MartinsIzAfraud wrote:three3d wrote:Bergmaniac wrote:The swing in Isaac's impact numbers from last year to this one is just wild. He led the team in on/off rating last year with 12.7 and now he is dead last with -11.7. This pretty much never happens without a major injury or a complete overhaul of the roster and the role of the player in question.
I’m completely baffled by his minutes restriction, I don’t think we can call it anything other than that. You’d think if it as weight related the simple solution would be to play him and change his diet so he could lose weight. Shooting is muscle memory more than anything really, JI didn’t “Hulk” up so the amount of bricks and air balls he’s shooting is unexplainable.
his body can't handle more minutes and that's obvious. The FO knows it, Mose knows it & the Dr's know it.
If you know somebody can't play more than 13-15 mpg for 60% of nba games, you simply don't resign him.
This is Biyombo level stupidity to bring somebody so limited , into so limited role and pay him so much.
So i will use same argument i had against Biyombo. It's simply stupidity to pay big money for defensive minded big. They simply don't play enough min to be worth money. But let's get bit deeper.
Guy plays 13 min a game, so he is part of 25-ish possessiosn a game.
So he plays on some 12-14 defensive possessions, even best defender in history would not actually impact more than 4, but let's be very generous and say he impacts 5. ( he doesn't), good teams know how to avoid elite defenders.
In same time, he brings -26 points (negative) by shooting his 5 shots a game , according to BB reference.
Unlike some Gobert, he brings no offensive rebounds nor extra possessions. Unlike some Draymoond Green, he has negative assist to TO rate.
But biggest problem is fact that he is neither suited to play PF nor C.
He does not know how to defend at C nor he is actually all that great defender vs bigs. On offense he has zero C - needed skills.
At PF he shoots 20% from mid range and 24% for 3.
In past 10 games, he menaged to put ball through hoop 13 times total.
So what's the point of paying defensive specialist, backup C big money? To impact 3 possessions a game at average?
This isn't just theory, You have Onyeka Okongwu, also lottery pick, in eyes of fans, media and advanced stats he is "elite backup C" because of his defense. Yet, Hawks are 4-3 without him this year, 14-15 with him.
Hawks were 13-14 without him,23-32 with him last year.
And unlike Isaac, he plays serious min, but again, due how specific and limited his role is there will never be enough possessions for him to impact, to make his impact actuallly- impactful.
Advanced stats screwed up nba in some sense. People look at backups with crazy impact numbers and think those numbers would hold vs starters or are sustainable in different settings.
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