Here is one. Both are active.
These are career stats (not per 36 since the mpg are fairly close)
10.7 p, 6.0 r, 1.1 a, 0.7 s, 0.4 b, 1.0 t, 47.6 2PT, 37.0 3PT, 77.0 FT - 24.1 mpg
8.0 p, 3.4 r, 1.3 a, 1.0 s, 0.3 b, 0.07 t, 51.4 2PT, 32.9 3PT, 77.9 FT - 21.4 mpg
Player B is Jae Crowder
Player A I'm thinking must be a PF? Maybe a SF
Probably a journeyman. Ilyasova? Not the defender Jae is though.
EDIT: Yup. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/i/ilyaser01.html
It is pretty pointless to use Jae's career stats because they include 2 seasons where he hardly played and do not represent the player he is now. Conversely it is dumb to use a player's career stats that peaked years ago and has not been the same player statistically in several years.
This was put in another thread somewhere and for these reasons it is really misleading and bad. I would hope we can put this to bed because it is about as textbook manipulation of stats as you can get.
They both played very similar minutes per game in their career. It isn't a comparison of a guy playing 30 minutes vs. a guy playing 25 minutes. And for the record between the two of them the career low for mpg was in fact 14.7 by Ilyasova in his rookie year.
But since you are crying about it, here are their totals for the year thus far this year.
12.5 p, 6.1 r, 1.5 a, 0.5 s, 0.2 b, 1.2 t, 51.3 2PT, 36.7 3PT, 80.4 FT - 26.1 mpg (Ilyasova)
13.0 p, 4.7 r, 2.5 a, 1.1 s, 0.4 b, 1.2 t, 59.3 2PT, 40.0 3PT, 93.8 FT - 29.6 mpg (Crowder)
Now if we look at Ilyasova just since he has been in Philly (and take out the OKC games) his numbers increase a bit.
13.7 p, 6.2 r, 1.7 a, 0.4 s, 0.2 b, 1.2 t, 50.5 2PT, 38.1 3PT, 80.4 FT - 26.9 mpg
This came up in a prior thread because someone said Saric couldn't earn his minutes when all he had to do was beat out Ilyasova which is different than Brown who had to beat out Crowder. I posted those numbers to indicate there wasn't much difference between Ersan and Jae at least statistically. Now Jae is a better defender, but he isn't All NBA type defender either.
I also think this is relevant because I think it shows that Jae is pretty easily replaceable. He isn't a guy that Boston has to have and he should be among the names being brandied about in trade discussions.
