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JojoSlimbiid wrote:Yeah this is starting to look like something Colangelo drummed up to distract the media from the Embiid injury and the Simmons nonsense. What a complete abject failure this guy has been.
bball4life wrote:MNSixerFan wrote:Arsenal wrote:
#1) Young players tend to suck at defense. Seeing a rookie defend like Embiid does (or Noel did) is pretty rare. Especially in today's switch heavy defensive schemes that have to face a ton of P&R.
#2) There's no chance Towns is the "worst" defender at the Center position. These +/- based stats like RPM have to be taken with a huge grain of salt. There are a ton of factors that affect them.
Watch almost every game, Towns is terrible on D.
Just watched first half of wolves versus cavs. Holy crap is he awful on D. Just stands at the left corner of the free throw line and does nothing. Lebron ran pas him at least 4 times for uncontested dunks. Tristan clowning him down low too. How is Thibs putting up with this?
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marcush wrote:Towns has a motor though. I would expect him to improve significantly.
marcush wrote:Towns has a motor though. I would expect him to improve significantly.
TTP wrote:hookshot199 wrote:TTP wrote:
I presented my argument for why I disagree using RPM, on/off splits, team record, rebounding rates, etc.
You've indicated many times that you oppose my view but as far as I can tell, you haven't stated why. Why do you say he had a good rookie season?
Compared to what? Someone who plays 10 mpg and comes in during garbage time? Or someone who plays almost exclusively in the D League and then gets cut? Or someone who plays when Stephan Curry is in the lineup verus someone who played when Hinkie got it in his head that Isiah Canaan could play point?
I'll give you 50 years of rookies, not 20 or 30 if wish to persist, and Okafor is in the upper half. He wasn't the main reason the Sixers were bad last year. And I went through the list of top 15 or top 16 and you tried to argue that guys who played 10 or mpg had better seasons. No they didn't.
It doesn't need to be relative but maybe let's say compared to the average NBA player that played 1000+ minutes if that makes it easier.
I disagree though - I think he was one of the primary reasons the Sixers were bad last year (as well as this year when he plays).
As for the last sentence, it depends on your perspective. From my perspective, a D League level player that played less than 200 minutes all year at an atrocious level of play is going to be less detrimental than someone who played 1500 minutes at a slightly less detrimental level. The former player might be worse when he's on the court on a per minute basis, but the latter player is more harmful to his team's success.
Conversely, let's say someone was incredible and actually better than Steph Curry on a per minute basis but only played 200 minutes. I wouldn't say that player was the best (or one of the best) players in the league last season.
However, I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to have that point of view so I'll revise my statement to "of players that played a significant amount of minutes per game last season, Okafor was one of the worst players in the league".
bball4life wrote:marcush wrote:Towns has a motor though. I would expect him to improve significantly.
Isn't the very definition of a motor hustle and effort? All I see is him lazily moving around except when he has the ball down low on offense.
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LongLiveHinkie wrote:John Gonzalez reporting Okafor is indeed back with the Sixers.
What an absolute clusterf this whole thing has been
LongLiveHinkie wrote:John Gonzalez reporting Okafor is indeed back with the Sixers.
What an absolute clusterf this whole thing has been
LongLiveHinkie wrote:John Gonzalez reporting Okafor is indeed back with the Sixers.
What an absolute clusterf this whole thing has been