01-21-2020, 09:00 AM
(01-21-2020, 07:07 AM)DanSchwartzman Wrote: These numbers aren't achieved in a vacuum. The teammates that surround you matter.
I can't get away from this when looking at O and D ratings. They are lineup stats, literally a measure of how lineups have performed when a player is on the floor. My opinion is that it would take a decent amount of research and a good sized basketball brain to extract what pure lineup stats mean for an individual. I'm not saying that they mean nothing for the individual, but I have a lot of trouble taking them to mean what we assume simple numbers mean.
Where I do think lineup stats could be useful for folks like us that like to talk basketball: It can be a conversation starter to generate some theories about what's going on with lineups that include KP.