JTrain wrote:AtheJ415 wrote:JTrain wrote:
PER is, of course, not perfect, but it's one of the best advanced stats we have. (FWIW - Len is also last in WS/48).
If there was a coherent point after the first sentence, I failed to decipher it.
There were plenty of coherent points, but you aren't very good at deciphering.
For instance, your premise states that Omer Asik was better than Alex Len last year. Nobody with eyes would agree.
Also, No was my first sentence, so you responded to the second one.![]()
The last sentence was simply stating that we win because of our backcourt--not our front court. If I ranked Thabo and Perkins and even a younger Ibaka on similar stats through much of Durant and Westbrook's reign in OKC, it would look just as ugly. We have one of the best backcourts in basketball and you're saying we can't win because of our front court while eliminating the back court from the discussion. How do the Wizards look in that scenario also?
Had one of the best backcourts. Dragic and IT were a large part of it.
I would take Len over Asik, but head over to the General board and make a poll and you will see your statement there is simply empirically false (unless you can prove there are a lot of eyeless people over there). But the point is not about arguing PER specifically. The point is that our front court is really bad compared to the other teams in the West by most respected measurements. And we don't really know what our backcourt will be like, but the small sample size thus far indicates that it won't be nearly as good as the previous one.
I don't need to. I can head over to a Pelicans board and ask them what they think of Asik, as I have seen ALL season whenever I check their boards.
We know that our back court is still one of the best in basketball. It's no stretch to say that. It's not as if we haven't seen them play the game of basketball before. We have seen them separately enough to know they are good players. And that still doesn't address that judging any team by its worst 3 starters looks bad except for 2 or 3 teams in the entire league. In fact, going back historically to some of the great teams would have ridiculous results. It's just a truly awful premise.