Like all stats it seems you missed the parts that also matter. Essentially you have hand picked the stats. Cherry picked if you will? Basketball is a team game. He was on the floor with Lillard and CJ. Go right to the very top. "These Stats indicate how the team performed" 49% of the minutes, The Team was +68. Offensively they were an astounding 156.2! While defensively they were a respectable 107.7. Obviously this is a net win of +48.5 Look at the Win/Loss 18-6 with a win rate of 75% Now comes time for interpretation. You can look at this a couple ways. To me the obvious way is to say Lillard and the rest of the team were pretty good in clutch time. Melo drew attention because he was in fact Melo. In order for this kind of stat chasing to be effective you have to pull the entire team on who was in fact on the court and what the results were. having a shooter like Melo on the floor helped his teammates get open looks. Did Melo get the ball later in the shot clock a number of times? How many of those looks were wide open? How many times did he defer? How many times did the opponent defend well against the play called. Lets be clear on something. Way too many people give Lillard credit for things that the team did and likewise. We listened to it all year last year. Lillard wanted Melo in the game at crunch time for a reason.
really?..."cherry-picked"? 82games.com is not my website. I didn't doctor any stat I posted. I simply took a screenshot of what the website said was Melo's production in what they defined as clutch. I cut out the rest of your post but you mentioned Dame; and Melo playing clutch time with Dame. And how somehow that shows that Melo's impact was much more than his shitty clutch numbers. OK, let's take a "cherry-picked" look at that first, again, Melo's clutch-time numbers: and now, Dame's clutch numbers: let's see, Dame scored 1.84 points/shot (while playing 91% of the minutes); Melo scored 0.93 points/shot (49% of minutes). And look at that, both players had a 75% winning rate. Apparently Melo proves that crappy efficiency doesn't matter in clutch-time. Maybe it's the head-band being a green light for no-conscience chucking how about the rest of the Blazers (I won't post screenshots; you can go there if you want), I'll just summarize: RoCo scored 1.64 points/shot and had a winning percentage of 74.2% (78% of minutes) CJ scored 1.30 points/shot with an 85% winning percentage (55% of minutes) Powell scored 1.06 points/shot with an 82% winning percentage (29% of minutes) Nurkic scored 0.88 points/shot with a 77% winning percentage (37% of minutes) Kanter scored 1.38 points/shot with a 60% winning percentage (35% of minutes) a cursory glance at those number might suggest that shooting efficiency has nothing to do with winning in the clutch. But that would be a pretty illogical conclusion. Obviously, there are other factors, like defense, but the best defenders on the team had a lower winning percentage than Melo....who was a pretty crappy defender. And of course, I'm not analyzing all the numbers posted for all the players....again, feel free to do so if you think it will add context having watched just about all the games, I'd tend to believe that most of those games came down to one or two shots. And it so happens that Portland had the best clutch-time performer in the NBA. Yeah, there were 4 other guys on the floor, but the Blazers had about the best guy in the league available to take that big shot; Somebody who was averaging nearly 2 points per FGA in the clutch. That's pretty phenomenal looking at those numbers, my conclusion is Portland won about 3/4 of their clutch games because of Dame first, with Melo well down the list of other reasons for wins. I remember one or two games when Melo hit big shots. I remember a lot more games when he lobbed bricks and played matador defense
if things don’t pan out this season…we clean house, bring in new blood AND blow it up. It will have to be…
I focused on some stats but did a screenshot of most of them. Not rebounding and some other minor stats I also supplied direct links to the pages. If I was going to cherry-pick I would not have done all that
Blowing this team up with a new coaching staff and bench and Dame in his prime is dumb....you give this team 3 years minimum to see what you can do in Dame's prime and get the best vets you can....last year of Dame's contract you see whether you need to completely rebuild or not. Now it's time to find the next gear and make some noise.
My statement was that you made reference to a part of it but didn't talk about the other part which was team stats. It's why i said "Cherry Pick if you will" as in i knew you didn't directly cherry pick but indirectly it left out info. Then i made my point is all. Melo sucked the life out of the team on defense no question but he did provide something on offense that might not show in personal stats is all I'm saying.
I just want to say that if you're really going to blow it up (like a total tear down and youth rebuild) you should always do so on draft day. Find the team with the right pick for the guy you want and other good young guys plus upcoming cap space and trade Dame there. Then to a lesser degree do that with everyone else except Ant and Nas. If you're just blowing it up with a retooling on the fly then we should have traded Dame for Ingram, Hayes and picks, traded CJ, RoCo and the Pelicans picks for Simmons, got some draft considerations for Nurk and kept DJJ. We still could have kept Norm at that price as our veteran leader. Ant, Norm, Ingram, Simmons, Hayes, DJJ, Nas, what we get for Nurk. All of that fun bullshit aside, I'd rather try to keep building around Dame until he doesn't want to anymore but just do it with a lot more ambition and hey maybe we'll make a Simmons trade and show that ambition and urgency to get better.
