Yesterday afternoon looking for some guards that play defense, I stumbled on this.

-Ricky Rubio has been around the top in Defensive RPM consistently. Add in his elite playmaking and he would fill in 2 huge needs for us. Question is are Wolves willing to part with him and what would be the price

-Victor Oladipo a lot of 2 way potential, offensive production, playmaking abililty. Top 10 in Defensive RPM and top 15 in Offensive RPMs. They have a crowded back court he may be available before they have to pay . Would have to give up 2018 draft pick if not more though.

-Jared Dudley 30 yrs old, but would be an upgrade over D.Williams given his defense, and shooting. He will probably want to play for a contender though
-Omri Casspi looks to be trending upward and would also be an upgrade over D.Williams.

-Amare, Frye, Lee all have real good Defensive RPMs. But they all get limited mins so that might be the glitch.

-Kyle Korver and Mike Dunleavy held pretty damn good Offensive and Defensive RPMs last season.

-Spurs with Ginobli, Green, Leonard, West, Aldridge, Duncan: Have a lot of players with high positive DRPMs.
-As do Golden State with Bogut, Green, Iggy, Curry, Ezeli
-Nikola Jokic has the 3rd highest RPMS amoung centers as a rookie.

-Amoung the Knicks main rotational players. Only Melo, KP, Lopez have a positive Defensive RPM.
-Tony Wroten's Defensive RPMs last yr when he put up 16-5-5 was one of the worst ratings in the league for Guards unfortunately(Worse then Hardaway jr).
-Lopez DRPM are lower then I thought they would be

dk7th wrote:

mreinman wrote:so amre has a good defensive RPM? What does that tell you?

you have to factor in minutes played, which the poster did. amare is playing less than 15 minutes a game.

Yea its pretty easy to see through that since he has only played 39 games at 15mins. Which is probably junk mins vs other non impact players. The players who get good mins consistently hold more weight.

Most of the players who are known for good defense have positive DRPMs while players who aren't have negative DRPMs. Its not out of the question that given Amare's limited action he was able to have a positive impact on defense. His DRPMs were negative the previous 2 yrs. But there is enough matches throughout for it to be scoffed at due to an aberration.

Bonn1997 wrote:This stat is often considered worse than PER. If it has any value, you likely have to look at several seasons of data rather than one season for each player (and certainly not a tiny amount of minutes in one season in Amare's case).

which statistics do you look at?

i like rpm, usage vis a vis assist rate and the resulting ratio, TS%