toooskies wrote:tamaraw08 wrote:toooskies wrote:I usually look at a star player on a bad team and compare their efficiency to the rest of the team to see if they are better off playing around the central piece.
LaMelo's got a pretty bad TS% at 54.0%, but the team as a whole is at 53.5%. On the whole his usage isn't taking away from his team.
2nd in Usage Rate
339th in True Shooting Percentage
336th in Net Rating
456th in Defensive Rating
1st in 3pt FGA/gm (11.7/gm)
143rd in 3pt FG% (33.6%)
3rd worst AST/TO of all starting PG's (just ahead of Ja Morant and Coby White)
But you saw the other horrible stats like assist to turnover and DRTG too right?
Also how his team is paying him so much money which begs the question, is Charlotte better off using cheaper more efficient players like SPJ, Tyus Jones then using their precious dollars on better SG's?
Congratulations, you've cherry-picked some stats that reflect poorly on LaMelo. LaMelo might have a bad Net Rating but he has a +4.0 on-off-- Net Rating rank just means he's on a bad team. Maybe because he's one of the top offensive players in the league by EPM (11th) and LEBRON (14th). See, I can cherry pick positive stuff too.
I generally don't expect tanking teams to play defense much at all. Put LaMelo in a competitive context and maybe starts playing better D. Maybe he doesn't. But defensive stats inherently collect not only a player's defensive ability but also the ability of his teammates to cover for it. Given he's playing with a bunch of young guys and defensive sieves, he gets none of the cover that players on good defensive teams get.
LaMelo's fine, he's just wasting time on a bad team.
When exactly did Charlotte start tanking?
They hired a new coach then held on to their good assets and just started trading them like a couple of weeks ago.
They started 4-4 if you take away the losses to NBA champ Celtics beating the likes of Rockets, Pacers, Pistons.
And you make it sound like the are they are the ultimate worst on defense when they are currently ranked 17th in DRTG (better than Spurs, Pacers, Knicks) which is actually better than their previous 4 seasons AND BTW, Lamelo has been CONSISTENLY BAD ON DRTG even with his athletic body at 6-7.
Trey Young can get a pass for being too short but the freaking 6-7 athleetic Lamelo?
And it's not just defensive stats.
He is chucking almost 12 3's at HIS CAREER LOW 3PT%
AND 2nd lowest assists/game.
