Since LeBron has came back, Cleveland is playing ridiculous basketball.
LeBron is top 3.
If you wanna use W/L vs Russ, gotta use it vs AD.
Why would anyone use w/l to justify anything?
Since LeBron has came back, Cleveland is playing ridiculous basketball.
LeBron is top 3.
If you wanna use W/L vs Russ, gotta use it vs AD.
Why would anyone use w/l to justify anything?
People use it in other sports, you this dense?
He's never played with anyone as good as Russ, or even Serge.
The best 3 players this year are Curry, AD, and Harden.
Its been 2 games. Remember when waiters had a good game or 2 and you wanted to believe that was the real Waiters?
The best 3 players this year are Curry, AD, and Harden.
NOt on a per game basis. Thats up for debate.
Westbrook is playing at an all time level this year production that you just don't see often.
NOt on a per game basis. Thats up for debate.
Westbrook is playing at an all time level this year production that you just don't see often.
Win shares per 48 and PER; both have the same top 3.
The "all time level" crap gets comical man. I don't know how to tell you to contain yourself. Based on win shares/48, he's havint the 118th best season in just NBA history (and ranked 4th in 2014)
Thats ok. It terms of his raw statistics few hvae done what he has done. You can get into analytics all you want (all of which aren't 100% proven to corrleate to wins as much as some would believe) but in terms of producing on the floor Westbrook is doing it at levels we just haven't seen that often.
He has a much higher PER than Curry/Harden all at a higher usage which makes his PER even better.
The argument that the advanced analytics don't correlate to wins is a really poor argument for using raw statistics.
Wins produced per 48 has the highest R-squared of any model I have seen of statistics (how much of wins is explained by .......)
Russ ranks as #15 this year per that metric.
You don't get extra credit for taking a lot of shots (which PER does reward).
I'm not saying that we can't look at them but to use them as the gospel as so many people are using nowadays is insanity. Raw stats still have a place in conversations.
The analytics movement in basketball is going way too fast if you ask me. When there are only 5 guys on a court and their skills must work together you can't accurately everything or nearly eveyrthing that impacts wins and losses.
And just because its the most accurate model does not make it as accurate as it needs to be before we start using it as the end of all arguments.
Also his PER isn't better because his usage is higher. His PER is higher because his usage is higher.
I agree but it's certainly better than box score stats in all situations.