This is the percentage of opponents possessions that end with blocks when he's on the floor - the same thing when he's off Now that's what most people look at… flat out block stats but those do not really mean anything, without context stats are meaningless does it mean he's a better defender than player B, who only plays Centers and guards layups and dunks all day?Īs for blocks most of Kevin Durants blocks come from not having any rim protectors when he's on the floor and being 7’ he is put into rim protecting duties and is pretty bad at it overall This one seriously annoys me because of how overrated Kevin Durant is at blocking, I've seen some people say he's better than most Centers by using metrics use to compare Centers on a SF although they do not work at allįor example, if player A has a lower opponent FG% which means that opponent he is actively defending shoot this percentage, player A is a SF so players against him take threes, shot the MidRange and drive into the paint. So need I add more? Do not trust the media on super stars they do not know what they are talking about Oh and while we are at it since teams do not do this in the playoffs look at playoff On-Off defensive Rating Thanks to this they can play the P&R against Gasol, Parker and Aldridge, he is the only player in the NBA to have this happen to him,with big men it would be impossible but this PROVES that Kawhi is the best perimeter defender in the NBA for the simple fact this is a thing If you have been living under a rock and refused to read the article I linked Kawhisolation is something Teams made so that they can counter Kawhi by quite literally taking him out of the Equation and putting him as fair away as possible from the action. Kawhi has worse of an impact because of a strat called Kawhisolation. In fact his teams defensive Rating drops by 0.6 when he's on the floor, now I hear you say “well Kawhi makes his teams defense worse too” and that's true but you are taking it outa context. Kawhi has only made his team worse defensively this season.
“Now give credit where credit is due, Kevin Durant has stepped up his defensive game a lot this season” So since 36 > 25.5 i think scoring goes to Kawhi any day of the week. This combined with Kawhi being the best defender in the league (if you disagree hes top 3 but its still just as impressive) means that this is arguably the best season for a 25 year old since Michael Jordan and arguably the second best from someone that young EVER, and remember that MJ was allowed to play a lot more minutes(121% more to be exact) so i won't be going into detail on why his season is better than MJs 37.2ppg season as that's for another blog but the summary is this is essentially a top 5 all time season with those stats so how is he not better than someone about 7th in MVP voting? And while this is an estimate these are still All-Time great season numbers. So most of you expected this but playing in pops offense means, lower basic stats, less steals, more blocks and a much higher TS% and although this was expected the actual numbers still have a MUCH higher effect than just a repetitive sentence. If adjusted for pace and pop Kawhi averages These are the stats I used in my poll recently as the result comparing them to Kevin Durant's stats was a 87-13 win percentage wise.
LaMarcus might not play the same position but both are forwards and he is the only superstar to join the Spurs so it's the best I can do
So what i decided was accurate was to use how much his stats changed and adjust Kawhi's stats to that change This is most obvious when you look at LaMarcus Aldridge in Portland vs LaMarcus in San Antonio. The system Pop has in place makes it so that bench players production rises but stars production drops So one of the biggest reasons why Kawhi doesn't have unbelievable numbers this season is Gregg Popovich.
So now that you will not complain about his scoring stats let me show you what the stats actually look likeĪnd let me remind you the shooting percentage is only different thanks to the Warriors incredible floor spacing and it's already really close And his usage rate has only gone down by 0.2 which is less than the difference between Harden and LeBron. This is obvious when you see his stats, he takes about 3 less shots a game but only makes 0.8 less. Better teamates does not hurt the number one options scoring the lack of shots is made up for by higher quality shots so it does not matter, Kevin Durant is the #1 option in Golden State and therefore takes less but higher quality shots Kevin Durant’s scoring has not been hurt basically at all by his teamĭo not believe me? Look at the numbers and use common sense. Now this one is one where I see a lot f misconceptions, so let me clear them up.
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