dougthonus wrote:Jcool0 wrote:dougthonus wrote:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/giddejo01/splits/2025
If you don't think he was playing awful, be my guest. I wouldn't even give him the MLE if his pre-all-star game performance was his norm.
He was contributing just not scoring:
Nov. - Jan: 7.2 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 1.2 steals
Feb. - April: 9.5 rebounds, 8.1 assists, 1.4 steals
PPG Nov - Jan: 11
PPG Feb - April: 20.2
Also:
Defending at a near bottom of league level
Well below average offensive efficiency
Low volume for a primary ball handler
Poor shooter
Poor at drawing fouls
Worse A/TO ratio
Yeah, he wasn't scoring, but things like his foul draw rate and three point percentage were much worse, so even in lower volume he was also much worse at everything he was trying to do. He was also defending much worse. If we get that version of Giddey after his new contract, it will be an albatross.
I'm not suggesting that Giddey is necessarily going to go back in time to the pre-Zach trade version of himself, but if he did it would be a disaster. It's certainly not a zero risk given the good version of Giddey was a remarkably short period of time against largely teams that were tanking.
I said scoring. Everything you said relates to that. Its hard to draw fouls if you aren't taking shots. His defense was fine all year.
