we have a rim protector now, Amir Johnson
Our rim protector is on the floor 23 minutes a night, and blocks a shot per game. Not exactly earth-shattering contribution.
A lot of the defensive success was from playing a tough, active zone, hiding our vertically challenged bigs by playing them center field around the FT line. It's been working great, but people will figure it out second half of the season.
There's only one place on god's green earth where Amir Johnson is a Rim Protector (at least of the basketball variety): forums.celticsblog.com
Not the only place - Nylon Calculus rates Olynyk as the 20th best rim protector per-minute in the league, ahead of guys like Draymond Green and Serge Ibaka. Amir rates as #31, ahead of players like DeAndre Jordan, Nerlens Noel, Marc Gasol and Anthony Davis. Heck, David Lee's ahead of Davis so far.
http://nyloncalculus.com/stats/rim-protection/Our defense is really producing some wacky results so far. But if they hold up as the sample size rises, they'll seem a lot less wacky.
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