11-14-2023, 09:22 AM
(11-14-2023, 08:33 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Hilarious. You do see the irony of calling out 'advanced stats' and then using them to try to prove a point. It is fantastic that Lively is playing well with the stars (or if you hate advanced stats, you might instead say the five man lineups that include those three have played well). But, if you don't mind, I'd like to check the stats that back up the obvious conclusion that Powell sucks and contributes to this 30th ranked D when Lively isn't playing with Kyrie and Luka.
Luka and Kyrie have only played 175 minutes together and Lively has played 148 or those. That leaves 27 minutes of possible "empty stats" for Powell. Except that Maxi played 18 of those minutes with Luka and Kyrie (-24 with a D-Rating of 131.7) representing 5% of total minutes played this season. Now we are down to 9 possible minutes where Powell could be at fault in your obvious eye test. Except, he hasn't played a single minute with Kyrie and Luka this season.
Amazing accomplishment considering that he started the Toronto game with Luka and Kyrie.
Here is the eye test for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5mj0B6p2sc
And here is the basic stat for you.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584796
The loss with the -10 in 24 minutes as a starter.
Against the Pelicans Ingram shot 1-4 against Lively in the 1st half. Against Powell he immediately went into attack mode and put himself into scoring position on ALL six shot attempts, four makes and two trips to the free throw line. It´s so blatantly obvious that opposing players have no respect for the Mavs interior defense with Powell on the floor.