Recent content by KqWIN

Wizards are finally starting Tre and he's delivering. Special, special shooter.

Key being the #2 worst and not #1 being in a metric is being considered a win. That’s kind of where we’re at with that rn lol. I think the best rationale for thinking Key is not actually this bad or can have a quick turnaround is the belief that our defense is artificially bad because of...

I mean….you're making the argument for me given their study design. Beyond the obvious selection bias you are proving my point by defining what r2 is. If you or anyone else actually want to discuss why this is a horrible study, PM me. I’m not gonna flood the thread anymore but I am happy to...

Self report with that article lol. That was a brilliant study design and great execution that led to this conclusion. I love to draw causation from R2’s of 0.12 or less. The article speaks for itself. I never said it was perfect or that it was gospel, I simply tried to explain what it is and...

In the cons section, it’s referring to the synergistic effects of two players. If you had 5 clones of Rudy Gobert together it would likely not perform as well as 5 Rudy level players of different skillets. If you’re making the argument that playing with Love is uniquely bad for Keyonte and...

Different teammates affect APM in the same way that different league averages TS% affect relative TS%. That is to say that accounting for that difference is the entire point. You are the only person who used the language “is not impacted by”. I never said teammates do not impact APM. I’ve been...

The adjustment in APM is because it adjusts for the teammates. I seriously don’t know how to make this more clear. It’s all about performance relative to who a player shares the court with. A more simple example would be a relative TS%. With relative true shooting, you compare true shooting to...

You realize it’s affected by your teammates because it accounts for the strength of your teammates. It doesn’t punish you for having worse teammates, it sees that you have worse teammates and adjust the individual rating because of it. That is the entire point of the stat. For example, if you...

Did you read this part? I recommend you read this section and then determine whether or not it takes into account that he plays with Love sometimes. The issues you mentioned are not specific to a Key-Love pairing. If you’d like me to explain I can, but please do read this following portion...

I’m sorry, but that is not how they work. Things like teammate synergy or scheme could affect these numbers, but if you don’t think the numbers address the relative strength of teammates and opponents you are misunderstood. That is the entire point of APM. Ironically, you are arguing in favor of...

I was referring pure RAPM in my post, which Keyonte is very last place in. But there’s really no point in fussing over whether or not he’s worst, 5th worst, 10th worst….whatever. It’s very bad. These numbers do not account for everything perfectly, but they do in fact account for teammate...

I don’t mean to rain on his parade either. He could be on a Garland/Maxey trajectory. Offensively he is there. But even though those guys are bad defenders I’m hesitant to say Keyonte is even on their level. To be a str on their level he needs to defend on that level, which is really just going...

Doubt it. DFG% means you just happen to be the closest player next to a shot. When away from the rim, that includes a lot of open shots. As we know, you can’t really control open shooting. Closer to the rim it could have some validity, away from the rim is way more random. To be clear, I’m...

Meh…those DFG% numbers don’t say much and especially so the further away you get from the basket. Adjusted +\- numbers can also be noisy, but what we can say for certain is that we aren’t defending any better when he’s on the court. It’s worse than last season and shockingly bad. I’ll start...

I think Key is one of the biggest benefactors of the uptick in FT’s. I hate that it’s called this way, but if this going to be the way it is might as well take advantage. He’s made other improvements, of course, but he really has the perfect set of skills to take advantage. I thought he had a...