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Stathis
1) When a defender (who makes most of
the effort) hits (without the hit being a "controlled" pass) the ball off the
hands of an opponent and the ball ends up in the hands of another defender (who
doesn't really do much), who is credited with the steal? In the case of
similar rebounds nobody does, as they are credited as "team rebounds", but I
haven't seen the term "team steal".
2) When a player is fouled in the act of
rebounding, is he credited with the rebound? Does this depend on whether
he has grabbed the ball before the fouls is committed? What about when he
is fouled just as he is grabbing the ball, which is knocked loose by the
foul?
3) When a player wins an offensive foul or
forces a TO by himself, shouldn't he be credited with a steal? Or,
alternatively, shouldn't forced TOs be an important separate stat that is
relatively easily measurable? There may be more forced TOs than steals in
a game. This could resolve the conflict in (1) as well, as the first
player could be credited with a forced TO and the second with a rebound
:-)
4) When a player puts-up a shot, the ball
hangs on the rim, and a teammate commits goal-tending (although the ball was
clearly going in), is the shooter charged with a missed FG attempt? Is
goal-tending charged as a TO to the offender, although the team did not have
possession? If not, isn't it wrong to punish (statistically) the
shooter instead of the player who committed the goal-tending?
5) When a player shoots a FT and a teammate
commits a lane violation, so the (made) FT does not count, is the player charged
with a missed FT? Is the lane violator charged with a TO? Does this
depend on whether the ball had left the hands of the shooter (so there was no
possession)?