Sure, the 300 minutes Giles played in college tells us a ton. Certainly more than the 1500+ minutes he's played in the NBA, in which he's scored, rebounded, assisted, and overall played better than Zach. But sure, Zach's performance in 1 year as a reserve in the WCC speaks volumes about his future.
Not sure, but I do know for a fact that Giles is Stott’s nephew on his wife’s side.
How are Zach's NBA stats better than Giles'? Are we focusing only on blocks and threes?
This why we will never see a championship while Stotts is coaching.
Zach show he can hit the 3 plus he better defender on the premieter then Giles and both can block shots but Zach changes shots around the rim and don't see Giles does that right now. Now Giles can do more then Zach on offense but I believe Stotts would go with Zach over Giles due that they need more defense role then the offense role playing on either unit. But Zach might get shut out in the game due to Melo playing the 4. But we will see but there going be disappointment I will 2 or 3 players. Stotts going to play Melo at the 3 or 4 and that's going to hurt players like Trent Hood Zach for minutes. Kanter going hurt Giles for playing time even though Giles is out playing Kanter right in the first two preseason games. But this is when we are healthy.
Most the stats give Giles slight edge on Zach but shooting the 3 in Stotts offense is the biggie in all those stats. I have seen Zach switch off on guards and been pretty successful holding his own with them. Plus I said before both can block shots but Zach has 2 6 block games in his career and one of them was against the Lakers. Zach also make people miss on shots because he contest majority of the shots. I don't see Giles does that through out his career. We can look at stats all day long try figure who the best players but sometimes throw the stats aside and watch the little thing a player does to help a team to win and Zach has decent +- record for this team. Now don't get me wrong I like both players and think they both can play next to each and be successful because both have different skill set that actually benefits both players.
I'll bet if he dominates the second unit and doesn't share the ball or shots, there will be a player or two that comments on it.
Apparently you're supposed to read the stats, then reinterpret them based on team record, player role, game significance, and roster composition, in order to not "twist" them...
The problem with Giles is that since we'll be over the cap, we'll need to use a cap exception to re-sign him. Since he's come here on a one-year deal, we don't have bird rights, so the largest exception we'll have available to re-sign him is the mid-level (possibly even the taxpayer mid-level). If some other team wants to offer him more than that, we have no options under the CBA to offer more.
Yep... but that's never going to happen as long as NO is around. Because, as you know - CJ is a foundational piece for this team.
