THJ apology thread

[Jason Terry]

 

We all know that his contract was bad. Doesn´t matter now because he is an expiring. Not to mention that he had by far the best season of his career last year. Guys that shoot nearly 40% from 3 on high volume do not grow on trees.



In my universe (reality) we don´t have a single boxscore or impact number that has Richardson ahead of THJ.

Boxscore:

THJ 17/4/2 45.2% FG 40.7% from 3 59% TS

Richardson 14/3/2 42.5% FG 32.6% from 3  55.4% TS

Advanced boxscore:

THJ 112 O-Rating / 108 D-Rating, 16.5 PER , +1.8 BPM

Richardson 109 O-Rating / 110 D-Rating, 11.6 PER, -2.8 BPM

+/-:

THJ On/Off -4.1, On court +1.7, Offense/Defense rating -2.3/+1.7

Richardson On/Off -10.3, On court -0.3 Offense/Defense rating -4.3/+5.9

Two-man combination with Doncic:

THJ +9.7

Richardson +2.2



Feel free to search for a single metric that has Richardsons ahead of THJ. Feel free to join me in reality when you aren´t able to find something.

There just isn’t a reliable way to measure defense through stats. Especially for guards. Defensive rating for instance. Last year Marcus Smart and Ben Simmons were all NBA first team defense. Smart finished 86th and Simmons 61st out of all players in defensive rating. Giannis and AD were 3 and 14. Historically the metric has the same flaw. Overall though the advanced metrics are more useful with at least 20 or 30 games into the season. 

I get your point though about Hardaway. He’s a solution not a problem. Both players belong IMO