martin wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:martin wrote:SupremeCommander, clutch stats very different that than what you had suggested previously. I don't doubt that and it seems backed up pretty nicely with stats what we can all read easily.
When you need him to score, he scores. How can this not be considered "automatic"? I stand by my assessment that he's an "automatic scoring option that plays the wing."
That's the thing, he doesn't do it on a more consistent basis than a LOT of other guys in the league across the whole game, just at the very end of a game. You know, perhaps if he hadn't shot the ball so poorly or shot it as well as the other guys, he may not have been in that same position.
That last sentence is obviously a stretch. But if he is "automatic" does that mean all of the other guys ahead of him in TS% (with some guys you obviously drop cause of circumstance), does that really mean they are MORE automatic?
He isn't great three point shooter, w eknow this, and I don't think he'll be asked to do that here. eFG% and TS% will penalize him for that, but the Knicks would have other players shoot that shot. I don't see the need to penalize him for that. Why factor something he won't regularly be asked to do here into the mix?
Shouldn't some qualitative analysis go into the mix here too? I can't think of one player I'd rather have shoot from the elbow than maybe Dirk Nowitzki. At any time of the game.
But back to the original point of Melo not contributing to anything other scoring: he's ranked 59th in the history of the NBA/ABA in PER
http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/per_career.html
Just to keep the discussion on point, this wins produced stat is bogus