His offense is worse than you think.
Maybe it evens out.
Give me one stat other than "five foot nine" that says he is not an Allstar.
He is averaging 21 and 6, one of only six players to do that this year.
On respectable 42%, 34%, and 86%. Numbers that could improve as the season goes (he has had a lot of missed open threes).
He is sixth among pgs in PER.
He is 23rd among pgs in TS%, but he was sixth and ninth the last two years, meaning that he should improve as the season goes. He is also still ahead of Conley, Teague, Holliday, Jackson, Jack, Wall, and Dragic in that area. There are only two players ahead of him in TS% that have a higher usage rate, meaning he is doing a respectable job with this TS% considering his usage rate. As the season goes, other guys get more comfortable and we make a move for another scorer, I expect his efficiency to rise.
He is 7th among point guards in estimate wins added among point guards.
He has the stats. He has the winning team. But he doesn't have the fan base support, and for that reason, he probably won't be an All-star.
His usage is pretty high. He's a borderline top 50 player right now. 42%/34% isn't anything to celebrate.
He just brought up Thomas's TS%, which is a better indicator of efficiency than raw field goal percentages.
People LOVE bringing up that stat out of context. He's 97th in the league in TS%.
Don't take me out of context. I brought it up to say two things: 1) It is significantly lower than it has been the last two years, but it is still a respectable percentage considering his usage rate, and 2) To prove that many of the guys people would take over him have a worse true shooting percentage.
Lillard is much worse of a defender by every metric, and less efficient of a scorer by TS%, but most fans would rather have Lillard and think he is an All-star. Conley, Clarkson, Jackson, Teague, Wall, Holliday, Dragic, Rondo, Schroder, Rubio, Rose, Payton, Lawson are all other examples of players with worst TS%.
Take all the metrics together, and it is obvious that he is a top 10 PG in the league right now, not a sixth man. And he deserves to be an All-star if we win at least 40.
Oh, and he deserves to be an All-star if he keeps outplaying Wall, Teague, Lowry, Hill, Ellis, Parker, Jack, and anyone else he plays against.