Is Facu Campazzo the worst player in the NBA?

[eathb_au]

Facu Campazzo's by minutes definition is the Nuggets 6th man this season and to be honest there is no justfication for this.

Of the 38 games he has played this year:

Only 6 times has he had a positive +/-

The opponents in those games have been HOU, POR (w/o Lillard), ATL, NYK, SAS (2x).

He has had 2 games with a 0 +/- -

He has had 30 games with a negative +/-

The Nuggets are 13pts better per 100 offensively when he's off the court

The Nuggets are 10pts better per 100 defensively when he's off the court

The Nuggets shoot 5% better (EFG%) when he's off the floor

The Nuggets have a lower Turnover % when he's off the floor

The Nuggets Opponents shoot 5% worse (EFG%) when he's off the floor

The Nuggets Opponents shoot FTs less frequently when he's off the floor

The Nuggets Opponents get less OREBs when he's off the floor

So he has been a net negative on ~80% of the games hes played and has only been a positive against non-playoff teams. The Nuggets are +23 pts better with him off the floor per 100, 10+pts better both offensively and defensively. The team is shooting, defending, & rebounding better and turning the ball over less and their opponents are shooting worse, with less FTs, and less OREBs when he's on the bench.

Facu’s -23.5 on/off differential is 1st percentile in the league. My god.

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Facundo Campazzo is -234 this season, the worst +/- by a player on a .500 team. That’s -111 worse than the next worst player.

Over the last 22 games, Facu has shot 34% from the field and is averaging 25 minutes per night over that span.

Facu has scored 2 points or less in 5 of his last 7 games. He's played 106 minutes over that stretch.

Facu takes 63% of his total attempts from 3. According to NBA.com 90% of those are open or wide open. He makes 31% of those shots.

Jokic is +263 this season. In the 335 minutes (25% of Jokic's total minutes) with Facu he is -16.

Facu has a negative 6 net rating with Jokic. The only player on the Nuggets to have played over 25 minutes with Jokic and have a negative net rating with him.

Every player on Denver's bench; Bones, Ja Green, Zeke, and Austin Rivers are worse when playing with Facu no matter how you work the lineup combinations. All bench or mixed starters. Worse with Facu on the court.

He's clearly well liked by the team and I also enjoy watching the effort he plays with, but at the end of the day he's basically a 10 pt swing in the wrong direction 4/5 games.

The on/off numbers that gets used to suggest Nikola Jokic is the MVP would suggest that Facu is the LVP. Yin and Yang right now.

[Kingdibs19]

Yes

[Golden Knight]

and it's not even close?

[KokoKaizer]

Facundo needed to be exposed I guess

[Ballerhogger]

Yes?

[Ugly0598]

They need Murray back ASAP. Morris is a huge upgrade when you can just DNP Rivers and Campazzo.

[Tracymcgoaty]

i Remember when i said Lin is not worse than guys like Campazzo and people scoffed like Facu is on a different level. Lin is better than that scrub.

[The Rebel]

I don't think Facu is the worst player in the NBA, not by a long shot, but he is a terrible fit on the Nuggets.

He is best with the ball in his hands in a higher paced offense, even without Jokic on the court we run 3 PG as our reserves meaning that 3 guys need the ball in their hands to be most effective, and at one of the slowest paces in the league. A team like the

He is also bad at defending starting point guards like Ja, he is okay guarding backup guards and can create havoc at times. But he is depends on his quickness more than anything so quick/athletic guys like Ja and Fox kill him.

ON the right team that has a bunch of guys who can shoot and finish off the bench and just need a distributor off the bench he would be great on but the Nuggets bench is more filled with defenders than anything.

[whatisacenter]

I would take a Campazzo over a Chiozza

[xdrta+]

I would take a Campazzo over a Chiozza

Chiozza is a two-way player, so he's not even on an NBA roster. He's on a G-league roster.

[KembaWalker]

Probably Poku if he's still in the league. That guy sucks

[Hoop Heavy]

The eye test says NO.

Don't remember if he's running the second unit, then all those numbers can be as much about the quality of the bench, than just about him as an individual. Still, I agree that the numbers look horrible for the Nuggets.

[Sgt Major]

He's terrible. Malone playing him and Forbes and Bones at the same time isn't helping either.

[azcatz11]

Is he like a poor man’s Delly?

[bstein14]

Killian Hayes is the worst player in the league that averages 20+ minutes per game.

[HotelVitale]

Interesting numbers and they're strong enough to suggest he's having a truly crap season, but it doesn't seem possible that he's actually a worse player than a number of young players getting big burn because teams are developing them (and tanking). He might be having a worse season than many of those folks overall, but he's not a worse player in general.

[Tracymcgoaty]

Killian Hayes is the worst player in the league that averages 20+ minutes per game.

Hayes is 10 years younger than Facu. At least the hopes of improvement is there. Facu is a scrub playing 22 mpg while being 30 years old.

[Statlanta]

It's more likely the worst player in the NBA is on the worst team in the NBA.

[Lockdown504090]

His role is too big, he’s. a situational player getting more consistent minutes than he should. He’s not as bad as these numbers suggest at all

[Sharkboy242]

Malone is absolutely obsessed with this man