foye's history at PG

[gregbroncs]

Who'd they play with? Their teammates. Who'd they play against? The other team. Who's available? The active roster. You want to know how Tinsley fared in the third quarter while behind against teams who played an 8 man rotation during road games during January on Saturday, THEN you're getting hand picked stats, and not the overall picture.

So +/- is now the overall picture?

You still missed the point. Basketball is a team game and you play against opponents of varying skills. Therefore even you so called overall picture is just another hand picked stat to support your POV.

 

[bordelais7]

Amusing.

If you've actually paid attention, I've been quite the advocate against plus minus. It's a relative stat, and acutely relative at that. The actual number is fairly irrelevant. But used as comparison with few to no variables, as has been happening in this thread, then it's useful.

But keep trustin' that eyeball of yours.

So what you're saying is that the variables involved when Tinsley was playing versus when Watson was playing were somehow negligible, but that a 31 point difference over the course of an entire season is enough to call one guy better than another? I'm not sure which argument is dumber. Statisticians everywhere are cringing.

Otherwise stated, you advocate against plus/minus when comparing players from different teams, but think it's useful so long as you're comparing teammates? Please don't make me dig up the dozens of examples from last season alone that would make that argument look absolutely childish.

Keep trustin' that "brain" of yours.

 

[theNBAnerd]

Are we trying to prove that actual pg skills aren't really that necessary so long as the 'system' is the pg and the most important attribute of the guy manning the 'position' is that he can score? Because my read on Foye is that every effort made at making him a pg resulted in everyone realizing he was a 2 guard. I don't think we're going to magically change that.

thank you!! that's what this thread was intended to say. it was not intended to be an 8-page pissing contest about the benefits and drawbacks of +/-, although i think PG is one position where you can expect a good player to have a positive impact on his team's execution.

and anybody who thinks that our system today is that different from our system under sloan just hasn't paid very close attention or doesn't know their Xs-and-Os. who knows what ty will come back with this fall for his first full training camp as head coach, but so far any adjustments made to the old sloan offense have been subtle little wrinkles. PG is still an incredibly important position in the jazz's sets.

 

[theNBAnerd]

i'm a firm believer in hayward and his all-around skills (including playmaking) and even i think he's miles away from being anything close to a manu-type creator. manu's rookie assist percentage was as good as hayward's 2nd year was, and in every season since, it has been at least 22%. on average, 1 in every 4 of his teammates' buckets while he's on the floor is the product of a ginobili assist. last year it was almost a third of his teammates' buckets that he assisted. that's a ridiculous number, and hayward hasn't even sniffed that level of playmaking ability yet.

i'm hopeful for the kid, but let's not throw unfair and unfavorable comparisons at him and define him as a player that way.

 

[NAOS]

1. While the offense was still Sloan-like, it was more like Sloan101 with massive work stoppages when the ball went to the low left block. I'll guard Sloan's honor and ask you to keep his name out of this.

2. I'm not saying Hayward will ever rise to Manu's level. What I'm SUGGESTING is that we have a lot more to see from him than we have.... since his rookie season saw the explosion of the franchise and his second season was condensed + had no training camp. I'm SUGGESTING that the coaches do a lot more to help him; I hope they tailor the offense to his skills a ****load more than they have, because I've seen flashes of stuff beyond Dunleavy. Give him a goddamn pick. Also, Gordon, you need to develop your finishing skills.

I think Gordon can be a 17/4rebounds/5assist guy on 47%/39%. All the while being a two-way player. Even if he doesn't look like Manu when he does it, I'll take those numbers in whatever form they arrive. But, he needs more help.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

1. While the offense was still Sloan-like, it was more like Sloan101 with massive work stoppages when the ball went to the low left block. I'll guard Sloan's honor and ask you to keep his name out of this.

2. I'm not saying Hayward will ever rise to Manu's level. What I'm SUGGESTING is that we have a lot more to see from him than we have.... since his rookie season saw the explosion of the franchise and his second season was condensed + had no training camp. I'm SUGGESTING that the coaches do a lot more to help him; I hope they tailor the offense to his skills a ****load more than they have, because I've seen flashes of stuff beyond Dunleavy. Give him a goddamn pick. Also, Gordon, you need to develop your finishing skills.

I think Gordon can be a 17/4rebounds/5assist guy on 47%/39%. All the while being a two-way player. Even if he doesn't look like Manu when he does it, I'll take those numbers in whatever form they arrive. But, he needs more help.

I think that is the biggest thing. Yes, he can dunk alright, but his layup touch/feel is Harpring-esque at some points.

 

[theNBAnerd]

1. While the offense was still Sloan-like, it was more like Sloan101 with massive work stoppages when the ball went to the low left block. I'll guard Sloan's honor and ask you to keep his name out of this.

fair enough. we definitely agree there. but the same basic offensive framework was there, which is why i laugh when people announce that we simply don't need a true PG based on our "new" offense.

2. I'm not saying Hayward will ever rise to Manu's level. What I'm SUGGESTING is that we have a lot more to see from him than we have.... since his rookie season saw the explosion of the franchise and his second season was condensed + had no training camp. I'm SUGGESTING that the coaches do a lot more to help him; I hope they tailor the offense to his skills a ****load more than they have, because I've seen flashes of stuff beyond Dunleavy. Give him a goddamn pick. Also, Gordon, you need to develop your finishing skills.

oh i agree. i have always felt like manu is the player who gordon's style points to... i'm just saying he's a long way off from being a manu-level playmaker, and until he's there we can't just expect we'll be fine with g-time as our de facto point guard.

i've said it before -- if mo gets hurt, we're in big trouble. not like mo is a natural playmaker either, but just try to imagine our team's offense if we had to deal without mo for 4-6 weeks. *cringe*

I think Gordon can be a 17/4rebounds/5assist guy on 47%/39%. Even if he doesn't look like Manu when he does it, I'll take those numbers in whatever form they arrive. But, he needs more help.

i'm a hayward believer, too... but do realize that what you just described is essentially scottie pippen plus a three-point shot? or a slightly better-shooting manu? this is what i'm talking about with gordon... i think at some point he's going to become the victim of the ridiculously high bar people have set for him. not many players reach 17-4-5-47-39. if even pippen and manu fell short, then we're basically asking gordon to play better than two HOFers.

 

[NAOS]

Pippen's peak years were played alongside the greatest ballhog in the history of the game. And, still, Scottie had several years better than the stats I quoted.

Ginobili has had better seasons than the stats I quoted. A few. I'm suggesting that those stats are Hay's peak.

 

[theNBAnerd]

Pippen's peak years were played alongside the greatest ballhog in the history of the game. (who could blame him?)

Ginobili has had better seasons than the stats I quoted. A few. I'm suggesting that those stats are Hay's peak.

not really. ginobili is a career 45% shooter. he has shot above 47% twice -- once was last year in just 792 total minutes. the other was 2004-05 when he missed the assist number and the 3pt% you mentioned.

but point taken.

 

[NAOS]

I'm not going to split hair over 2%. Downgrade my projections if you'd like... I don't think Hay will ever = Manu or Pippen.

 

[Brown Notes]

There are 3 reasons for all the opposition to the OP.

1. Watson and Tinsley are not very good.

2. Everybody wants to see lots of Burks.

3. Our starting PG isn't that great a distributor in the first place.

You'd think if Utah needed a pure point they'd have made some kind of play for Calderon. This is what I was advocating as plan B before Mo arrived. Now that he's here it seems clear that the ball is going through the post a lot of the time. Watson and Tinsley both have serious warts which IMO offset the benefit of their passing ability, and if they are your backup 1 then Foye is your backup 2. Now Burks is buried again for the sake of playing a "real" PG while Mo rests.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Didn't Hayward have a really high TO% out of the pick n' roll last year?