YogurtProducer wrote:maternal85 wrote:All these analytical nerds and their bad efficiency narrative. The same nerds will somehow flip useless players stats like Ochai, JFL, Nwora, etc, and claim how they're a better prospect than Banton. Apparently any 3rd stringer can put up 20ppg- 30ppg according to some. Ochai couldn't throw a ball in the ocean. But these analytical nerds will show how he's a lethal 3 point shooter from the corner. Was it the left or right corner again ?
Ochai is also somehow a defensive stopper like OG now lol. If Banton is a nothing prospect, just keep the same energy for our other "prospects" as well. But losing Banton isn't an issue. I agree.
This bias is just sickening. Along with the analytical nerds gaslighting people to fit their narrative.
What is with the anger man I hate this notion form some that using a form of stats and actual, well, evidence is pushed aside because we are "nerds"?
Ochai is just indisputably a better prospect than Banton. The league agrees (which is why one was the 14th pick and one was a mid 2nd), and also why one has been a regular rotation player in the NBA from day 1 and the other is having his best stretch of his career by putting up below average efficiency points on a bottom 5 team after being literally given away by two other franchises.
But FWIW - Ochai is a good corner 3 shooter. In his career, 48% from the right corner and 38% from the left corner. You can ignore that all you want but it is just the truth. Not to mention he shot 37% from 3 over 4 seasons in college. There is like... a lot of evidence that Agbaji has a 3 point shot in him.
That is also reflected in the fact he has shot 44% from mid range and 39% from long 2 in his career. That has not yet shown in Toronto as his shot has been pretty bad, but there is a reason why you don't look at 17 game samples to draw conclusions.
Banton on the other hand shot 24% from 3 in college, has shot 31% in his NBA career, and there is next to no evidence the shot might come around. He shoots 31% and 22% from the corners, and is a 27% mid range shooter.
Just funny that "Ochai cant throw a ball in the ocean" yet he is twice the shooter Banton is But hey - don't let the stats (facts) bias you.
I stopped reading when you put importance on draft position after a few years in the league. You know what you're trying to do. It won't work. Ochai the amazing prospect has been a starter for championship teams, he's such an amazing prospect, yet he's been traded around a few times, and basically given away for free by the Jazz.