Not by a wide margin, people forgot his streaky outings last year or a year before. He also does not play more than 30-32 minutes most nights, I do not think a potential franchise player would play that kind of minutes. People think volume scorer or good shooter equals best talent on a team. Gordon is a player that has virtually no flaws at his position, but he has not been able to carry a team other than the earlier Clippers for basically an entire season when he was young. I have grown to appreciate his game.
He is not our best player, he is probably our smartest player, but he has a long way to go to be the best. Great start though. DD
Fixed it for you. Smartest players aren't minus 23 in 24 minutes while committing as many turnovers as assists. He has potential and has a good feel, but he's definitely doesn't play smart.
Oh no! The 5th youngest player in the NBA is having bad games! Needs to hit the treadmill as hard as Green needs to hit the weights, both will benefit wonders from NBA-level training.
One game? I think Sengun is going to be a very good player, but my comment was directed at DD's comment about being the smartest player on the team. The kid has crazy talent and has good feel but what is holding him back is that he makes stupid plays which lead to stupid fouls and turnovers. Some players figure it out and some do not. We will see.
Please, get out of that “Hey, let’s trade up for Sengun!” thread. They traded up. He’s here. It’s done. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te...of-Stephen-Silas-as-Rockets-head-16727766.php He was unaware of the accompanying fan criticism of the starting lineup, and particularly of fervent calls for rookie Alperen Sengun to start or at least receive much more playing time than the 18.8 minutes per game he averages, the source of the harshest criticism of Silas. “I totally get it, but I didn’t know that that’s a big deal at all,” Silas said. “I mean, I’m trying to try to help him. Throwing him out there for 30-something minutes every night, it’s really hard. So, there are nights where he’ll stay on the floor longer. There are nights where the matchup or his foul trouble or whatever will dictate the minutes that he gets. But it has nothing to do with how I feel about him because I love him. “I love when he’s on the floor. And he’s going to be really good. And he has earned more and more touches and activity when he’s on the floor. I mean, he basically touches it 70 percent of the time when he’s on the floor.” Silas has even rewritten much of the Rockets’ offense to feature Sengun in post-ups, rather than to exclusively play the five-out style he favored last season and coming into this season.
On/off and +/- stats are team based stats, depends on who you are on the floor with, depends on which 5's you are used against and so on. You are not looking at actual production of Sengun (which is very good) but rather try to find a stat that does not favor him (which are team stats) and not surprisingly this is one of the two stats above. If you are looking at the ranking of this stat, and see that Sengun and Augustine are at the bottom of the list, the only logical conclusion you should draw is that the stat does not measure their contribution. Just to make it a little bit more clearer, for example if you play in a unit with KD in Brooklyn or Jokic in Denver, your +/- and on/off stats will look a lot better compared to playing in a unit without KD, even if you give exactly the same production.
lol plus minus is a horrible stat... and plus its almost never used sensibly even tho dumbalytics expert think they are aware its faulty....lololol
