Know what I'm not skeptical about?
My team beating yours.
Lowry
Brandon Rush
Tay Prince
Paul Millsap
Dwight Howard
Yup.
It's hard to fault the front court.
The wings are a bit more questionable. Brandon Rush's defense has been downright poor this year; he ranks 313th in points allowed per possession. As for Prince, his defense has fallen to the mediocre range (168th in points allowed per possession), so his offensive deficiencies stand out even more.
Lastly, after a hot start, Lowry hasn't looked so great. He's ranked 182nd in points allowed per possession, which is pretty poor (although he is defending isolation plays well). In terms of offense, he's been putting up around 15/7 on around 42% shooting over the last two months, which is decent but not great.
You have a good team, but it's flawed. I think you're going to have some trouble with teams that have multiple good wings and guards.
I think the points allowed per possession stat for point guards is a plain joke. Who are the top 10?
Brandon Rush's defense on a team where nobody plays defense doesn't concern me. His defense on teams that ask him to play defense is better.
Prince's defense I'm just plain not worried about.
Honestly I see perimeter defense as a strength here, not a weakness, and I'd stack my perimeter defenders as a unit against anyone else's. Couple that with Howard's backstop help defense and I think its the strongest defensive unit in the league.
Yeah, synergy sports is known for being a joke. It's not like they spend their days meticulously looking at individual plays and making assessments from there. It's not like they craft their system to look at individual defense, rather than team defense.
Oh, wait, that's exactly what they do.
How we select the player - Synergy tracks the initial on ball defender for many playtypes. For example, an offensive player is in Isolation and blows by his defender (player A) and gets to the rim. A help defender (player B) rotates over to try and contest the shot. We attribute the defensive play to Player A, as he was the person was initially beaten on the play.
What happened to the other play types? - We do not attach an individual defender on offensive rebounds, cuts or transition plays as these are team defense concepts and fault/credit usually cannot be attributed to one person.
Lowry, Prince, and especially Rush have all been pretty mediocre to poor on defense this year. If you've got a problem with that, take it up with Synergy, i.e., the best in the business.
If you don't buy Synergy, though, go over to 82games.com. Rush and Prince getting outproduced by opposing players, and Lowry is playing them about evenly. Those aren't huge strengths for your team, unfortunately.
Topic: 2012 'Pick Two' Draft Board (Read 594225 times)