11-25-2022, 11:11 PM
(11-25-2022, 08:34 PM)Kammrath Wrote: Yes.
He has improved in steals and deflections but those numbers do NOT make a "good defender."
This statement is laughable:
"Doncic in his fifth season quietly has transformed into a well-above-average defensive player."
This is just not remotely true unless you are only including the 30% of the time he plays with full effort.
I guess the metric for defensive win-shares ignores the rest of the game? It MUST only include the 30% of the time he plays with full effort.
They estimate Luka has a defensive win-shares of 1.0 which ties him for fourth-best in the league. So I guess he must play REALLY hard that 30% of the time. Like All World Defender hard.
And the reason that I deleted the comment (within a couple of minutes of posting - great catch LOL) is that I didn't want to contribute to the general negativity of this board. I literally can only read a few threads that aren't destroyed by the negative vibe of this board.