JMAC3 wrote:Yeah I just think the whole Paolo story is out of hand and everyone seems to be clinging to this very small data point that is impacted by guys around him and not just him.
You aren't talking about me though, right? I laid out multiple data points
Yes, he isn't a good shooter, but he is also 6-10 and is top 10 in FTA per game.
He is a bad shooter. We should just be honest, right? 31.4% 3P, 32.0% last year. He is also inefficient, even though he lives at the free throw line; he is somehow right around Ausar Thompson, Ja Morant, and Draymond Green in terms of True Shooting Added.
To put this into perspective about how inefficient he is, here is a list of PF/C in the Bottom 50 of League-Wide TS+.
Draymond Green
Paolo Banchero
Keegan Murray
Bam Adebayo
Danny Wolf
Jarace Walker
Patrick Williams
Nikola Jovic
P.J. Washington
Basically, a ton of limited offensive players whose defense is their calling card, a couple of young guys, and Paolo Banchero.
He is average to good defender.
Good? Heavens no. He ranks negative to neutral in the following:
DBPM
DRAPM
MAMBA
DARKO
LEBRON
EPM
He is one of the best passing players in the league for his position.
That's...it could be true.
Unfortunately for Paolo, he is so inefficient offensively that his passes don't create good looks for his teammates. That's the value of passing; it needs to generate good offense. In a laboratory setting, Paolo's passing ability is a major boon to his skill set. In reality, his passing isn't enhancing the offense.
He is extremely young and already been to the playoffs twice.
He is one year younger than ANT and Cade. He is the same age as Brandon Miller and Josh Giddey.
Meanwhile guys like Lauri Markkanen, Jalen Johnson, Jaren Jackson, Shaedon Sharpe etc can just hang out on bad teams and nobody is constantly overanalyzing every 5 game sample set.
I never brought these names up before. Who in this thread is bringing them up?
Were any of these players #1 overall picks? Does anyone here actually think any of these players can be the best player on a good team? Of course not. Most can't even be the 2nd best player on a good team.
That's the point all of us are making.
NBA fans are just funny, if Cade doesn't go far in the playoffs this year, people will start to create narratives around him and then all of sudden him shooting 35-45 times a game will become the narrative.
They might, but I won't. This is an incredible strawman, but that's the poster you are. You fabricate these narratives that you then project others to be saying, and then argue against the same fictitious strawman narratives you yourself create.
You fail to address real, nuanced arguments and fail to entertain adult discussion, and instead live in a strawman building you create for yourself and call everyone else out for believing in a strawman you created.
