PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS 2008-09 MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS Congratulations and respect are due to BRANDON ROY, who led the Trailblazers in quality basketball this season. Congratulations and respect are due to BRANDON ROY, who contributed more than any other player to the Trailblazers this season. HISTORIC SUPER STARS None SUPERSTARS BRANDON ROY STARS Joel Przybilla LaMarcus Aldridge OUTSTANDING PLAYERS: SOLID STARTERS None BEST BY SIDE OF COURT BEST OFFENSIVE PLAYER Brandon Roy BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER Joel Przybilla PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS FINAL REAL PLAYER RATINGS 2008-09 Regular Season Quality of Players: Includes all tracked actions and hidden defending Brandon Roy POR 0.981 Joel Przybilla POR 0.852 LaMarcus Aldridge POR 0.840 Steve Blake POR 0.721 Greg Oden POR 0.720 Rudy Fernandez POR 0.695 Sergio Rodriguez POR 0.659 Travis Outlaw POR 0.636 Nicolas Batum POR 0.580 Channing Frye POR 0.455 Jerryd Bayless POR 0.363 SCALE FOR REGULAR SEASON REAL PLAYER RATINGS Perfect for all Practical Purposes / Major Historic Super Star 1.100 and more Historic Super Star 1.000 1.099 Super Star 0.900 0.999 A Star Player / A Well Above Normal Starter 0.800 0.899 Outstanding Player: A Solid Starter 0.750 0.799 Major Role Player / Good Enough to Start 0.700 0.749 Good Role Player / Often a Good 6th Man 0.640 0.699 Satisfactory Role Player 0.580 0.639 Marginal Role Player 0.520 0.579 Poor Player 0.460 0.519 Very Poor Player 0.400 0.459 Extremely Poor Player and less 0.399 NOTE REGARDING LOW REGULAR SEASON RATINGS Players rated below about .550 sometimes get playing time based largely on factors outside of RPR, but valued by coaches and other players, such as: --Great energy, effort, and hustle --Toughness, such as diving after loose balls and taking charges --Leadership and/or knowledge, especially in the case of veterans --Perceived potential for future improvement in terms of real basketball production, especially in the case of young players --See User Guide for more REAL PLAYER PRODUCTION Real Player Production (RPP) is the factored sum of all the good things minus the sum of all the bad things a player has done since the season began. Starting in June 2009, RPP is upgraded to include an estimate for the value of each player's hidden defending. See the User Guide for complete details about this. RPP adjusted for hidden defending is called Total Real Player Production (TRPP). Generally, only TRPP will appear in reports. PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS FINAL TOTAL REAL PLAYER PRODUCTION 2008-09 Regular Season Quantity of Players: Includes all tracked actions and an estimate for hidden defending Brandon Roy POR 2848.57 LaMarcus Aldridge POR 2524.24 Joel Przybilla POR 1662.20 Steve Blake POR 1578.37 Travis Outlaw POR 1428.27 Rudy Fernandez POR 1384.55 Greg Oden POR 945.51 Nicolas Batum POR 842.74 Sergio Rodriguez POR 806.78 Channing Frye POR 339.38 Jerryd Bayless POR 237.92 ========== OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE SUB RATINGS ================================== PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS OVERALL OFFENSIVE SUB RATINGS 2008-09 Regular Season Offensive Quality: Includes all non-trivial offensive actions Brandon Roy POR 0.710 LaMarcus Aldridge POR 0.523 Steve Blake POR 0.485 Sergio Rodriguez POR 0.470 Greg Oden POR 0.427 Rudy Fernandez POR 0.427 Travis Outlaw POR 0.394 Nicolas Batum POR 0.338 Channing Frye POR 0.308 Jerryd Bayless POR 0.293 Joel Przybilla POR 0.291 PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS OVERALL DEFENSIVE SUB RATINGS 2008-09 Regular Season Defending Quality: Includes both tracked and hidden defending Joel Przybilla POR 0.560 LaMarcus Aldridge POR 0.318 Greg Oden POR 0.293 Brandon Roy POR 0.271 Rudy Fernandez POR 0.268 Nicolas Batum POR 0.242 Travis Outlaw POR 0.242 Steve Blake POR 0.236 Sergio Rodriguez POR 0.188 Channing Frye POR 0.147 Jerryd Bayless POR 0.070 The breakdown between hidden and unhidden is available on request. <a href="http://nuggets1reference.blogspot.com/2009/06/user-guide-for-real-player-rating.html" target="_blank">THE USER GUIDE </a>for this and other reports using Real Player Rating IS UPDATED SUBSTANTIALLY as of June 9, 2009. You must use the <a href="http://nuggets1reference.blogspot.com/2009/06/user-guide-for-real-player-rating.html" target="_blank">User Guide</a> if you want to fully understand the value of the ratings, and also to best determine how you could best use them.
The ratings system exposes Trailblazers shortcomings that are worse in the playoffs than in the regular. Here's a few: --A shortage of good defenders in general and especially a shortage of good man to man/recognition/rotoation defenders. --Without going off the deep end like George Karl, Portland has to put more emphasis into defending. --Greg Oden has not come near to potential. --The only great Portland defensive player, Przybilla, is not a good offensive player at all. --Brandon Roy is kind of close to being, but is not an historic superstar, as Kobe Bryant etc are. --Beyond Roy, Portland needs all of it's players in general to be a little better than they were this year, in order to actually contend to win the West.
