385  196  50.9  100   84  84.0  68  215  117   45 486  6.2
           
tot       127  1717  522  257  49.2  126  100  79.4 101  364  164   55 628  4.9
                                                                   
85-86 Chi  75  1570  328  153  46.6   92   74  80.4  94  274  172   55 395  5.3
86-87 Chi  82  2689  793  386  48.7  131  106  80.9 139  467  207   66 930 11.3
87-88 Chi  81  1888  582  287  49.3   45   33  73.3 104  303  154   49 640  7.9
88-89 Chi  78  1738  513  246  48.0   36   31  86.1  94  308  162   53 567  7.3
89-90 Chi  82  2365  708  365  51.6   68   56  82.4 119  335  176   83 819 10.0
90-91 Chi  82  1971  578  317  54.8   41   34  82.9  91  297  136   62 710  8.7
91-92 Chi  79  1946  487  257  52.8   37   29  78.4  96  241  142   49 555  7.0

tot       559 14167 3989 2011  50.4  450  363  80.7 737 2225 1149  417 4616 8.3

Per 48 minutes
                                                                    
83-84 SA            14.4  6.4  44.5  2.7  1.7  61.5 3.5 15.6  4.9  1.0 14.9    
84-85 SA            14.7  7.5  50.9  3.8  3.2  84.0 2.6  8.2  4.5  1.7 18.5    

tot                 14.6  7.2  49.2  3.5  2.8  79.4 2.8 10.2  4.6  1.5 17.6    
                                                                  
85-86 Chi           10.0  4.7  46.6  2.8  2.3  80.4 2.9  8.4  5.3  1.7 12.1    
86-87 Chi           14.2  6.9  48.7  2.3  1.9  80.9 2.5  8.3  3.7  1.2 16.6    
87-88 Chi           14.8  7.3  49.3  1.1  0.8  73.3 2.6  7.7  3.9  1.2 16.3    
88-89 Chi           14.2  6.8  48.0  1.0  0.9  86.1 2.6  8.5  4.5  1.5 15.7    
89-90 Chi           14.4  7.4  51.6  1.4  1.1  82.4 2.4  6.8  3.6  1.7 16.6    
90-91 Chi           14.1  7.7  54.8  1.0  0.8  82.9 2.2  7.2  3.3  1.5 17.3    
91-92 Chi           12.0  6.3  52.8  0.9  0.7  78.4 2.4  5.9  3.5  1.2 13.7    

tot                 13.5  6.8  50.4  1.5  1.2  80.7 2.5  7.5  3.9  1.4 15.6    


> 
> With Pippen's points TRIPLING over those five years (and Grant's DOUBLING
> 7.7 -> 14.2, and BJ's increasing over the last 3) you see a man who gets 
> the ball in his hands less and less every year.  
> 
> Considering how he's been splitting time with BJ over the past two seasons,
> it's amazing his per-game stats haven't fallen dramatically. 
> 
> Decline?  I don't think so.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew W. Markham (markham@bnr.ca)
> Bell Northern Research, Inc.
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