Comments on: Pistons regress to season-opening lows with second 0-8 stretch

By: inigo montoya

inigo montoya — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:33:03 +0000

I do look at his career stats.

In the season 2010-2011, Stuckey had the 11th highest PER among point guards.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/statistics/_/position/pg/year/2011

Note in that season Stuckey’s assist ratio was comparable to Rose’s and Westbrook’s but Stuckey had a much lower usage rate so to state that he never passes well is not supported by the facts.

Last year, when Stuckey played 75% of the time at SG, Stuckey had the 6th highest PER among SGs with a lot of minutes played, (take out Elliot Williams)

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2012_advanced.html

Note too here there were only 7 SGs with a higher assist rate.

For the 2010-2011 and 2011-12 season, Stuckey has had a shooting percentage of around 55%, this year he is around 50% so he is shooting much poorer this year. The league average is usually around 53 to 54%. I understand that a team usually wants their PGs and SGs to shoot higher than that, but a TS% of 55% although not All-Star level, is not inefficient by a long shot.

No, the prior 2 years for Stuckey were much better than his current year and the measurements, PER, assist rate, usage rate, take into consideration efficiency and minutes played.

As a GM you want to get more out of your players than you are paying them, considering that the average salary, i.e the 2nd player off the bench, is $5 million/year and the salary cap.

Using various metrics I estimate that Stuckey was putting out much more value in 2010-2011 than he was getting paid, last season he was putting out slightly more value than he was getting paid and this season Stuckey is not putting out the value he is getting paid.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:33:58 +0000

Slipping up once in a while is different. Everyone does that. These clowns do it routinely, that’s what is annoying to read constantly.

By: G

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:16:57 +0000

I do my best to stay out of the 1st person plural, but I still slip up sometimes.

What IS okay is using the 2nd person as a literary device. Example:
“You’re the Pistons’ GM. You’ve got roughly $33M coming off the cap this summer, who do you want to get & what do you want to pay for them?”
or
“You want to pick up Paul Millsap in FA? You’d have to pay around $10M to get him, you want to pay a guy that much to come off the bench?”

I think it’s also ok (feel free to disagree) to use first person singular from time to time. Example:
“I wouldn’t offer OJ Mayo more than $10M”
or
“If I were Stuckey, I wouldn’t shoot so many threes”

The implication being if I had the resources, job title and skill sets that Dumars & Stuckey possess, I would do things differently. Or whatever.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:14:32 +0000

And I’ll keep doing it until people realize how stupid it sounds.

By: Huddy

Huddy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:09:07 +0000

Stuckey hasn’t been shooting bad for “the recent past”. He has been inefficient for his career, especially at the rim. I don’t want him to play poorly but it is crazy to read things like “recently” or hopefully this is a good sign for the “future”. The guy is on his second contract and has underperformed for most of his career. Obviously he has had better years, but mostly just because of being on the floor more, he was always inefficient and inconsistent.

Also, who counts potential assists? He never passes well and everyone has to deal with people not making shots they take. Good passers still get assists and put guys in position to capitalize look at his career stats or at least more than one game.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:57:24 +0000

Brandon Knight wrote: Should the Pistons resign him this Summer?
Hell no! A Calderon signing would only represent an endorsement of mediocrity.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:52:15 +0000

Jodi Jezz, you better watch out for the PistonPowered Possessive/Personal Pronoun Police. They will really rip into you, when you type: My, We, Our, Us, etc.
Trust me I have been personally admonished.

By: Huddy

Huddy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:06:36 +0000

Calderon isn’t limited offensively, he is consistent and efficient. Passing and taking care of the ball and shooting at good percentages are far more important than occasionally having a good scoring game in a losing effort for the team. One game can really blind people to years of inconsistent play, maybe thats why Stuckey got a new contract despite his performance.

By: G

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:27:53 +0000

Nice comparison! The only difference was I could never understand why Curry was playing over Tayshaun, but in Singler’s case I don’t see anybody who deserves the starting spot more. You could make a case for Jerebko, but Singler’s probably better.

By: G

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:24:53 +0000

And don’t ignore the fact that while Stuckey had a good game, they still LOST.