Here is team stats for 9 rotational players per 36. <PRE> Rk Player GS MP FG% TRB AST STL TOV PTS 1 James Harden 48 1838 .440 4.3 5.2 1.7 3.6 24.2 2 Patrick Patterson 32 1043 .512 6.5 1.5 0.6 1.3 15.8 3 Toney Douglas 0 880 .392 3.5 3.6 1.6 2.2 15.5 4 Carlos Delfino 1 1004 .420 4.6 3.1 1.4 1.8 15.1 5 Chandler Parsons 48 1737 .470 5.8 3.5 1.1 1.9 14.3 6 Marcus Morris 17 1044 .429 6.8 1.6 0.8 1.6 14.3 7 Greg Smith 0 594 .624 10.5 0.9 0.6 1.0 14.1 8 Jeremy Lin 49 1615 .431 4.0 6.7 2.2 3.3 13.3 9 Omer Asik 49 1460 .536 13.8 1.2 0.7 2.9 12.4 </PRE> Team ranking for Parsons. PTS/36 - 5th TRB/36 - 5th AST/36 - 4th STL/36 - 5th http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2013.html#per_minute::none xRAPM <PRE>Name MP Offense Defense Off+Def James Harden 1425.25 5.16 -0.64 +4.52 Chandler Parsons 1343.98 -1.86 -0.41 -2.27 Jeremy Lin 1273.10 1.33 0.68 +2.01 Omer Asik 1133.57 -1.34 4.87 +3.53 Marcus Morris 838.77 -0.36 -1.53 -1.89 Patrick Patterson 797.82 -1.93 -1.33 -3.26 Toney Douglas 745.02 0.01 -2.26 -2.25 Carlos Delfino 729.67 2.04 0.57 +2.61 Greg Smith 456.38 -0.02 -1.07 -1.09 </PRE> http://stats-for-the-nba.appspot.com/teams/HOU.html Offensive xRAPM - 8th Defensive xRAPM - 4th Offense+Defense - 8th Those numbers speak for themselves. For the second most minutes played by a Rocket, great bang for the buck but everything else is terribly overrated here.
I must say that those are interesting stats. But, I don't know how you can go wrong with a SF who shoots 47% and 37% (3-pt), get you 14 points, 6 rebounds, and almost 3.5 assists per game. I'd rather have the points from Parson who shoots 47% than Toney Duglas who shoots 39% from the field. Parson's defense was good last year, he just needs to get used to the increased playing time. He can be an above average defender consistently. Plus he's got a good baseketball IQ.
Yeah the poster who compared him to Scottie Pippen was onto something. You would think that his ceiling would be lower than Pippen's but really at this point it seems like the main reason we don't believe it could be possible is b/c he was a 2nd rounder. At some point we have to get over that and realize that the guy can play, and that we should set our expectations of him based on what we see him doing right now on the court.
Scottie Pippen was an elite defender. If Parsons can get to his level in defense, that would make him an all-star. He'd be like our Paul George.
