The NBA's Most Valuable Low Volume Shooters

"Shots are not valuable unless they go in the basket."

-Known/Unknown


'Points Above Average' takes this simple idea and credits players for maximizing their points scored per shot attempt.  With this in mind, here are the NBA's

  Most Valuable Low Volume Shooters*

			POINTS ABOVE	TRUE	TRUE SHOT
	Player	Team	NBA AVG.	SHOOTING+	ATTEMPTS/GAME
1	DeAndre Jordan	LAC	120	117	10
2	Enes Kanter	OKC	109	115	10
3	Hassan Whiteside	MIA	106	115	11
4	Dwight Howard	HOU	91	112	12
5	Jonas Valanciunas	TOR	79	115	10
6	Chandler Parsons	DAL	68	109	12
7	Gorgui Dieng	MIN	68	111	8
8	Darren Collison	SAC	64	108	12
9	Kenneth Faried	DEN	64	109	11
10	Evan Fournier	ORL	64	107	12.7
11	Omri Casspi	SAC	63	109	10
12	Steven Adams	OKC	62	114	6
13	Jared Dudley	WAS	62	112	7
14	Marvin Williams	CHO	60	108	10
15	Marcin Gortat	WAS	60	108	11
			POINTS ABOVE	TRUE	TRUE SHOT
	Player	Team	NBA AVG.	SHOOTING+	ATTEMPTS/GAME
16	Tristan Thompson	CLE	58	112	7
17	Nikola Jokic	DEN	58	110	8
18	Robin Lopez	NYK	58	109	9
19	Jae Crowder	BOS	53	106	12.6
20	Brandon Bass	LAL	51	114	6
21	Draymond Green	GSW	51	106	12
22	Ed Davis	POR	50	113	5
23	Ian Mahinmi	IND	48	110	7
24	Channing Frye	TOT	43	115	5
25	Kyle Korver	ATL	43	107	8
26	Mirza Teletovic	PHO	42	106	10
27	Andrew Bogut	GSW	41	114	5
28	Rudy Gobert	UTA	40	110	8
29	Willie Cauley-Stein	SAC	39	113	5
30	Boban Marjanovic	SAS	38	122	4

*Fewer than 13 True Shot Attempts/Game

Updated March 19, 2016