Ok, If my post insulted you, I apologize. I personally don't think delusional is an insult word, I simply meant to say that you are believing what you want to believe.
Now you listed 4 games where Ryan Anderson had poor shooting nights out of 17 games. How many poor shooting nights has Yi had poor shooting games out of 17? Could it be you didn't or choose not to list Yi's short commings because he's had plenty more poor shooting performances?
well lets list them then.
Yi's bad shooting Nights:
11/1 vs GSW 0-4
11/7 vs IND 1-10
11/12 vs IND 4-13
11/14 vs ATL 1-4
11/15 vs ATL 2-6
11/18 vs CLE 3-12
11/25 vs LAL 3-9
Ryan Anderson's bad shooting nights:
10/29 vs WSH 1-3
11/4 vs PHX 1-3
11/18 vs CLE 1-4
11/22 vs LAC 1-5
11/25 vs LAL 1-8
11/29 vs UTA 1-6
Ok, 7 Bad shooting nights in 17 games for Yi(.411) vs 6 Bad shooting nights in 14 games played for Ryan(.428) (Ryan played in 15 games, but the one game he played 2 minutes and have 0 fga doesn't count). I don't see Ryan doing better.
Ryan anderson a few games back was leading the nba in 3 point shooting, but you failed to mention that.
What's the point of mentioning that? anyone can get lucky and get that honor 5 games into the season. Yi actually have better 3p% right now.
Yi gets to play with the starters and is the 4th option or even the 3rd option. Ryan Anderson plays with the second unit when he comes in , and usually finishes the games with the starters because of Yi's foul problems ( poor defense?) or in disappearing act. When you play with the starters like VC and Devin Harris the stars will get doubled teamed and a kick out pass goes to a role player who is expected to make the shot. Yi is failing at that.
I think you are using "usually" too loosely. while I don't have the exact numbers, but Ryan Anderson finished game with first units for only 2-3 games. Saying he
usually finishes games with the starters definitely is one of your delusional thinking I was talking about. (I mean no offense here). I will comment on how playing with starter will affect his play later.
If Ryan Anderson was starting would he be making those open looks? Would Ryan Anderson be getting the same wide open looks that Yi gets? Would he be hitting those shot? We will never know because Ryan hasn't started yet.
When Ryan is with the second unit his shots are mostly contested because double teams don't really occur with the second units out there. So Ryan Anderson is making more shots than Yi at the same position being more contested than Yi.
This logic has been argued over and over again on other boards, do you people better when you play along side star players? you can argue either way. Ray Allen should get more open shots in boston as the 3rd option than he did as first option in Seattle right, since KG and PP will get double teamed and Ray Allen would be wide open right? By your logic, his % should be better and get more points? Neither are true. This is not set in stones. Coming off the Bench means you are playing other teams second Unit as well. Bottom line is, we can make argument for whichever side, so it's really not something concrete that you can convince anyone.
Other Questions:
Does Ryan Anderson pass better than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson have better BB IQ than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson play better defense than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson get to the line more and make more FT's than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson make his own shot better than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson have better post moves than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson take more charges than Yi?
Does Ryan Anderson dive on the floor and scrap more than YI?
Good Questions, Ryan probably has slight advantage in most of them. Some of them are arguable. But three of them he definitely does not do better than Yi.
Ryan does not play better defense than Yi.
Ryan does not make his own shot better than Yi.
Ryan does not have better post moves than Yi.
There are some questions I could ask too.
Does Yi run the floor better?
Does Yi get open more often?
Does Yi alter more shots?
Does Yi have harder defensive assignments against first unit players?
Does Yi rebound better?
Does Yi get back on Defense faster?
If Ryan Anderson truly performed much better than Yi, Frank would be stupid not to start him. He might say he's letting Yi swim or sink, that might not be his true intention or thoughts.