stuporman wrote:Chanel Bomber wrote:stuporman wrote:
Screaming man would like to have a word with you...
Even if I agree that Jokic is the better player on the better team but you make it sound like he's as bad of a defender as your binky Burks.
Brunson plays with effort on defense but he's still a negative defensively. It's not his fault per se, but the reality is that he's not a positive factor on defense. That's not insignificant when you assess a player's overall impact.
Well, I'd like to inform your binary bound brain that life isn't just two sides. Just because he's not a 'net positive', and that's your opinion not fact or reality, doesn't mean he's a 'net positive'. He can be a 'net neutral' on defense, where he has match ups that are positive or negative for him, or situations that are either positive or negative for him creating a neutral effect.
Some assume because of his limitations that he's always a 'net negative' and in some instances that is accurate but it isn't across the board or in every circumstance that he's a net negative. I guess you'd rather go with assumptive narratives to make broad assessments but as screaming man so clearly points out, those aren't always the case. He makes plays that Burks can only dream of on both ends of the court.
Thanks for taking this opportunity to insult my intelligence when there was a window for civilized dialogue. I hope it makes you feel better about yourself.
We can have an endless debate on what constitutes as "fact" but there are now metrics that do a credible job of capturing defensive performance based on sound methodology. And these players all fall somewhere on a spectrum.
Most of these metrics suggest Brunson's a below-0 contributor on defense, i.e. a negative on defense. Of course his defensive impact will fluctuate depending on matchups but even if we assumed (contrary to the most advanced statistical evidence that we have) that Jalen's impact on defense was overall neutral, he would still fall short of SGA (All-NBA defender), Tatum and Jokic (and obviously Embiid). And this introduces a significant deficit that he would need to make up for on the other end to match them in overall impact. He doesn't in the case of Jokic and SGA (and Embiid).