ComboGuardCity wrote:Jennings: 30/8 45%
Irving: 31/5 54%
Lawson: 24/12 52%
WestbrooK: 18/9 25%
Curry: 22/12 32%
He's been inconsistent to say the least over the past 5 games. I also saw a full 48 minutes against the Pistons and he got torched by Brandon Knight.
in other words, Shem was right...you're basing everything off box scores and just lobbing out assumptions that follow from those box scores
on the other hand, we have actually watched the games. That's helpful sometimes in having more accurate evaluations.
Does Lillard get beat sometimes by opposing PG's?...sure, he's a rookie after all. But the PG's who beat Lillard also beat every other PG in the league. The other side of that is that Lillard has been beating them just about as much on the other end of the floor
but another factor is that Terry Stotts has had a substitution pattern for a while that often pulls Lillard about 6 minutes in to the 1st and 3rd quarters. This leaves the other team's PG in against the Blazer 2nd unit. That is how Jennings got a bunch of his points. That is how Irving got a bunch of his points. And by the way, Cleveland wanted no part of trying to make Irving cover Lillard, they put him on Matthews
you keep arguing that Lillard is below average as a defender. and supplise some recent examples
Curry got 22 points on 22 FGA at 32% shooting; Lillard got 37 points on 25 FGA on 60% shooting. Seems like one of those players was worse as a defender
Westbrook got 18 points on 21 FGA for 24% shooting and you think that shows Lillard played bad defense?
by the way, in those 5 examples, 3 of those games were in a back to back-to-back situation
ComboGuardCity wrote:I hate using advanced stats to measure a perimeter player's defensive impact personally.
usually, I have found that around here people tend to hate any type of stats when those stats do not support their bias
Those stats at 82games for opponent numbers may have some flaws, like all stats do, but they do offer some data that reveals some things about individual defense. By an large, those players that are obviously good defenders will also have some real good opponent numbers there. So, if Lillard is performing that well in those comparative numbers, it's probably the case that his defense is better then it seems
does that means he's a good defender?...no, I don't buy that. What I do buy is what I sold in my previous post: that being that no NBA PG is that good at defending other NBA PG's. PG's are by and large simply too good at the dribble that when you factor in hand-check rules and all the pick and roll schemes, PG defenders just generally get torched