BigSlam wrote:MPM wrote:Interesting to note that almost every player on the roster apart from Hayward and Terry (who improved ever so slightly) had their defensive rating slip from last year to this - a stat that's supposedly not influenced by the play of teammates, and an obvious regression for the team. Make of it what you will - advanced stats are what they are and can-of-wormish - but when the entire roster seems disinterested in playing defense and performing worse from year to year, it most likely ain't (entirely) the roster's fault. Defense should be a non-negotiable with the coaching staff. As Bobby Marks said any evaluation of the Hornets in the offseason should start with our head coach.
And, yes, we need a center.
Did I read or hear somewhere that we were a top 5 or 6 defensive team since the ASB?
Or is that poppycock?
Who knows, but if you look at month-over-month team defensive rating since November, we had a middling couple of months in Jan/Feb sandwiched by shite months. For reference, ASG was late Feb. I swear though - numbers aside - I find it hard to believe any team could be as bad on defense as we were last night. That was eye-test awful.
Month, (league rank), defensive rating;
November (24th) 111.5
December (28th) 117.1
January (13th) 110.1
February (10th) 110.3
March (19th) 115.4
April (25th) 120.9
