Sergio's numbers are superior

by soci on Mar 20, 2009 1:25 PM PDT

by just about every metric.

See http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2009.html

Scroll down to "advanced stats."

Little known point--S leads the team in steals rate as well as assist rate.

Amazingly,their stats have Sergio as superior to both Blake and Bayless on defense. See DRtg.

82games.com also has S as superior on defense by their metric.

See

http://www.82games.com/0809/0809POR.HTM

Look at the "opp" column.

If one has been following these stats,it is noteworthy that Sergio's assist/turnover stats were very similar to those of Steve Nash for much of the year. Also, ESPN gives a lower turnover rate for S than does Basketball reference.

It is also noteworthy that the numbers of both of them have declined as the year has gone on. In particular,the numbers of Bayless have plummeted in the past few weeks. His numbers were much better a month ago.

Finally,both of them look terrible if you take PER as your guide. Both have declined considerably in recent weeks. (to #47 and #63 respectively).

See

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/statistics?sort=per&qual=true&pos=pg&seasonType=2

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This made me laugh

The words Sergio and superior in the same sentence.

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 20, 2009 1:28 PM PDT reply actions

lol ether

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by Ben Golliver on Mar 20, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Duh, 11 is at least 7 better than 4

ok now I’m just wasting bandwidth…

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by pxilpooshr on Mar 20, 2009 1:33 PM PDT reply actions

sigh....

I dig sergio….

the dead horse ain’t dead yet?

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by faith on Mar 20, 2009 1:38 PM PDT reply actions

Well, we've all known this for awhile...

Aside from the obvious stuff like Blake playing against stiffer competition than the others and Bayless being a rookie is there any other reason why he shouldn’t be heralded for his good play?

by staylost on Mar 20, 2009 1:39 PM PDT reply actions

/sarcasm

by staylost on Mar 20, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Didn't you read Dave's post

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by nikolokolus on Mar 20, 2009 1:51 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

This was posted before

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 20, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions

So it's a grandfathered dead horse. That's really something!

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by timbo on Mar 20, 2009 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions

Ruffin has a negative PER on basketball-reference. I miss Ike

by Norsktroll on Mar 20, 2009 1:52 PM PDT reply actions

These stats are incomplete

They need to track the following:

1. How big your entourage gets when you walk in downtown Portland? The truly great players will have a big following after only a couple of blocks.

2. What do these 3 each eat for breakfast? People who eat whole chickens typically are better than cereal eaters.

3. How many languages do you speak? Klingon does count by the way, as does dinosaur.

4. Do you actually know how much wood a woodchuck can chuck? If you are not zen enough to know this, you are not zen enough to be my starting PG.

Once these 4 questions are answered, the PG problem will be solved.

by Zaig on Mar 20, 2009 2:21 PM PDT reply actions

#3

Does mastadon count?

by DonkeyShins on Mar 20, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Of course Bayless was playing better a month ago

He was actually playing. With Blake out he had the oprotunity to get good minutes and he used most of them well.

by raging WebTed on Mar 20, 2009 3:23 PM PDT reply actions

I still like Jack more than

Sergio or Bayless. :(

My stubbling is perfect...

by In Walks Rudy on Mar 20, 2009 3:55 PM PDT reply actions

and Jarrett likes playing in Indy

more than he would’ve liked sitting behind Blake, Roy and Rudy in Portland

(let Jack go, he’s not walking back through the PF door)

by two4larue on Mar 20, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions

I know I need to let him go

but Serg and Bayless the JLess just don’t do anything for me.

My stubbling is perfect...

by In Walks Rudy on Mar 20, 2009 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks for posting this,

It’s nice to see

What's the point?

by maid tu rek on Mar 20, 2009 6:28 PM PDT reply actions

dont hate commenters.

serg is pretty good, just struggling this season.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGH!!!!!!!!- Sabonis getting fouled.

by sabonis on Mar 20, 2009 6:34 PM PDT reply actions

What we really want to know...

(1) Who could wash a car faster with a sponge, Sergio or Bayless?

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by timbo on Mar 20, 2009 7:26 PM PDT reply actions

................... and .........................

(2) Who could 1-up Shaq freestyling on Kobe better, Bayless or Sergio?

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by timbo on Mar 20, 2009 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions

.................... and .........................

(3) If you could only pick one of the two to dress up in a big pink Easter Bunny outfit to give out candy eggs to 6 year olds, who would be a better choice, Sergio or Bayless?

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by timbo on Mar 20, 2009 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions

This is not debatable!

by Norsktroll on Mar 20, 2009 8:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Dunno, man, he really doesn't fill out those arms very well...

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by timbo on Mar 20, 2009 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions

these metrics do not matter!

when you can watch the game and see who is actually putting some pressure on the ball rather than trying not to have their ankles broken.
Steals also seem to occur when the game is very up and down, more often when sergio is in

by blackandwite323 on Mar 20, 2009 10:21 PM PDT reply actions

putting constant pressure

isn’t exactly great defense either. granted it was due to inexperience…at the start of the year bayless was playing such tight defense when the ball was going up the court that the ballhandler would blow by him and he was running alongside the handler. i’m not seeing that as much lately, but pressure isn’t exactly the best thing either.

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by Philthyanimal on Mar 20, 2009 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions

who cares

why can’t we just root for both of them? sometimes we forget they both wear the same uniform.

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by Philthyanimal on Mar 20, 2009 11:07 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

I agree with you Philthy...

I don’t care which one of them is in the game, if they do something good, I will give them the appropriate exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by LaMarvelous on Mar 20, 2009 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions

If we did that

then there would be no sergio suppoters hating Bayless and no Bayless supporters hating on Sergio. I think Bedge would probably crash for lack of discussion topics taking up 1/10th of all fan posts.

by keepfryealive on Mar 21, 2009 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions