nate33 wrote:payitforward wrote:Porzingis is great when he's great & fun to watch. But, despite what fans think, he actually isn't helping us win.
Porzingis is the best player on the team by a mile. It's not even close. He is hyper efficient on heavy volume on offense, and he is the only 2-way player on the team. Every summary statistic out there, whether based on on/off regressions or box scores, has him as a top 25 player. He is absolutely helping us win.
All good points, & I could have been a little clearer.
You can't be helping a team win if the team isn't winning, & we aren't winning. We're 31-37 & project to win 37 or maybe 38 games.
Of course, we might do a bit better than that... or a bit worse.
Still, through 83% of the season, that's where we are -- hence it's a pretty reliable measure of how good our team is as a whole. &, how good a team we are amounts to the same thing as how good our players are (even though Wizards fans, like the fans of all teams in all sports, no doubt think their players are better than, in reality, they are).
After 68 games
last year, our record was 29-39. We went on to win 35 games.
So, it's fair to say that we're a little bit better than we were last year.
Last year at this point we were at .426. This year it's .456.
That's how much better this team is than last year's team. Percentage-wise, we are 3% better. Now... 3% is within a margin of error in a subject area of this kind, wouldn't you say?
In short, there's really not a lot of reason to say we've improved as a team. Not a lot at all.
& what have been the biggest changes since last year, nate? Well, KCP is gone, while Morris, Wright & Barton were here. But, of course, the biggest changes from last year were actually put in place at the deadline last year: Dinwiddie, Bertans & Harrell out, Porzingis in.
& you see our record.
Hence, when I say KP isn't helping us win, in fact I am doing no more than repeating what you said in the little exchange about the WP48 roll up -- which was, essentially, if I remember right (& I will check as soon as I submit this post) this:
nate33 wrote:...The best player IS the player who helps a team win the most. By what other metric are we calling a guy a good player?
Yep, that is where the rubber meets the road. &, given our record, I'd say we need a new set of tires!
edit: to put it another way -- dumping Spence, Davis, KCP & Harrell for Porzingis, Wright & Morris* was supposed to make us a better team. Our record is the result.
* along with letting go of Bryant & Ish & Neto & Holiday.
