thelead wrote:If people don't think JI's defense won games, you're clueless about basketball. JI was not 'carried' to the playoffs lol. He isn't a reliable scorer but that is equally dumb as me saying JI's defense 'carried' Vuc's offense to the playoffs.
you look at his stats, and sure we did play bit better with him ( +0,7 net rating of him, Magic net rating of -1,3 overall) but in terms of cold blooded facts and wins, we had 18-21 record without him and 15-19 with him so we actually won more games ( by slim margin) when he didn't play.
It' doesn't change fact that he was positive contributor when he did play. But people here try to paint him into Pippen/ David Robinson in terms of impact where his impact is more like Myles Turner, who leads league in blocks but nobody gives a flying f*** about.
It's such a meaningless data that i had to check to even have any clue who is in top 5. Chris Boucer ( bench player), Noel ( bench player), Jakob Poelti ( fringe starter ) are in top 6.
Isaac is good player, but if you think he will make any difference on a team where Cole Anthony, Hampton and other clueless bodies are running team, you are fooling yourself. If anything, both him and Fultz wlil get pretty much exposed as one can't run offense and other doesn't have offense. But let's save that talk for next year.
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