Al was our best defender; JT our best offensive player
Here's how all members of the Boston Celtics have fared on both ends of the floor during the 2023 NBA postseason, per TPA. pic.twitter.com/yHAevqP9RC
— NBA Math (@NBA_Math) April 29, 2023
by horseshoeoverlook
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As much as Smart frustrated me in Game 5, he really did have a solid series all around: 16/4/5 on 49/39/73 splits is pretty good for having such a hard defensive assignment. Also averaged 1.7 steals.
What is TPA? How is it calculated?
Brogdon hasn’t been playing as well as he usually does. I don’t think he’s been bad lately, but I def expect to see him play better against Philly.
Death, taxes, and
Tatum being an advanced metrics darling while Brown is an advanced metrics donkey
TPA is pretty flawed btw for anyone who’s looking at this and taking it as gospel (which this sub tends to do). It’s basically just box plus – minus redefined.
Brogdon usually gets screwed by advanced metrics because of our starting 5 is so good, of course when they sit the team is going to do worse. Brogdon also wasn’t as good as he could’ve been but he usually gets the short end of the stick with certain metrics because of the strength of our starting 5
Love opening these tweets and seeing the replies call Jaylen mid, stagnating the offense, bad for half the series, poor defensively etc. because an “advanced” metric supports their shit narrative.
Instead of actually watching the game and acknowledging what he brought to the team this series.
Outside of game 1 Brogdon was great this series especially at initiating the offense and making timely plays when we needed it. It’s why you have to have nuance with these plus minus based stats.
The scaling is weird but if you look at it, it’s basically “horford is as good defensively as tatum is offensively” with is pretty remarkable
Why do advanced numbers hate JB so much lol
I know its asking a lot out of a 36 year old defensive specialist, but if Al could improve even just a little bit on the offensive end vs Philly that would be huge