"Could stand to get stonger and more flexible" is an understatement. He's completely inflexible.
Yeah he's tall. We agree. He goes well in a straight line too.
This makes me wonder if Cam Newton was also set back for a while - he was trash for the first month or so post-Covid - but I also don't recall him reporting having any symptoms. But with the way the Pats talk about injuries etc., who knows.
Except Tatum's numbers were quite good pre-CoVid, took a marked dip when he came back, and now have improved as time has passed. And it is known that he had was quite ill and admitted he was having difficulty catching his breath when he first came back. And all of those symptoms are 100% consistent with the longer recovery period seen so often among those that contract the virus.
Maybe a combination too. I’d be hard pressed to dismiss Covid based on the information that has been reported however returning in mid season following a layoff as everyone else is in rhythm is typical as well. Smart is just one example of this. Whatever the reason it’s good to have Great Tatum back.
So when he goes on an inevitable 4-5 game bad streak what will it be? Players go on streaks and there always has to be some underlying reason for when they are playing bad. When they are playing good though, that's just their actual level of ability. It couldn't be that over the course of the season players will have good and bad games and end up right around where they should at the end of the season. That would be too easy.
When you have reasonable causation it’s harder to argue that results occurred purely due to chance.
I don't disagree that a player's performance consists of both good and bad streaks, and that both "count" when evaluating a player. Sometimes, however, there is a cause; David Ortiz had a wrist injury that coincided with an off year.
A little self-aggrandizing on Perk’s part, but I kind of love it. Would love to have been a third-party on that line...
"Inevitable" seems loaded to me. Like its happened before and will happen again. Like Smart will have inevitable bad multi game streaks. Theis will have inevitable bad multi game streaks. Hell TL will have bad multigame streaks moving forward.
It's happens to Jordan. It's happens to Curry. It's happens to Giannis.
I think technique wise he is using his length more to go around guys as opposed to driving into someone's chest and trying to lay it up over them. He used to have a lot of awkward push shots over guys that didn't go well since he isn't a great leaper.
What's interesting is that he's had three straight excellent games in terms of drawing free throws: 16 against Minnesota, eight against Denver, ten against Portland. The last time he had as many as eight was before the All-Star break (ten against Toronto on March 4). I wonder if his different technique is more likely to get calls since he's not initiating the contact but letting the defender try to make a play while he's in position, but small sample size so far, so we'll see going forward.
When he first came into the league I was struck by how he used his length on the drive: someone would cut him off at the rim and seemingly have him blocked and then JT would just lean past him and his ballhand would somehow be three feet behind the defender and laying it in. It was like a magic trick.
I think JB and JT have mostly been fine all year and the real problem was the lack of rotation players. With Fournier and Langford, that changes a bit. Now if a player misses a game or is just having an off game, it doesn't hurt them as much. At the very least, Jaylen and Jayson weren't/aren't the problem.
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That chart is for defensive role helper - he should be defensive role point of attack maybe.
I think he’s around 11-12 right now, assuming everyone is healthy.
Me too. I mean who has time to figure out what everyone in the league looks like?
Some of the heads get cut off too. Doncic is literally on top of some other guy. Guess that hairdo.
I know I post them, but I don’t love the charts lol. I just like bball index, and that they share the formula for their stats. Looking at this is much easier.
Thanks. Interesting. Don't mind me; I'm sure a lot of people find them super interesting.
weird he's not there, he should be where Dame is on offense, but 6 boxes higher on Defense
the headshots chart is tough to decipher
Again, this chart was conditioned on the defensive role 'Helper' so it doesn't include a lot of players. I think Jokic is classified as an "anchor big".
Don't know about the tweeter but the tweet below has a chart of top 30 based on following criteria: "every NBA player w/ 400+ MIN on April 20 by the AVERAGE OF THEIR RANKS in 10 catch-alls (Box +/-, RAPTOR, Estimated +/-, LEBRON and Game Score per 36 minutes, as well as cumulative versions of each)."
