New Stat Analysis Pegs Collins as Nets' Best Defender

[NJNetz]

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A new statistical analysis published by 82games.com ranks the league's players by a new defensive standard, one based on plus/minus and personal efficiency ratings rather than blocks, steals and rebounds. In the analysis, Jason Collins comes out the team's top defender, followed surprisingly by Nenad Krstic, then All-NBA Defender Jason Kidd. The worst? Marcus Williams, Eddie House and another surprise, Cliff Robinson. Tim Duncan is ranked first league wide, Indiana's Shawne Williams last.</div>
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[Voodoo Child]

82games.com is usually great with statistics, but these are just plain inaccurate. I'm not talking about the way they were calculated but rather the results. Yao Ming a better defender than Shane Battier? Rudy Gay and Pau Gasol good defenders? There's a lot of weird stuff like that in this study.

 

[Legacy]

Yeah, I gotta agree with Voodoo Child on this one. These rankings look real bad. Some of it is alright, but their top ten list is pretty bad. I would expect better from 82games.

 

[Master Shake]

Jason Collins? Wow, that is surprising. I would think Kidd. I think though, Sean Williams will be the best on the team in the next few years. I knew that Marcus couldn't be top, he is a bad defender, always has been.

 

[og15]

I'm pretty sure most people already felt Collins was the best defender on the team. Could anyone actually think of another reason he plays more than 2 MPG?

I think the Yao Ming one is because he doesn't have many people to score on him at C, and even then he does defend C's well. I mean most C's shoot like 50%+, and he holds them to some low 40% amount according to the numbers, that's impressive.