He was also very high in some of those categories last year as well, yet he was a very mediocre defender. Not really sure how he was, those advanced metrics confuse me . But he has definitely been a better defender at this point in the season compared to years past.
Those stats (which are generally very good, but not perfect) over-value defensive rebounding, which is why Andre rated so well last year despite being – as you correctly put it – a lazy & mediocre defender.
Did you see KD put him on skates last night? hahaha. Glad he didn't fall though, but looked dangerously close to doing so
Let's take care of that right now:
Without Kemba, Charlotte wouldn't win more than 20 games. With him, they're a 40-45 win team. Other than LeBron, he may be the most important player to their team in the league.
Jaylen Brown's much improved as well.
No you are not. And the fact that you think you are is scary.
I do, but you think you are Chad Ford and that Tatum is not good and should have been included over the Nets pick. Wrong. The nets pick will fall outside the top 5 probably, so please tell me more Knox or Walker or Sexton being better than Kyrie and Tatum.
I think Bledsoe is a very good player, but I'm picking Kyrie every time. And it wouldn't be close for me. But you're picking one stat here, and we all know advanced basketball stats aren't as strong as baseball ones. We need a wider picture.
He does but I think he would be fine off the bench as well as long as Clifford doesn't get wacky with his minutes. No reason why Lamb can't continue to get 25 minutes at the minimum off the bench backing up Batum/MKG, or playing alongside either of them if they slide up a position. He would be the featured scorer and secondary(and at times primary ballhandler, Clifford has been raving about his playmaking abilities) with the bench unit, plenty of opportunity to score in bunches.
