(08-07-2021, 01:09 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: I really don´t get where you all find these numbers. I´ll never make numbers the be all and end all of everything, but I seriously don´t understand where you get all these numbers.
His career ON/OFF OPP ORTG is virtually zero, so not negative or positive, certainly not worst in the league.
Career rebounding average per 36 minutes.
WCS 9.6
Kristaps Porzingis 9.0
Dwight Powell is 8.8
Lauri Markkanen 8.6
Maxi Kleber 7.3
DWS career average
Porzingis 2.2
Markkanen 1.5
Kleber 1.5
WCS 1.4
Powell 1.0
DBPM
Powell 1.0
WCS 0.6
Kleber 0.4
Porzingis -0.1
Markkanen -1.2
VORP
Porzingis 1.5
Markkanen 0.7
Powell 0.7
Kleber 0.7
WCS 0.5
All from basketball reference.
I´m not arguing what level of defender Markkanen truly is, but his raw numbers are pretty close to Powell/Kleber, certainly so much that the age difference and potential to peak as a 20 PPG, 50/40/90 shooter, make this a really easy decision. He´s certainly nowhere near the worst defender in the league and Maxi and especially Powell are not f****** Ben Wallace on defense.
Sorry I didn't agree with you hard enough and hurt your feelings, (and I did say I agree with you) but there's no need to start whining with the overdramatic "I don´t get where you all find these numbers" stuff.
It's pretty simple and anyone who actually wondered where the numbers came from, instead of pretending that they are so hard to find and so obscure in an attempt to discredit the opinion of the person talking about them, because you don't like the conclusion they draw, could easily find them.
But I'll take you at your word that it's so hard. Glad to help.
Here you go
- Go to Google.com
- search "Lauri Markkenan stats"
- in the top three to 5 results (probably top 1) from basketballreference.com
- then scroll down until you see the states I mentioned.
Repeat the same process, except search "Kristapps Porzingis stats"
I seriously don't understand the snark when then numbers are clearly there, but if you are going to start out acting all overdramatic (unless you are just trying to troll for fun, which I get, if things are slow), then I'm kind of stopping there and letting you go find a silo where people only agree with you.
Maybe Lauri is your hero and it really offended you that I didn't just automatically say he's Basketball Jesus or something, but I'm moving on.
Maybe I misread the numbers and if so please forgive me, but I don't think I did.
Carry on.
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