Warriors’ Draymond Green leads NBA in ‘lag rate,’ per report

On a team filled with reserved personalities, the All-Star forward's fiery demeanor has been a driving force behind Golden State's three-season run of at least 67 wins. The story's author, Chris Herring, pored over data from SportVU — a system of six cameras that measures the movements of all players on the court during games — and plenty of video to determine that Green leads the league in "lag rate," a stat invented to measure how often someone crosses half-court more than three seconds after the ball. According to Herring's analysis, Green's has a lag rate of 20 percent — only one percentage point more than Russell Westbrook, LeBron James and John Wall. The Warriors tend to hold off opponents until Green, who finished the regular season in a three-way tie for second in the NBA with 15 technical fouls, crosses half-court.