Comparing Dalembert and Hawes in Individual Defense

Maybe 31. I heard it was recently made available.

I think his presence can really help to improve team defense overall. I even wouldn’t be surprised if Landry will improve his defensive rebounding when he’s playing alongside a good rebounding C.

Good trade, I think, but I wonder if the perception may change a bit if the Sixers manage a favorable buy-out of Noce’s contract. I assume that is still a possibility, no?

I just moved from very slightly leaning in favor of this move to “absolutely over-joyed” for this trade. We get rid of Noce’s contract and add an almost histroically elite defensive rebounder and very good low defender—arguably the single greatest need in Sactown. I’m for it.

[tongue in cheek]And we still have room for Lebron this year or ’Melo next year[/tongue in cheek]

I had him traded somewhere right before the All Star break if he didn’t show anything.

Synergy measures out a player’s defensive and offensive stats based on plays they were involved in but it’s difficult to figure out pick and rolls because they measure the resulting play. So if they call a pick and roll and it falls apart but nobody takes a shot and they reset, it doesn’t count. Also it’s difficult to try and quantify the screener’s role in the pick and roll play. I am sure stat guru’s in Houston have figured out a way to determine a successful pick and what not, but Synergy seems to only focus on the resulting shot.

Synergy has broken down offensive and defensive plays into specific categories of measurement. They are Isolation Plays, Pick & Roll Ball Handler, Post-Up, Spot-Up, Off Screen, and Hand Off. It would be hard trying to use their data to come up with a reliable answer.
 

These two guys had 30-40 plays each guarding the P&R Roll man. Not much.

I’m under the impression a) more PFs than Cs participate in P&R’s today, b) guards finish the play rather than the bigs more frequently, and/or c) when the big in a P&R pops, that counts as a spot-up possession instead of a P&R Roll defensive possession.

I can check the video this weekend, if I remember/get time. I’d be interested to hear why you think Dalembert is a bad P&R defender.

Arco knows what a blocked shot looks like. There might be stunned silence while the crowd tries to figure out if something illegal just happened.

The Haitian Sensation. Winner Winner

Good trade, Wolf. I like it.

And if we get a good big in the draft you won’t have to talk about getting a new big at all. How about that? :)

one year too late. Would have been interesting to see him playing in the Princeton with Eddie Jordan.

Rondo still manages to get his rebounds despite playing with all those big men in Boston.

weren’t on the offensive end, they were/are defensive.

and Sammy only averages 2 points per game less than Spencer. I think.

will this be a wake up call to Spencer that he needs to concentrate more on having an NBA career than a college academic career?

I am of the belief that with his class graduating this year, Spencer will either begin to see that he needs to fulfill his NBA demands or he will just drfit further into his “next life” after the NBA.

But I am just chucking poorly formed excrement at the wall at this point. I just always had the impression (based on my observations which are both distant and distorted) that Spencer longed for the college life and the pursuit of academia more than the usual NBA youngster.