THE GREEN MACHINE: The Subtle Emergence of Josh Green

[mvossman]

Yes to both of the last questions, but...and I say this knowing you follow the team closely, so no disrespect, but I'm telling you, this dude as a rookie was expert level at making a layup 10x more difficult than it needed to be. It's just something we used to observe and discuss on the regular. I have no idea how to reconcile your point about percentages, but I've never been someone to let a stat talk me out of something I feel I learned from watching. I think both ways of learning are valid, but I trust my eyes, personally. 

Anyway, the moral of the story is whatever he has been doing with his practice time is paying off. I'd say his finishing has been GOOD lately, so no sense arguing about the past.

To be clear, this was less about suggesting Green was good at the rim, and more about curiosity around the failure of the stat.  I tend to crosscheck both.  It took years for advanced stats to convince me that Powell actually contributed to on court success when my eye test was telling me he was useless.