40% is 40%. Results in the same number of points and hence wins. For every game we lost because Ryno sucked at home, there is a game we won because Ryno is a monster on the road. I don't know why there's so much OCD about this thing. It is ridiculous to be mad about this. He's not a great starter, and that's fine with me. Morey knew it, I knew it and you knew it before we signed him. Maybe you let kind words at a press conference fool you, and that's on you. There's no disappointment here. He's done what we agreed to pay him for. If he does the same again, I'll be happy. If anything, I wish he shot more last season.
Of course that's what heypartner is doing in this thread. Why do people try to argue something else about Ryan Anderson? The point is, Ryno as a 3pt specialist does his job well. Nobody is expecting him to be Ray Allen or Steph Curry or even Kevin Love. The only thing wrong about him is his being overpaid. And that's not his fault.
We should stop measuring Ryno by his 3-point percentage, and start measuring him by how far out he draws his defender. As some of you have noted, that determines his dynamic value to the team. If defenders are losing their fear of his shot and backing off to help cover Harden et al, that's the metric we should be watching, in terms of benching and/or unloading him. Hey, you, pointy heads who work for Daryl Morey: Are you monitoring this? Have you developed a way to track it? If not, get on the stick.
Yeah, a Gravity Metric would be an awesome addition to stats. Since he also runs PnR (41 High) with Harden, another would be how often Gravity causes a defense to stick to Ryno with a switching defense, which leads to Harden eating up the PF, like he did to Kanter ("Can't play Kanter" ... lulz), and to LAC (Griffin) and many others. Or measuring lack of Gravity, how many times do they trap or ICE Harden in PnR and leave the picker, would be a sign that you have little Gravity. Well, I guess trapping someone like Beverley who can't really attack would show the lowest gravity for the picker.
Ryno's OnCourt is a quite nice +9.1, ironic as Carmelo's OnCourt is minus -4.7. This could be considered a derivative of gravity since most of what Ryno does is prevent closely layered defenses. To see the Play-by-Play scroll down to the bottom: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/anderry01.html Ryno's VORP is .6 versus Anthony at .8 - Anthony brings all sorts of intangibles but I don't think he'll increase our offensive prowess any. IMHO what Anthony does is offer an offense when Harden or CP are off the court. Not sure an addition of Anthony would really be the massive improvement over Ryno that people are expecting. Maybe more of the psychological benefit of a "big 3" as opposed to a technical benefit.
Ryno is a good player but no he doesn't nor will ever deserve a 20M/y contract. No statistics you may find will ever change this. HOWEVER, A little bit early for you to start tagging him as a choker who will always be useless in playoffs. Fun fact: he shot his best at ~.400 vs the Warriors the playoffs two seasons ago. I'll take it for next series against them. He went ice cold against OKC and then had to rebound back against the best defensive team in Pop's Spurs. Not that easy if you are not a NBA superstar. Let him have another shot, and only then I might join you on the hate bandwagon. For now, as the "MELO TRADE" is not as imminent as potato head claimed to be, instead of hating, you could support him in the arena. /thread
That's how he hit those massive shots at the end of regulation and made that pump fake layup vs KD and Green when we beat the warriors right?
he was one of the reasons. zero points in game 6 certainly didn't help. but anyways, Zboy had posted about ryno's playoff performance and then Lawlruschang replies about a game early in the season -- this was my only point
lolwut? First of all, the NTC is a situation that Melo can control and since he enjoys LIVING in NYK. He loves the city, his kid is there, and he's trying to get back with the woman who refuses to leave there. The longer NYK waits on Melo, the less valuable he ends up. Secondly, even if Ryno gets hurt, his contract still becomes more valuable as it's a big chunk they can eventually trade as an expiring regardless of what Ryno feels or wants.
if melo is still stuck there a year from now it's more than reasonable to assume he will open up his NTC to other teams. and if ryno goes down (like he has 7 out of 9 seasons), nobody is trading for the joakimesque contract.
