Nurkic is our 2nd best Player, and it's not even close

He has never averaged as many assists as McCollum since both have been starting. If it makes you feel better to eliminate Thompson that's fine as I have already proven that McCollum isn't one of the worst passing sg in the history of the NBA. What's also interesting is offensively the career stats between McCollum and Thompson are fairly close. One thing to factor in is that GS has been one of the best offensive teams in the history of the game. You would think that would lead to more assists. Passing to a Steph Curry and Kevin Durant is a nice luxury for any teammate to have.

 

Keep trying Jennifer

 

Yes, not even close. Nurk is closer to our best player (he's not!) than to 3rd best.
PS. Aminu is our 3rd best player.

 

c'mon man...that's just ridiculous

Klay plays with Curry, Durant, and Green. Those three average 18.1 assists/game which is only 3 less then the entire Blazer team averages. Klay's role is to catch and shoot. CJ has to have the ball in his hands 5 times as long as Klay does...dribble dribble dribble

Gordon plays with Harden and CP3. Those guys dominate the ball and the offense...and Gordon plays off the bench

the other 3 guys I'm not even going to justify or rationalize, one way or the other, how they play or the roles they fill for their teams. But congratulations on searching long enough to find SG's who may or may not be worse at finding teammates than CJ is

but let's go back to the CJ/Klay example. Obviously, the Warriors have no need to have Klay act as a playmaker; they have that covered big-time. But Portland is so desperate for someone other than Dame to carry the burden of running the offense, they "have" to play Turner 25 minutes a game. And this isn't something new this year. The Blazers have desperately needed that 2nd playmaker since the Aldridge team broke up, and CJ's response to his team's obvious need has to become more of a black hole every single season as shown by the progression of his assist average:
2015-16 4.3 2016-17 3.6 2017-18 3.4 2018-19 2.5

sure....we've been hammering CJ a lot around here and probably some of it is unfair...or at least missing some context. But when it comes to CJ with the ball in his hands consistently calling his own offense over that of more efficient teammates, all the criticism is deserved.

 

And I'm staying with my prediction from a few months ago, that Nurk will end up being the best center in the NBA.

 

RPM has only Jokic and Vucevic ahead of him this year. That's a small sample for RPM but we'll see how the long run goes. I feel like Nurk is improving greatly on offense and already elite defensively. Very high IQ. Hope his FT% holds up as that's big deal for someone who gets fouled as much as he does.

 

Boy, those are some horrible shooting guards on your list.

 

I'm not going to pretend like I watch a lot of Warriors basketball, but I always thought of Klay as a catch-and-shoot type of guard. Or spot up and shoot.

 

Digging into this further, it looks like CJ is trending worse.

This year, nearly a third of his passes are to Dame, and he's only getting half an assist out of nearly 9 passes a game he makes to Dame.



Last year, the targets of his passes were a bit more varied.


This was the year prior


Key takeaway is a marked increase in frequency of passes to Dame. And we know Dame likes to dribble and create his own offense. That means the passer doesn't get an assist. Maybe that's why CJ's ast% is so pitiful-- a deliberate change in the offense that he can't control. Even Jusuf is expanding his game and passing more himself rather than just finishing on the P&R.

 

Nope.

Has a lot to do with Lillaed not being a catch and shoot type player. He usually shoots off the dribble or drives to the basket.. That doesn't lead to assists

 

I know, I said the exact same thing.

 

The Ongoing Evolution of Jusuf Nurkic

https://www.thespax.com/nba/the-ongoing-evolution-of-jusuf-nurkic/

 

FIFY

Nice to meet you Jennifer.

 

From the article:

If we take a look at the NBA’s TPA metric, Nurkic’s value is made even more clear. It calculates offensive points Added and defensive Points Saved based on adjusting offensive box plus / minus (OBPM) and defensive box plus / minus (DBPM) to account for the number of possessions the player in question is present for. The sum of these two values is finalized as Total Points Added. Among those who haven’t reached their sixth season in the NBA, Nurkic’s 108.67 total points added is the fourth-highest this year. In similar minutes, Nurkic has more total points added than Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid, Jimmy Butler, Kyle Lowry, and DeMar DeRozan. All of these players have been on an All-NBA team at one point in their respective careers.

 

Generally speaking, European players all have great fundamentals. That’s a credit to the coaching overseas. When euros bust it’s usually mental, often times a product of being overmatched physically, and/or having trouble assimilating to life in America. Nurkic not only is bigger than everyone, but what really separates him is his supreme confidence in himself. He doesn’t give a fuuuuck and isn’t scared of anyone. He was like that in Denver when he wasn’t even established.

What we’re seeing now is everything kind of coming together. I hope Stotts keeps running the offense through him, even when adversity hits, and it will hit, because it hits everyone. Just please god don’t revert back to hopscotch mccollum when it does. There aren’t ten centers with more all around talent than Nurkic. There may not even be five.

 

Nice article, but this sentence is completely untrue:

As an oldy-but-goodie, it's really weird to see a screen set (in the first video) so freaking far from the basket - it's really a new NBA.

 

Careful..... Some may interpret that as a slight of the AAU system in America which could be seen as racist.

 

I’ll say this; Cuban wasn’t wrong.