09-05-2023, 02:18 PM
(09-05-2023, 01:09 PM)omahen Wrote: Not sure why you think the author took this excercise as a personal attack on Mavs.
Based on what would you put THJ ahead of Brooks, Barnes and Hayward? Hayward is scoring a bit more, has more rebounds and assists while playing similar defense. Brooks is a worse offensive player but way better defender. Barnes is a steady 2-way player, scoring more on a better team and playing better defense.
What would make GW better than Bey, Williams, Love, Stewart or Avdija? He was 8th or 9th guy on Boston. Nothing really puts him convincingly ahead of names mentioned. Sure we may hope he will show more in a bigger role, but at the moment that is just our hope.
Mark Williams, Collins and Wiseman (in Detroit) were better than Powell in probably every stat category, certainly key ones.
I look at it as if I were to get the player for one year, who would I prefer to have. Using that measure:
I think Timmy is roughly at the same level as the three players he is compared to. Brooks is a much better defender, but he is a chucker with a below 50% TS. That would be such a beating. I think Barnes defense has been overrated since he was here. I don't really think its any better than Timmy's. Hayward can't stay on the court consistently. I would agree with the OP assessment that he is probably too low on this list.
Williams played 26 minutes a game on a deep contender. That shows more to me than a starter on a shitty team. There is not one guy in that list I would rather have than Williams for one year.
Powell is not a traditional center, so he is not going to compare well in traditional center stats you are probably looking at. His impact on the court has always been better than what it looks like it should be. That being said, I sincerely hope that Holmes recaptures what he was before everything went to shit for him. Before the eye injury he would be roughly middle of the road on this list.