[clairity]

nice! would have loved a little more detail in your conclusions section, but it's neat to see how my basketball intuition matches/mismatches your data.

one analysis that would be cool is an effectiveness chart of the mix of shots for each team/game. i suspect made percentage is correlated to the mix of shots (3's vs. layups vs. mid-range for example).

if you're a guard-heavy 3 shooting team, then defenders can adjust to gaurding the 3 to force lower-effectiveness mid-range shots. the question is whether that's an effective strategy, because at some point, the defense will have to start gaurding for the drive too, which loosens up the 3's again.