deeney0 wrote:Rashad McCants sucks.
I'll edit this with supporting arguments later.
Alright, gents, here we go. Mostly statistical, using the previous season’s stats.
Let’s start with efficiency. Shad is inefficient. EFF of 11.2, EFFper48 of 19.94. The former is 143rd in the NBA, the latter 208th in the NBA. In one or both categories, he trails players such as Kirk Snyder, Kyle Lowry, Matt Bonner, Anthony Carter, Sasha Vujacic, CJ Miles, Brent Barry, Dorrell Wright, Ben Gordon, Sam Cassell, Coby Karl… I could go on and on. He trails Randy Foye, too, but that’s really not the point of this.
Shad is inefficient because the only positive he brings to the court is scoring. He doesn’t pass well, he doesn’t rebound well. 2.7 RPG, 2.2 APG. A good starting SG has to produce more than that.
Rebounds: Mike Miller? 6.7 RPG. Kobe Bryant? 6.3. Jason Richardson, Tracy McGrady, Monta Ellis. All over 5. Brandon Roy, Manu Ginobili, Bonzi Wells, Joe Johnson, Kevin Martin, Michael Redd, Dwayne Wade, Anthony Parker. All over 4.
Assists: Dwayne Wade, 6.9. Brandon Roy, Tracy McGrady, Joe Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, Jamal Crawford over 5. Tons of non-true-PG guards ahead of 3.5, including Mike Miller, Randy Foye, and Marko Jaric.
It’s not as if Shad isn’t passing though. 2.3 TO per game. That’s 43rd in the NBA. TOper48, he’s at 4.1,
8th in the NBA. Ahead of him? Wade, Nash, Kidd, Williams, Anthony, Ginobili, Josh Smith, and Dwight Howard. Those guys make up for their TOs WAY, WAY, WAY more than Shaddy does. Except for Howard, they’ve all got higher A/TO. Except for Howard, Williams, and Nash, they’ve all got higher STL/TO. They’re all a ton more efficient.
It’s not only the turnovers that hurt, though. 3.1 PF per game is second among guards in the league only to Vince Carter, whose 3.2 come in 12 more minutes per game. Shad’s 5.6 PFper48 is also second, this time to Tony Allen’s 5.9. Royal Ivy and Nick Young are the only other guards over 5. Rashad commits an outrageously unacceptable amount of fouls. At one point early last season, he trailed only Shaq in 6 PF games.
I’m willing to go so far as to say McCants is one of the 10 best scoring guards in the NBA. His shot is simply beautiful. When he wants to, he can put it on the floor and take it to the basket. He’s a dynamic scorer. But a team can’t win if they play a guard like McCants as anything more than a 6th man, and maybe even not that. Those mistakes add up considerably.