![]() If you want to bounce right now and not read the rest of this article, I totally get it. It’s easy to be disappointed, annoyed, angered, or any negative emotion by this revelation. Let's compare some of their per 100 possessions stats. There are only two other players in NBA history at -2 or worse while putting up high-volume shot attempts: Andrew Wiggins (-2.0) and DeMar DeRozan (-2.2). Over the first four years of his career, Barrett has a -2.4 BPM. Want to guess where Barrett ranks? Sixtieth. These are effectively high-usage, high-minutes offensive players where 70% of the list has a positive BPM. 2.0 is a bench player (this is also defined as "replacement-level") +8.0 is an MVP season (Peak Dirk or peak Shaq) ![]() +10.0 is an all-time season (Peak Jordan or LeBron) A value of +5.0 means the team is five points per 100 possessions better with the player on the floor than with average production from another player. League average is defined as 0.0, meaning zero points above or below average. Here’s some context about the values of this stat directly from Basketball Reference: There is also a box plus-minus (BPM) column to have some sense of what their on-court impact is. There are randos like these guys named Jay Vincent and Todd Day, but most of the players on this list are at worst multiple-time All Stars, and Rudy Gay. These are effectively above-average to high-usage offensive players the average usage rate of that 60-player sample is 24.67%. ![]() Since the 1979–80 season, a total of 60 “wing players” fit this criteria, a who’s who of the NBA: Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Luka Dončić, Brandon Roy, Clyde Drexler, Carmelo Anthony, Devin Booker, Paul George and Latrell Sprewell, to name a few. Here is the link to the query if you have access to Stathead and want to view all the numbers yourself. I decided to create a bit of a range with “rounded” numbers, so the query I put into Stathead was players in the 3-point era who are between 6-foot-5 and 6-foot-8 (Barrett is listed at 6-foot-6 and was previously listed at 6-foot-8), played at least 250 games their first four years, took at least 1,000 free throw attempts and shot at least 3,500 field goals. In his four-year career, Barrett has played in 270 regular-season games, taking 1,328 free throws and 4,157 field goals. The goal is to find players with similar roles and physical profiles to Barrett, i.e. Have there been players like this in NBA history? If so, how and why? If not, is there anything we can learn? To Stathead I go. See, the situation at hand is that the Knicks have a 23-year-old wing who puts up inefficient counting stats on high volume, but has pretty poor adjusted plus-minus and other impact statistics. As I try to wrangle my thoughts on a young player who has this lightning rod-esque quality amongst Knicks fans, I keep coming back to one question: Has anything similar happened before? Since I have nothing else better to do during this bizarre NBA offseason, I’ve been thinking about RJ Barrett, teetering between meditation and madness.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |