NBA will track 'hustle stats' during playoffs for first time

Holy **** this could kill Harden's reputation even more.

 

He's lucky there's no stat for "while looking at the ball, completely lost track of defensive assignment and left him 20ft open".

 

Seems pretty overboard to me, some of the stats listed hold merit, some others are kind of superficial. All in all I'm not sure why they would start recording these stats, but if it makes Harden hustle more I won't complain.

 

SMH

10$ says that by the end of the playoffs
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Rocket River

 

Seems rather odd because where do you draw the line? Is it a contest when a player runs at a shooter, just swiping and immediately running the other way in case of a fast break?

 

http://stats.nba.com/hustle/#!/
http://stats.nba.com/league/team/#!/hustle/?sort=SCREEN_ASSISTS&dir=1
Rockets

 

Looks like we won't get any pace-adjusted versions of these stats. At least, not yet.

 

How are warriors not leading screen assists?