03-05-2024, 05:31 PM
(03-05-2024, 05:24 PM)mvossman Wrote: Yes context matters. Which is why using small sample 2 man lineup data is probably not telling you much. I mean if net rating is such a useful tool to make these kinds of assessments, then why does Powell have one of the highest net ratings on the team for a much bigger sample of this entire season? Is he not as bad as folks make him out to be? Is there some context that makes his number abnormally high? I mean the biggest narrative during the first half of the season was his lack of size was killing us. Why is that not reflected in his net rating?
I don't mean this directly aimed at you, but I see net rating in small samples used a lot on this board to explain a lot of things, and yet at the same time I will see much larger samples of net rating completely ignored because it does not fit narrative/eye test.
I used the small sample size data to suggest that Gafford and PJ is a better front court than Gafford and Maxi. For the rest of the year that may not be the case but so far it is. I don’t even talk about Powell anymore except in response to KL that he might somehow be better than Gafford, which imo is silly - don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings so silly is the word used