{"id":4140,"date":"2015-04-30T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:03:23","slug":"sergio-maldonado-adrian-palacios-nicholas-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=4140","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Maldonado, Adrian Palacios &amp; Nicholas Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shots All Around<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two aspects to perfect when playing the game of basketball; these two aspects are offense and defense. In our project we will be focusing on offense and more specifically the shooting percentage from the three-point line, the free throw line and overall shooting percentage from the field. Statistics have long been a part of the game of basketball and more specifically the NBA. The current study took 5 of the top teams from each the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference to compare shooting percentage and to see if there is a direct correlation to winning games. Comparing the shooting percentages of teams will allow us to see if a high shooting percentage is vital to winning games or are other aspects of the game such as defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MATH 315<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Bergquist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banquet Room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 &#8211; 3 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots All Around There are two aspects to perfect when playing the game of basketball; these two aspects are offense and defense. In our project we will be focusing on offense and more specifically the shooting percentage from the three-point line, the free throw line and overall shooting percentage from the field. Statistics have long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=4140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sergio Maldonado, Adrian Palacios &amp; Nicholas Sullivan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235],"tags":[1668,756,117,1724,715,2233,2195],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2015","tag-bergquist-t","tag-maldonado-s","tag-math","tag-math-315","tag-palacios-a","tag-poster-spring-15","tag-sullivan-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}