08-17-2023, 10:51 AM
(08-17-2023, 10:37 AM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: What's your ranking? Let me know and we'll compare our measure.
Are you saying he's a top 20 (but not top 10) starting PF defensively? If so, that's average. 21st+ is below average.
See above. I pulled it from EPM, DPM and LEBRON, which are considered the best comprehensive advanced stats we have access to. He is a positive on defense in all of those for every season he played.
One clarification to make, being a positive does not mean average NBA player, it means average NBA minutes which are very different. EPM does a good job pointing this out. He is a little better than average defensively for NBA minutes, but that puts him in the 70 percentile of NBA players. As I mentioned above, his numbers are not huge, but are consistently good across all of those indicators and across all of his seasons. That is a very big sample.