@DanR It's the questions about opportunity cost. Believe me, I'm not making a statement here, I'm asking a question. Why does are OVERALL offensive officiency seem to lag when our lower ceiling players are in?
I may be wrong that it does, but the games where we've relied heavily on them have been less efficient offensive outputs from my untrained eye and I"m not an advanced stats guy either but enjoy the perspective that they bring. (JN quoted the 1.02 PPP as our worst performance in the last 7 games despite our 109 points and I realize weariness plays a role in that as game dragged on).
So it's a question! Do others underperform for reasons less obvious even when the inidividual performance is great of one of these players that generate so much fire and brimstone back and forth amongst us?
I would argue that in this game, JT's outstanding personal play was critical. And especially his defense.
However, if as was discussed on a thread about players "gravity" having a negative impact on overall flow of offense, in effect de-leveraging the offensive output of the more productive offensive players, that is not as easy to see and measure as the positive output of the single player.
Coach Self has in years past and maybe even this year, commented about the "ball moves better" or the offense flows better when such and such a player is in the game. I think back to the Brady Morningstar discussions on the site several years back. Playing the lower ceiling player in this instance from an individual performance perspective due to less tangible but positive effect on the whole.
Someday maybe I'll figure out where all the advanced stats are at and learn how to decipher them myself. I think the NBA has some of these that show overall impact of individual players on the whole when they are on the floor. Would love to understand that better. Instead, I ramble working from a shallow, shadow knowledge of these matters.
Meanwhile, who do we play Saturday and what will the strategy be? Rock Chalk!
