therealbig3 wrote:DavidStern wrote:There's no area except of experience as a leader (and it matters less here, because at the end of the season and in the playoffs he was again in Jordan's shadow) where 95 Pippen was better than '94 Pippen (for example difference in 3pt shooting is because of rules change, not Pippen's improvement!).
95 Pippen winning 27 spot by getting only three (!) votes is the biggest question mark on this project so far.
Ok, so slightly better RS stats proves 94 Pippen was better? 95 Pippen was better in the playoffs, other than scoring less (because of Jordan).
What about leading a +3.8 SRS team without Grant in the lineup vs +4.3 SRS with Grant in the lineup in 94? Minimal dropoff despite losing their 2nd best player.
And maybe more people should vote next time, it's not anyone else's fault that they didn't.
So by that logic Grant was only a +0.5 player.
You can't just assign SRS numbers like that to determine how good a player was. Results are affected by a variety of things: coaching, other players, referees...
If the case for '95 Pippen is that he made Grant look like a 0.5 SRS player, well, I don't think I, nor anyone thinking on the same lines as me, would ever be convinced.