Especially with the VOLUME he shoots. People keep forgetting about volume, its huge. 37% on 180 threes is great.
There has to be a trade coming our way.. Too many players and too much re tooling Be ready for a harden trade 2.0 Well more like 1.5
37% on 500 attempts is pretty damn good. The fact that brewer took 200 three point attempts for this team was brutal.
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Kind of, sort of. I guess it depends what you're looking for. Ariza is a proven 3&D guy while the Bulls were something like 9 PPG worse defensively with Dunlady on the floor last year.
Way to choose a small sample size, playoffs was just 5 games against the best team in the entire conference. Which is the better indicator of your ability, 5 games being guarded by Iggy, or 82 games against the entire league? Ariza's season average: DRPM 0.3, 37.8 3P%, 55 TS% If you're gonna use stats to bolster your argument, make sure you know what you're looking at first.
His defense is vastly overrated and he super streaky. You just can't count on him hitting 3s. He might have a hot streak or a cold streak.
He has a career % of 35% so even with his hot/cold streakiness Ariza has maintained a solid % for his career. Every shooter has hot and cold streaks, the difference is Ariza is still effective even when he's a brick bro because he can defend the other team's best player, whereas other shooters like Kyle Korver are just useless when he's not shooting straight. Also, last year Ariza played too many minutes, if you noticed in the beginning of the season and right after the break that's when he played his best, that's because he was still fresh then, dude was getting up to 40 mins a night while defending the other team's best player, he basically got too worn out. If he doesn't have to play too many minutes then his offensive game wouldn't be so bad.
Dude shot 37% from 3 last year. Yes he will have cold steaks because he is not a pure shooter, but 37% from 3 on 500 attempts is a pretty huge freaking sample size to say he shot the 3 well last year.
This is a pretty stupid way to look at the salary cap DD. Les Alexander has paid relatively the same amount every year because we never exceed the salary cap, especially now with the new rules in place no team is planning to pay the luxury tax. People are concerned about salaries not because they want Alexander to save money, but because the lower the salary you're paying the more you have to allot to other players. In the case of Parsons/Ariza, considering we got slightly worse but saved half his salary that amount allowed you to pay both Brewer and Beverly instead of watching one of them walk away. Of course you can definitely argue that Brewer signing didn't work out, but regardless we can only do that because of the Ariza signing cost half of Parsons. Obviously everybody wants to get the best player, but unless you take salaries into account you don't really know if you are maximizing the talent for your team. For example you can say oh give me Conley instead of Bev any day every day he's the best player, but if Conley is making 30M or 5 times what Bev is making then maybe your team is just Harden, Conley and scrubs. On the other hand, since Bev is so cheap you can pay Ben Gordon and Ryan Anderson which overall upgrades the team more than just conley by himself. This is not rocket science, every player should be evaluated by how much he makes, just like how every employee is judged by his salary in the office.
