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Stats suggest: Batum is better

Just to, you know, balance out some recent discussion, this from Sean Highkin, Portland Roundball Society:

On Nicolas Batum's Growth as a Pick-and-Roll Playmaker and Elsewhere

Two months into the season, Batum has made it abundantly clear that he’s worth the Blazers’ investment in him. He’s been a perfect fit for Terry Stotts’ movement-heavy, free-flowing offense, and the degree to which he’s thriving in his setting only drives home how much his talents were being wasted as a glorified spot-up shooter under Nate McMillan. He’s proven that he has the ability to score in a wider variety of ways, something that was clear to anyone who watched him with the French national team in the Olympics this summer...