Perhaps not unsurprisingly, Dwight has a negative offense rating, given how we have to contort our offense to feed him in the post and given how much we turn it over on bad post entry passes. While the latter (turn overs) is not his fault, they come as a resut of how we try to get him the ball, so it is fair that it shows in his stats. To put in perspective how bad Harden is on defense, by this DRPM metric, he is 390th out of 435 players. Counter-intuitively, Beverley has a better offensive game than defense.
Harden 5th overall ORPM (offense only) is excepted, but Stephen Curry (3th) ahead of Chris Paul (4th), and James (1st) ahead of Durant (2nd) is a bit surprising to me.
Beverley is #14, ahead of Dwight #21 and Harden #33. Does this even matter? You have Iggy at #3, Nick Collison at #6, and Amir Johnson at #12.
It's cool to see Nick Collison and Chris Anderson in the top 20; two guys who quietly have huge impact. SGs are underrepresented and incredibly ineffectual in today's NBA. Also you missed one basketballhollic, Goran Dragic > Harden
Deandre Jordan is the top center in this real plus minus. I mean, center is becoming an irrelevant position in the NBA, but Deandre is seriously the most underrated player in the league. Gonna lead the league in boards, lead the league in FG%, and 3rd in blocks...yet nobody gives him any respect.
Thread bump. I noticed today they finally had enough games to put out these stats for this season. http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM Harden comes in at 6th overall in RPM. 5th overall on offense and 36th overall on defense. According to these numbers he is 2nd in the league in WAR behind Curry. Rockets overall ranks Player - RPM/ORPM/DRPM Harden - 6/5/36 Bev - 51/67/112 Jones - 75/138/61 Ariza - 79/246/30 DMo - 81/212/37 Howard - 100/171/78 Canaan - 148/116/189 Terry - 163/134/191 Black - 171/243/123 Capela - 235/354/116 Dorsey - 266/379/107 Johnson - 327/262/304 Papa - 331/376/165 Garcia - 353/381/182 Daniels - 413/356/404 Still pretty early and some of these guys have really small sample sizes, but it's interesting to see how these stats rank our players. Definelty some surprises that don't exactly match how I would rank our players against each other on offense. Defensively it seems more in line with how I'm seeing things.
DMo's defence really good, he's 11th against PF's, unfortunatelly for Dwigth and Jones too small samle size
