Right, that's what I'd hope for as well. His defense isn't good, but being forced to guard the perimeter is just ridiculous for him. I know he has been reluctant to be a 4 in the past, but hopefully he's ready to embrace that now if he comes here. He's just not quick enough to play on the perimeter on defense.
Looking at that chart... I had to do a double take seeing that Drexler rated higher than Dream during the 2nd championship...
GSW scored at 9. Houston a 5. Several 4's. In other words, we are 1/3 contenders to PLAY GSW in either a conference finals or championship game (ineligible). Not beat them.
Because it's using BPM, WS and PER which are just box score stats. Not great alone for offense, and terrible for defense. I don't believe they were able to use RPM for years that far back. Drexler over Hakeem is absurd.
What's really embarrassing for the stat chart is Laimbeer being the Alpha for both Detroit titles. Lols. Had I tried to come up with a new stat, I would stop and not write my article when it generated Laimbeer #1 and Isiah, Aguirre and Dumars not even in the Top 3. smdh
I came to the same conclusion in the "close the gap" thread. Warriors are a historic outlier, but the Rockets sit right at the top of the rest of the league now, especially if you rate CP3 with the top 6 as many do (including Morey, probably). I also think Melo has the potential to be a star player again in that Gamma range, and in the Beta range in the playoffs. The pessimism on this forum is hilarious.
I ain't reading all that. But I guess they got to say 3 teams can win the title to make it intersting
Completely subjective to set the cutoff for "Alpha" at 6.0. CP3 conveniently below at 5.9. Also completely speculative to project CP3 to drop to 5.9 next year when historically he has hovered around 8.0 - one of the true consistent alphas in the league, while Harden only last year got to borderline alpha level. IMO it is much likelier for Harden to be the one who has to sacrifice his game, give up possessions, but increase in efficiency. D'antoni created the monster that is Steve Nash. CP3 is taking that same path, except he is coming in as MVP level talent to begin with. Instead of taking a step back like 538 expects, I think CP3 will be the one to take his game to another level because D'antoni's system is catered and built around the point guard and CP3 is the point GOD.
In fairness to Bill, he averaged a monstrous 8.0 ppg during the 1989 championship. Aguirre only averaged a minuscule 7.5 pig.
I really like the article that is provided, but the ranking for Lillard, Wall, and PG I feel are Betas. Wall is in the middle of Alpha-Beta. But that is a great list. KAT and Giannis has a chance to be an Alpha, Wiggins a Gamma, Steven Adams a Gamma(playoff style from 2 years).
But I have a question, I always thought title contenders had a chance to beat anyone in a playoff series, why are we on the list? With Melo, we would be maybe where Cleveland is. Or Capela taking a Gobert or DJ jump.
My favorite responses to statistical modeling articles is "Stats don't show what I think they should show so poo poo on them!"
If that was regular season it made sense. Hakeem was pretty mediocre (by his standard) that year due to injuries and stuff. He turned on a switch in the playoffs but for the season it wouldn't surprise me Drexler was flat out better.
I am not sure what is the reasoning here. Apparently Westbrook and Harden have FG% significantly lower than the rest of the players on that list. They are not same type of players.
