HadAnEffectHere wrote:
Individual unadjusted DRtg is a pretty horrible stat, lol. He was benched for defense and decision making last night.
"Out of necessity (owing to a lack of defensive data in the basic boxscore), individual Defensive Ratings are heavily influenced by the team's defensive efficiency. They assume that all teammates are equally good (per minute) at forcing non-steal turnovers and non-block misses, as well as assuming that all teammates face the same number of total possessions per minute.
Perhaps as a byproduct, big men tend to have the best Defensive Ratings (although Oliver notes that history's best defensive teams were generally anchored by dominant defensive big men, suggesting that those types of players are the most important to a team's defensive success). A corollary to this is that excellent perimeter defenders who don't steal the ball a lot — for instance, Joe Dumars or Doug Christie — are underrated defensively by DRtg, and are prone to look only as good as their team's overall defense performs."
https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/ratings.html
The issue for Ingram is that his TS+ over the last three years is
98
100
100
Which is...... fine for an iso scorer... But not great... And Sexton's was 105.
Ingram also misses around 30 games a year.
People should chill out on last night as proof of anything other than Ingram being rusty post injury. The team hasn't played well these last two games vs a team that is a bad matchup for them. Dtg is not an objective stat as to whether someone is a superb individual defender but it does answer a more important question which is, can this person be part of a good defense. His overall defensive body of work shows that over 60 plus games he can be a part of a good defense and when you pair him with a good defender at the 5, like Nance, he can be part of an elite defense (108.4Dtrg). And this year he sacrificed some of his individual buckets for better overall play. You call him an iso scorer but he generally did a really good job of playing within the flow of the offense and the game.
Also Ingram hasn't missed 30 games in 5 years but by all means go off. I know 30 games sounds sexy.
