http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...okie.rankings-20100309&prov=nba_com&type=lgns I was sort of amazed the other day when people were talking about Tyreke being a shoe in ROY... I think it's a dead heat and to be determined. It might be interesting to compare and contrast poster's thoughts on Evans and Curry following tomorrow night's game. STOMP
at this point, anyone picking curry over evans for rookie of the year is crazy. curry has played well enough that if he continues to pick up his play and evans falls off a little bit curry could legitimately be right there but that isn't the case right now.
Exactly. While Curry has definitely improved over the latter half of the season, it isn't even close.
Curry's stats are inflated, and even though both are losing teams, Tyreke has definitely helped improve that team more than Curry has his. Give me Reke if I was starting a new franchise, though Curry would be the better fit for our current team.
For the PGs still on their rookie contracts I can't think of anyone I'd rather have next to Roy then SC. His outside shot and PG feel puts him ahead of Westbrook and Rose. STOMP
Why is it close? Over the course of an ENTIRE season - not just the last month or two - Evans has been better: PER of 18.4 vs. 14.6. Win Shares of 4.6 vs. 2.9. Evans DRtng: 108; ORtng 110 Curry DRtng: 104; ORtng 111 http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAC/2010.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/GSW/2010.html Curry deserves to be in the conversation, but doesn't deserve to win it as of now.
Stats aside, an opposing argument I heard on some national radio show (sorry, can't remember which one) is that Curry makes his teammates better more than Tyreke. It was also suggested that Tyreke may not be well liked by teammates. All I know is he sure didn't gel with Kevin Martin.
sure, but since Curry has been consistently outplaying Evens for 2 months now and there is plenty of season left, what do you hang your hat on? How the season started when Curry wasn't getting minutes and Evens was, or how things have gone since and are trending? For the last month here is their head to heads... Points Percnt FTs 3's 3% Rbs Asst Stl TE 20.2 47% 4.3 0.4 23% 5.6 6.6 1.4 SC 22.1 46% 3.1 2.5 38% 5.6 8.1 1.6 ...and of course Curry was WC Rookie of the month in January. STOMP
Curry is slightly better than Evans for the last couple months, but Evans has been consistent for the entire year.
february curry - 21.5, 7.3, 5.3, 46.7% fg, 34.7% from 3 in 39.5 minutes evans - 20.1, 7.0, 5.8, 50.5% fg, 29.4% from 3 in 37.8 minutes you're saying that curry was better there? i don't see how that could be anything but even which would swing slightly into evans' favor for being better defensively. it basically comes down to evans being far superior to curry the first 2+ months of the season. curry had the advantage in january(though not anywhere near the margin evans had at the beginning) and since then they've been even. for curry to legitimately be considered rookie of the year he needs to either take his game to another level, have evans fall off, or both. simply continuing his play while evans continues his play doesn't make up any ground for curry.
not telling the reader what the numbers represent (specifically 2nd & 3rd categories) isn't helpful in getting your point across thats a subjective opinion at best. Mine is they're both decent on D... a push. I don't put much stock in the defensive stats for anyone... they're pretty shaky IMO did you bother to look at the last month (that includes part of March) stats I posted? Those were not even... so like I've contended all along he's been better for the last two months. Isn't that the case that you asked to be laid out? STOMP
