Recent content by auror

His locker room intangibles won out.

Pure class.

He has a formula to project next year's 3pt% (career % and attempts, per possession rate, probably ft%) and he took 90th percentile of D1 and above. Didn't include freshman since he can't project them.

Most of these issues are resolved with a larger sample size when these events are likely to even out. The NBA is obviously better than college in this regard. It'll never be perfectly accurate, but things like RAPM tend to look pretty accurate by season's end. RAPM leaderboard last season...

Scorers, especially on ball scorers, can absolutely be redundant. There's only one ball. Scorers aren't doing anything for you if they're not in the current process of scoring. Shooters are beneficial in quantity for spacing, absolutely, that helps the others in your offense. But there are...

I agree with his point guard take if we're talking roster construction optimization. The three PG thing was a real thing in 2024. Andre was a huge creator on the wing. Solo and Braylon are a bit too redundant, unless Braylon can create more for others than he's shown or Solo takes a jump in that...

Two thoughts to consider. The first is that this is a biased selection of games (despite understandable reason to pick these). He got more minutes in these games in part because he was effective and/or his skillset was needed. It's sampling bias. Secondly, you're just underselling some of his...

I want to be clear. I don't think he's a bad defender. Hurley thinks he's a good defender, and he is the person who would know best. Specifically the plus/minus stats say that last year the team was worse defensively with him on the court by a substantial margin (not all defensive stats are...

Yes, better even. The sample size is small enough to mostly ignore the result (on both sides of the ball). 80% at the rim is unsustainable.

Reed did have pretty strong games against them, especially on the offensive glass. One of the few bigs in the league that can punish that.

The bottom is the starters, the top is the starters with Ross in place of McNeeley. Not a huge sample size, but it's similar to the team's overall splits with him ON. Not good. Horrendous even. That rim% and rim FG%, yikes.

Doubtful unfortunately.

The only positive I'll say in the stats is that his best lineup combination was with Karaban+Reed, both of whom are back this year. The downside is that his worst pairing is with Stewart, who he's likely to play more with.