Victor Wembanyama has blocked 21.8% of Field Goals which he defended. This is almost 5 standard deviations above the mean.
Rest of the Top Ten:
| Rank | Player | BLK/DFA |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor wembanyama | 21.8% |
| 2 | Clint Capela | 15.1% |
| 3 | Anthony Davis | 15.0% |
| 4 | Brook Lopez | 14.5% |
| 5 | Daniel Gafford | 14.2% |
| 6 | Myles Turner | 13.4% |
| 7 | Rudy Gobert | 13.2% |
| 8 | Jaren Jackson Jr. | 13.2% |
| 9 | Chet Holmgren | 12.5% |
| 10 | Ausar Thompson | 12.4% |
This data was arbitrarily limited to players with more than 300 minutes played(198 Players)
No but it’s a minimum requirement. If you put the best defender in the league onto the team with the worst defense, they wouldn’t be bottom 5. Probably not top 5, but they’d at least be decent. In the same sense that you can’t make an argument for being the best player in the league if your team misses the playoffs. Individual stats are all flaws in some way, ultimately it has to translate to team success because that’s the actual goal.
That’s the goal of the team. That requires a complete team