Honestly, not sure where to find those advance stats and don't have that much time. I just visit ST a few times/day
Timvp mentioned those below the FT line stats for Tre in his post season players analysis, he, like Sochan can have "decent" assist/pass stats but it doesn't give a proper picture bc of the instance I gave u regarding the way "regular" assists are counted.
Today those are A LOT more generous than they used to be.
TP passing to TD in the post almost never gave him an assist for ex, today they give u an assist even if you just pass away the ball.
When I criticise Sochan's passing, it's not technically just the ability to pass itself (not rocket science) but his lack of court vision and habbit of dribbling head down that makes him miss countless of obvious and often easy assists.
I never thought that him Tre or Vassel hated on Vic, but each of them have had logical bb explanation .
Tre for ex, is very smart and never/rarely tries anything that he isn't confident he can do, hence his hesitation at throwing lobs or ast below the FT line, those represent a higher risk of TO. Devin is a bit in the same case eventho contrary to Tre he's shown since post ASG a willingness to work on it and take risks. He's shown massive improvement to the point of passing Tre as Vic's best passer. (for all the criticism I've had for the 1st half of the seson, I seem to be among the minority now on ST who really believe in him and can't wait to see his playmaking and passing progesses)
Sochan is different, just a guess, but I think he has so many aspects of his game to work on that passing doesn't appear as a priority compare to his shooting. Let's hope he's had time to work on it this summer.
As for his connection with Wemby, Sochan assisted Vic 49 times this season on 74 games played. That's 1.5 ast/game to Vic, which seems decent at 1st, but then u realised that he had a few games with +3-4 ast to him (I recall the MIL game for ex), which means there have been plenty of games wihtout any ast, in those there's also a month of him playing PG (with a lot of opp to assist Vic).
Now u can keep this debate on the analytic side or u can just use common sense and ur memory of the games. I haven't missed a game and we've all witness Vic's teammates struggle to pass him the ball in postion.
what is really bothering u? That it's Sochan in particular?
I genuinely don't get why you're so defensive when I'm not even a hater and said multiplt time I'm still hopefull Jeremy will improve on his fundamentals.
If you're trying to sell Sochan as a good passer I just don't get it... Forget the stats, we haven't seen the same games
Aside of saying that I'm wrong, you haven't brought any argumwnt that would defend your point. (If I come a tell someone he's wrong, it's on me to justify or argument, not the guy i'm criticising...
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