He came out as a little better than the average 7th man. It's interesting to know what 200+ national writers think.
Anyone else see a trend there? From the bottom up, we start out about average then get steadily worse through the third string. The second stringers start out quite strong then taper off toward average. Is our strength centered around the end of the bench or will things change with the starters? Other than LMA and Lillard, I think that "average" pattern is going to hold. And if Lillard's recent #15 PG rank has any merit, he'll probably come in around average, too.
Kirk Hinrich at 183. The guy struggled to get his PER over 10 and has trouble staying in front of PGs and SGs. That rank puts him at 7th man for 27 teams. Are these rankings really good?
They are an average rating of over 200 ESPN prognosticators, then they rank them by rating. As a Blazer homer it's nice to see what the general consensus is rather than one writer who has biases and drudges.
ESPN projects Mo Williams as an average 6th man. They're not buying the "6th starter" proclamations. On a personal note, I absolutely love this. If we would have had any average 6th man coming off the bench at ANY position last year we would have been much better. The results of the bench rankings is complete. Our second 5 have a net average of 0.74 above the league average. This agrees with what I thought and what I was hoping for. Update ("Down" to 166): ------- Blazer's 6th man: 5.6, Average 6th man: 5.5 >>>>> Net: -0.1 Blazer's 7th man: 6.2, Average 7th man: 6.5 >>>>> Net: +0.3 Blazer's 8th man: 6.7, Average 8th man: 7.5 >>>>> Net: +0.8 Blazer's 9th man: 6.8, Average 9th man: 8.5 >>>>> Net: +1.7 Blazer's 10th man: 8.5, Average 10th man: 9.5 >>>>> Net: +1.0 ------- Blazer's 11th man: 12.3, Average 11th man: 10.5 >>>>> Net: -1.8 Blazer's 12th man: 12.6, Average 12th man: 11.5 >>>>> Net: -1.1 Blazer's 13th man: 13.7, Average 13th man: 12.5 >>>>> Net: -1.2 Blazer's 14th man: 14.1, Average 14th man: 13.5 >>>>> Net: -0.6 Blazer's 15th man: 14.7, Average 15th man: 14.5 >>>>> Net: -0.2 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 6th man Mo Williams (169) is ranked as a 5.6th man 7th man C. J. McCollum (185) is ranked as 6.2th man 8th man Dorrell Wright (200) is ranked as 6.7th man 9th man Thomas Robinson (204) is ranked as 6.8th man 10th man Leonard (255) is ranked as 8.5th man ------- 11th man Watson (370) is ranked as a 12.3rd man 12th man Barton (379) is ranked as a 12.6th man 13th man Crabbe (412) is ranked as a 13.7th man 14th man Claver (422) is ranked as a 14.1st man 15th man Freeland (441) is ranked as a 14.7th man
Aren't these rankings based on projected impact, not necessarily who's better. If so, I can understand the consensus that our starting center will have more of an impact (and probably play more minutes) than our backup combo guard. BNM
