2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[SleepingHero]

 On offense you go  into 5% of conversion rate on 3 point attempts as though it's some massive gulf between players, meanwhile you just wave away marginal differences on defense as they're all pretty much the same.

Buddy made nearly 67 more threes than THJ last season. That's 201 more points and nearly an extra 3 a game, and that's with THJ having a career year and Buddy having a down year in terms of efficiency under Walton. 

THJ isn't strong on defense.  Buddy is a laughing stock. 

I mean Buddy and THJ have the same career defensive DBPM (-1.4) . They have the exact same career DRTG (113). Their defensive win shares are within 0.5 points of each other (6.4 for THJ, 5.9 for Buddy). The ONLY defensive stat that paints Buddy as a laughing stock and THJ as above average is DRPM. Which again is an estimation of a players impact on defense based on how many points the team allows on defense PER 100 possessions. 

This is the same stat that puts De'Aaron Fox as the  12th worst defensive point guard in the league, which I don't believe is the case when you look at the entire picture. Perhaps the Kings team as a whole was just bad on defense due to horrific coaching. This is almost further reinforced when we take a look at last season with THJ on the Knicks and Buddy playing under Joerger, their DRPM are almost exactly the same (THJ -1.28, Buddy -1.38)

There are more stats that paint THJ and Buddy as almost equal on the defensive end than there are those that say Buddy is a laughing stock.