01-29-2024, 05:58 PM
(01-29-2024, 05:46 PM)mvossman Wrote: My problem with this argument is that you are only looking at a half season of sample for very noisy stats. What was his DEPM, defensive rating and defensive on/off last year? They paint a completely different picture. He is not a good defender. A lot of players on this team are not good defenders. His defensive advanced stats look wildly worse this half season than they have in the past due to bad lineup construction and noise. If you make roster decisions based on a couple of months of very noise data, your going to be hopping all over the place.
And this is very different than the Wood debate. A big part of that debate was maturity and locker room issues. There is no hint of that here.
I dunno, refusing to pass the ball when common basketball sense would dictate it seems pretty immature to me, and would likely leave me disgruntled after each game if I were his teammate.