<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A new statistical analysis published by 82games.com ranks the league's players by a new defensive standard, one based on plus/minus and personal efficiency ratings rather than blocks, steals and rebounds. In the analysis, Jason Collins comes out the team's top defender, followed surprisingly by Nenad Krstic, then All-NBA Defender Jason Kidd. The worst? Marcus Williams, Eddie House and another surprise, Cliff Robinson. Tim Duncan is ranked first league wide, Indiana's Shawne Williams last.</div> Source
82games.com is usually great with statistics, but these are just plain inaccurate. I'm not talking about the way they were calculated but rather the results. Yao Ming a better defender than Shane Battier? Rudy Gay and Pau Gasol good defenders? There's a lot of weird stuff like that in this study.
Yeah, I gotta agree with Voodoo Child on this one. These rankings look real bad. Some of it is alright, but their top ten list is pretty bad. I would expect better from 82games.
Jason Collins? Wow, that is surprising. I would think Kidd. I think though, Sean Williams will be the best on the team in the next few years. I knew that Marcus couldn't be top, he is a bad defender, always has been.
I'm pretty sure most people already felt Collins was the best defender on the team. Could anyone actually think of another reason he plays more than 2 MPG? I think the Yao Ming one is because he doesn't have many people to score on him at C, and even then he does defend C's well. I mean most C's shoot like 50%+, and he holds them to some low 40% amount according to the numbers, that's impressive.
