Towns vs Sengun vs Holmgren

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Best season currently

Karl Anthony Towns
7
54%
Alperen Sengun
3
23%
Chet Holmgren
3
23%
 
Total votes: 13

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Towns vs Sengun vs Holmgren 

Post#1 » by durantbird » Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:13 am

Who has the best season currently?
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Re: Towns vs Sengun vs Holmgren 

Post#2 » by kcktiny » Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:12 am

For a rookie Chet Holmgren's defense has been outstanding, while also scoring well with very good offensive efficiency.

Not hard to imagine a great two-way player on the rise.
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Re: Towns vs Sengun vs Holmgren 

Post#3 » by Colbinii » Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:49 am

Sengun.

Sengun is the youngest player here and has the most responsibility offensively. He has never been on a real NBA team in terms of talent or goals and he has been exceptional in taking the offensive lime light on a team with a defensive identity.

Towns is really impressive, and I said going into the season he will need to buy into a Pau Gasol esque role where he takes on a smaller volume but buy in defensively and as an efficiency monster and he has done exactly that.

Chet looks extremely comfortable for a "rookie" and has synergized exceptionally well next to an Offensive Savant in SGA.
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Re: Towns vs Sengun vs Holmgren 

Post#4 » by LukaTheGOAT » Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:38 am

I'll go Chet.

He's at worst a top 10 defender in the sport, while arguably adding strongly positive value on offense in his role.


Chet Holmgren
19.9 pts per 75 (rTS% of 6.9%)

EPM-5.3
Box-Lebron (Dec. 12 update)-3.440
Backpicks BPM-3.7
Time-Decayed RAPM-2.98

Karl Anthony Towns
25.1 pts per 75 (rTS% of 6.4%)

EPM-3.3
Box-Lebron (Dec. 12 update)-2.416
Backpicks BPM-5.1
Time-Decayed RAPM-2.03


Alperen Sengun
22.7 pts per 75 (rTS% of 0.9%)

EPM-3.2
Box-Lebron (Dec. 12 update)-2.538
Backpicks BPM-4.5
Time-Decayed RAPM-0.91

I think Karl Anthony Towns and Sengun doing better in Backpicks BPM, tracks, because as Ben has stated, the metric is probably slanted toward offense. I think Towns and Sengun have good arguments for being better than Chet offensively.

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