http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/203501/de...http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/203501/de...http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/203501/de...http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/203501/de...Tim Hardaway's defense has shown substantial improvement over the years. Check the above links for further details but to summarize:
in 2013-2014, in 80 games, on 7.1 attempts per game, opponents shot 5.3% better than their season average (49.0% vs. 43.8%)
in 2014-2015, in 68 games, on 8.0 attempts per game, opponents shot 4.4% better than their season average (48.0% vs. 43.6%)
in 2015-2016, in 51 games, on 5.6 attempts per game, opponents shot 7.3% worse than their season average (36.0% vs. 43.3%)
in 2016-2017, in 77 games, on 8.8 attempts per game, opponents shot 3.5% worse than their season average (40.7% vs. 44.2%)
per basketball reference, Timmy's defensive rating has improved from his rookie year (114) to 114 (Yr 2) to 106 (Yr 3) to 109 in 2016-17.
also his stats per 36 minutes are comparable to Victor Olapido and Evan Fournier.
some whilst I think his contract is an 10% overpay, a case can be made that it's close to fair value.
Thx for the insight. And the 10% overpay might be necessary so that ATL doesn't match - with an RFA, you by definition have to overpay.
Good info. I'm OK with this signing.
Numbers don't lie. Good signing by the Knicks I always wanted THJ to succeed he show a lot of passion when in the floor. It didn't always translate to production though. Hopefully he continues his success and gets better and better.
With Hornacek as coach though- does he really keep this up? I do hope we fire him and replace him with JVG
smackeddog wrote:With Hornacek as coach though- does he really keep this up? I do hope we fire him and replace him with JVG
If the game has passed Phil Jackson by, then the game passed JVG by a long time ago.
Vmart wrote:smackeddog wrote:With Hornacek as coach though- does he really keep this up? I do hope we fire him and replace him with JVG
If the game has passed Phil Jackson by, then the game passed JVG by a long time ago.
Not really, Listening to JVG calling games he's kept up with the changes
He's already a crap defender and doesn't rebound.
Now he's got Melo giving him help defense and a coach like Hornaceck.
This signing has disaster written all over it.
