Defensive Player of the Year (AA) by Mplax
A nice FanPost on Canis Hoopus (T-Wolves) on Afflalo.
6 months ago
Nate Timmons
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Wow
thanks for the repost. Deeply honored!
I can only hope that Arron Afflalo meets Kobe in the playoffs and sends him packing. He’s been one of my favorite (Non-Wolves) players to follow since I saw the Denver/Lakers game on ESPN back in November. He has also made me really want fellow UCLA-er Malcolm Lee if he decides to commit to the draft. Mid second round picks don’t usually net guys with an already polished defensive game and truck-loads of potential everywhere else.
Thanks again!
Thanks!
I had to rec this.
What are his stats against other superstars?
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I was about to look
but scrolling through Denver’s matchups on NBA.com, it showed a lot of the opposing SGs leading the other team in scoring. They were guys you would expect (Wade, Ellis, Crawford come to mind), but still it’s tough to say he has the same performance against everyone. Though more research might prove otherwise.
Also, I checked his stats on 82games for defense and his winshares (not a great stat… but still) on basketball-reference and he really didn’t stand out. Defensive metrics are a load of crap anyways. I hate opponent PER and refuse to reference it ever because of how bad it is. Not sure how dmult is calculated, but I’m guessing it has a lot of the same issues as opponent PER (playing SG, but defending SF. Your team doesn’t rotate to your guy even though you cover their guys, etc etc). That said, I don’t care how average of a defender he is as long as he make Kobe look like a goon.
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