[Post Game] A clear tank job is in full swing

Easy to see we are done here. Excuses don't make you sick. Being in fact sick makes you sick. Take care RoyToy.

 

Being sick might pull down your performance 20% one game, 10% the next, 5% the next and it's over. His performance has been down 80% for a number of games now, so illness is just an excuse.

The reason is that the offense emphasizes Aldridge over him, so it takes extraordinary energy for him to break a play and attack the basket. But Aldridge is good for only one thing, so Stotts has Aldridge shoot.

 

80% sure seems like a number pulled directly from you know where.

Here is his game log this season:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/batumni01/gamelog/2013/

He has 3 games all year under double-digit points. That is actually pretty good. Blue9 had a nice thread months ago on the OregonLive forum where he showed that Batum is actually one of the more consistent SF's in the league outside of the big 3 in the league (LeBron, Durant if you want to classify him as SF, and Carmelo). People say he hasn't changed and that is true because for the last few years he has already been consistent.

If blue9 happens to see this I hope he will repost the thread.

 

You may want to try him between 8 am and 5 pm. He said he responds more during work time.

Btw, it's nice seeing you here, Rollin.

 

I decided he didn't dip enough to argue over it. His efficiency points per minute dropped from great (60+) to good (40-49) to mediocre (25-39) in the 3 games before the Wizards loss (Minnesota, Brooklyn, Detroit). He never dropped to awful, just mediocre, so I will cease and desist since he showed signs of revival in the Wizards game.

Minutes...eff...efficiency points per minute
44.6 18 .40 Washington
37.8 11 .29 Detroit
37.8 12 .32 Brooklyn
36.1 09 .25 Minnesota
32.6 15 .46
38.3 16 .42
46.6 37 .79
33.3 21 .63
40.2 15 .37
39.1 37 .95
40.3 23 .57
35.8 16 .45
44.7 29 .65
36.7 -4 -.11
40.4 27 .67

To get the per minute stat, the above spreadsheet was sourced from

http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketbal...yers/nicolas-batum/gamelog/13/25/355/1-1-date

 

Efficiency just adds a player's box score line into one number. Everywhere except ESPN it's defined as

Points + rebounds + assists + steals + blocks - turnovers - missed FG - missed FT

I used it so I wouldn't have to indidually compare Batum's games by rebounds, then by points, then by assists, etc. You can do it for one game or cumulatively for many.

Hoopsstats is the best site for efficiency stats examined from every angle, except per minute, so I had to feed its per game eff into a simple little spreadsheet to convert to per minute. The result would be a little close to each player's points if you multiply the eff/min by 48 to get eff/48 min. But I didn't. I just used eff per minute.