{"id":38,"date":"2013-08-30T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-08-30T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T19:28:45","slug":"new-article-what-is-effective-field-goal-percentage-and-why-you-should-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/new-article-what-is-effective-field-goal-percentage-and-why-you-should-use-it","title":{"rendered":"New Article: What is Effective Field Goal Percentage? And Why YOU Should Use It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new article I wrote called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/stats\/effective-field-goal-percentage.html\">What is Effective Field Goal Percentage? And Why YOU Should Use It<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Effective Field Goal percentage (eFG%) has become an important coaching tool for me. \u00a0In fact, it&#8217;s arguably the most important stat for you to look at.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend that all coaches at the middle school level or higher should look at eFG% and utilize it. \u00a0Consider the following facts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The average\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/hollinger\/teamstats\/_\/sort\/effectiveFGPct\">eFG% for the NBA<\/a>\u00a0was 49.66%.\u00a0The Miami Heat has the highest eFG% at 55.24% this year. Guess who had the second highest eFG% ??<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Spurs had the second highest at 53.06%. These were the two best teams in the NBA and met in the finals!<\/p>\n<p>Is it a coincidence that the teams with the two highest eFG% also had the best records and made it to the finals?<\/p>\n<p>I suggest you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/stats\/effective-field-goal-percentage.html\">take a look at the article<\/a>. \u00a0I think it will give you an interesting perspective and might give you some useful ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new article I wrote called\u00a0What is Effective Field Goal Percentage? And Why YOU Should Use It. Effective Field Goal percentage (eFG%) has become an important coaching tool for me. \u00a0In fact, it&#8217;s arguably the most important stat for you to look at. I recommend that all coaches at the middle school level or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":{"0":"post-38","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stats","7":"tag-stats-2","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}