bastillon wrote:so drza you're punishing Nash for relatively poor boxscore statistics ?
From my perspective I'm not "punishing" Nash. I just don't think he's as good as those other players. Like I said about KG in another thread, with these years that I remember well observation is my first criterion. It's only been in the last few years that I started really getting into advanced stats, so it wasn't Nash's box score stats that made me think he wasn't as good as those players. Then later, once I did start to have some more quantitative tools to re-examine things with, I didn't see anything compelling to change my mind. You guys did a better job of advocating for Nash than I expected, because honestly I felt like he was better in later years when I didn't vote for him than he was in '05 but you did a good job of selling me on him in that year and getting him into my top-5.
But I'm not punishing Nash. I like him as a player. In fact, I generally pull for his teams and will be again in this upcoming series. And he's a great player, always has been. I just don't think he's ever been the best-of-the-best.
