Metrics and Statistics do not tell the whole story at all, at least not the ones most people here use. There are so many things (screens, movement, gravity, etc.) that are not encapsulated in statistics that most people see, and honestly most of it is poorly tracked even in the metrics that are available.
Let's look at that final play. Demary steals it (in the box) but nowhere does it mention Mullins recovering the ball, or helping force the steal by shutting down another passing lane. Mullins doesn't get any credit on that play until his three point shot goes in (in the boxscore, in a way that is quantifiable to him).
Similar to hockey assists in basketball, or a double hockey assist (point being the doubling was caused by one play but the ball swung enough so he does not come close to sniffing anything in the boxscore, or any statistic. Most metrics we get don't cover that. Boozer had at least a handful of those in the game though because he was able to effectively have the defense collapse on him, kick the ball out and have someone swing it to an open man. No metric really captures that it's all due to Boozer having enough gravity to attract two defenders.
Or, to use Boozer again, when he blocks Tarris twice in the post, who gets the credit there defensively on most metrics? Boozer, but who was the defender that was banging in the post and delaying the shot just enough for Boozer to come over from the weak side for the blind block? Most metics aren't giving the initial defender any credit there at all.
Bringing it back to Karaban, do you think you have an accurate measurement for all the pressure he puts on a defense by being a movement shooter and not just a stand still recipient of a swing pass? Is there a metric that gauges all the wear and tear that causes on a defenders legs throughout the game? A player like Boozer shoots 40% from three, but we all know from watching the game that his three point shot is vastly different from Karabans in terms of the gravity and effort a defender has to put into defending it.
