lorak wrote:bondom34 wrote:
I know the RPM issue, but by evanzs numbers Harden has a better DPoY case. Ariza is nothing remotely special this year.
Ariza's DRAPM is more than 20% better than Harden's...
Ariza is 12th overall and in top 5 among players with many minutes played...
So are you sure you saw EvanZ's numbers?
Look, here are all players better than Ariza sorted by "DRAPM*MINUTES PLAYED" to show (not exactly of course, just to give you some idea about it) how big total impact on defense they had through whole season:Code: Select all
"DRAPM*MIN" DRAPM MIN PLAYER
-7612.0 -3.0 2529 Trevor Ariza
-7418.1 -3.3 2258 Draymond Green
-7396.1 -3.7 2024 Khris Middleton
-6211.6 -3.3 1856 DeMarcus Cousins
-6137.5 -3.9 1580 Nene Hilario
-6101.4 -3.0 2014 Jeff Teague
-5797.0 -4.2 1372 Manu Ginobili
-5653.4 -3.3 1692 Kawhi Leonard
-5439.9 -3.4 1618 Alan Anderson
-5073.0 -3.3 1524 C.J. Miles
-4675.8 -3.1 1530 Jared Dudley
-2928.2 -3.4 860 Thabo Sefolosha
So race for DPOTY should be three men race according to DRAPM and Ariza deserves to be among them. Kawhi, Cousins (he made big leap this year) or even always underrated Nene also would be in the discussion if only they didn't miss so much time.
Harden was excellent when I looked, and still Green looks as good as TA plus plays defense against more positions. And Ariza is poor offensively. He's just not very good this year.
Edit, just pulled up EvanZs sheet again. Its showing me Harden at -3.7.
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1 Manu Ginobili -5.16
3
2 Draymond Green -5.02
4
3 Markieff Morris -4.60
5
4 DeMarcus Cousins -4.37
6
5 Kawhi Leonard -4.33
7
6 Thabo Sefolosha -4.18
8
7 Tony Allen -4.12
9
8 C.J. Miles -4.08
10
9 Nene Hilario -4.06
11
10 Khris Middleton -3.86
12
11 Anthony Davis -3.86
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12 Avery Bradley -3.80
14
13 James Harden -3.75
15
14 Alan Anderson -3.61
16
15 Cody Zeller -3.46
17
16 Stephen Curry -3.39
18
17 Kyle Lowry -3.39
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18
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute
-3.33
20
19 Ben McLemore -3.29
21
20 Henry Walker -3.27
22
21 Damian Lillard -3.26
23
22 Tim Duncan -3.20
24
23 Patrick Mills -3.20
25
24 Jeff Teague -3.0 Curry -3.39
17 Kyle Lowry -3.39