eyeatoma wrote:cgf wrote:eyeatoma wrote:
Those numbers are skewed because the Knicks are far better without Randle/Robinson/OG, than the Sixers are without Embiid.
Take a look at the metrics before Embiid went down. The Sixers are a lottery team, and Maxey is the only thing keeping them afloat without Embiid. The Sixers lost Maxey for 4 games, and they lost all 4 games.
There may be some noise coming in since the injuries hit...Brunson's assist are up without Randle to share the creative burden, and his On-Off has ballooned with us now generally losing the minutes he rests...but Jalen has been the better (& more efficient) scorer and had the better EPM/DARKO (by a meaningful margin) pretty much all season.
Not sure about their LEBRON's; only started checking that around the new year.
There's also the argument that the post-injury Knicks have been better than the post-injury 6ers because Brunson is a higher tier player than Maxey. Given that both have been their team's only primary creators since losing their star bigman.
Again without Embiid the Sixers are ass. The Knicks are performing well because of Brunson yes. But Hart has been incredible, so has DiVincenzo. They also have Bojan and Alec Burks. The Sixers have no one of that calibre. Oubre at best, but he's far more inconsistent than those two.
You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg with our starting front-court injured.
Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
If anything, we don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out, so it's Maxey that's getting the most help.
Capn'O wrote:We're the recovering meth addict older brother. And we've been clean for a few years now, thank you very much. Very uncouth to bring it up.
Brunson: So what are you paid to do?
Hart: Run around like an idiot during the game and f*** s*** up!