why do ppl think russ didnt carry?

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Re: why do ppl think russ didnt carry? 

Post#21 » by One_and_Done » Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:36 am

Uhuh. How does it compare to Lebron's Cavs? Spoilers; the Cavs dropped 14 in SRS (and 42 wins!) after Lebron left in 2010. Russell isn't just getting compared to anyone. People are claiming he's a GOAT level player. By those standards an SRS decrease of 7 is nothing to write home about. The team dropped 14 more games. Meh.
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Re: why do ppl think russ didnt carry? 

Post#22 » by OhayoKD » Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:32 am

One_and_Done wrote:Uhuh. How does it compare to Lebron's Cavs? Spoilers; the Cavs dropped 14 in SRS (and 42 wins!) after Lebron left in 2010. Russell isn't just getting compared to anyone. People are claiming he's a GOAT level player. By those standards an SRS decrease of 7 is nothing to write home about. The team dropped 14 more games. Meh.

8 health adjusted, but srs is naturally lower in a smaller league and when the best teams are +6, +8(at the very end of your career) is pretty goatish.

There's also the matter of russell beating a team better than anyone Lebron has beat and another team that would rank among the very best.

This is all era-relative of course, but era-relative, in a league where the best competition sometimes was +2, russell's lift is probably on a tier of its own
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Re: why do ppl think russ didnt carry? 

Post#23 » by One_and_Done » Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:45 am

Disagree with everything you just said except the part about era.
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