MartyConlonJr wrote:lobosloboslobos wrote:I'm not disagreeing with your conclusions but context helps too. As shown above OG has the hardest defensive assignments in the league, and mostly only rests when the star he is guarding is off the floor. So it's not that surprising that the difference (-2.2 Drtg in/out) between him defending Durant or Giannis or Ja or Luka or Harden on the floor and them being both off the floor is not that big. His impact is the difference he makes when he is on the floor and generally keeping those guys well below their season averages. Just saying.
Are you saying the other top contenders for DPOY are not doing this? Either not being put on the other teams best offensive player or playing bench players?
I'm saying that according to that tweet above - if you click it - OG is in the 99th percentile in matchup difficulty in the league as a defender. That is as high as you can get. And when you combine that with the fact he is also the most versatile defender in the league it shows that on any given night he defends superstars as physically different as Giannis or Embiid or CP3 or Ja or whoever the best offensive player on the other team is regardless of what size they are or what position they play. And sure while there are other guys who do that to some degree, the stats show that nobody does it like OG does. Which makes that 21% shooting average against him in iso all the more sick.
also what cupcakesnake said.