Scase wrote:BL% is not noisy, it clearly correlates to the best blocking players in the game. The more blocks you manage, the higher the number is. This is pretty basic. Scottie isn't putting up 3.2% by accident or because of one game, JJJ isn't putting up 5.8% by accident either. Siakam has never been good at blocks, but he is at an all time low.
Siakam has gone from 1.3% last year to 0.5% this year.
Scotitie has gone from 2.2% last year to 3.2 this year
JJJ has gone from 9.6% last year to 5.8% this year.
All 3 players have experienced a massive swing in blocks per game one way or the other. Crazy to say JJJ is not evidence of noise when he put up wildly different block % number year over year, as low as 5% and as high as 10%.
You say all it requires is "one good game", but when that good game would be 6 or more blocks, completely ignoring that Siakam has never in his entire career managed a single game that good. And has had a total of 5 games in a 491 game career where he even recorded 4 blocks, kinda undermines the whole "all he needs is one" argument.
Fine, call it "one good week" if that makes you feel better.
Yeah for his sake that should only take another 8-16 seasons at this rate. The same way Jak would only need 1 good game of shooting 6/6 from 3 to be an 80% 3pt shooter. Just cause it can technically happen, doesn't mean reality dictates it is even remotely likely to.
What are you even talking about here with 8-16 seasons?
TOV% 6 turnovers isn't a miniscule amount, 0.3TO a game is miniscule if you average 0. But it's a pretty noticeable amount when you average 2.7. He's averaging 2.7 this year, the years that preceded it are 2.4 > 2.7 >2.3 > 2.5, it's not exactly a "just 6 turnovers" because it's right in line with what he has in the past....but higher, which is my point.
The fact you post his yearly numbers of 2.4, 2.7, 2.3, and 2.5 and don't realize how mimimal his 2.7 this year vs his 2.5 average over the last 4 years is just comical. You are looking at small sample noise and drawing conclusions from it.
PER I've already stated it's a take it or leave it, but it's another data point. But using rebounds as an excuse? Come on dude lmao. He's averaging 7.2 this year, last year he averaged 7.8. His PER dropped from 20.3 to 16, you're gonna explain that with half a rebound a game?
PER is a stat that uses counting stats. Siakam has lower usage overall, as well as moved to a PF vs C position and is grabbing less rebounds. It is not shocking his PER has dropped.
Using PER as indicative of anything is cringe worthy, especailly when it is just catch all of everything you have already said. It is not some new additional point, it is just the same (wrong) point posted twice.
I was never suggesting the drops were colossal, otherwise I would have stated as much. I specificed which stats were down pretty noticeably, but the point was overall his entire impact is down. Which was in stark contrast to a "his overall efficiency isnt far off".
So all off-season all we heard is Siakam needs to take on less, then Siakam takes on less, and then we blast Siakam for his base counting stats for decreasing  
 Because that is all you have here. His base box score stats, in a small 20 game sample, have decreased SLIGHTLY (not even significantly). Cool.