Harden has a better defensive RPM than Kawhi this year

tinman · Jan 3, 2019

durvasa said: ↑

That’s interesting, but DRPM is less reliable as a defensive indicator compared to ORPM as an offensive indicator — despite being better than a lot of other defensive stats out there — so one can’t draw firm conclusions from something like this. Plus/minus is also notoriously noisy in the first few months of a season, even this variant which tries to stabilize it somewhat by incorporating past data and box score statistics.

I suspect that Kawhi is actually much, much better than a net negative on defense. Like you said, DRPM is typically pretty good (so it’s useful to look at), but it doesn’t always get it right.
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Kawhi is a better defensive player than Harden, every ROCKETS FAN knows that

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