Rank the best SG in the league...

[Dro210]

To be honest most of the metrics in basketball are also extremely flawed...... The eye test usually is most reliable if you can abandon your bias about the game... Which is harder for some .

There's a balance, but I agree it's people with a ty eye for the game that'll try to tell you that What you're actually seeing on the floor with your own eyes is unimportant.

I'll go with you. I also like Batum, who is being played as a SG this season.
As talented a scorer as Harden is, he's a cancer and plays no defense. You can't win ultimately like that and he's allowed to coast more than most bc of the weakness at the position. Still when Danny Green is in a down season and yet he torches Harden every time they meet, you know he's awful.
I like young kids like Devin Booker and MCCollum. Of the two I like Booker more bc he stands out in a terrible Suns team that has no one else to take attention away from him and he's so young. There are a few other kids I like but they are young and are not going to rank high on this list yet.

Props on being the only person to mention Booker.

[Kawhitstorm]

So, you ain't got the answers.

[Dro210]

LeBron shot 39% (TS: 46%) & committed 27 turnovers in 6 games while being guarded 1-on-1 by Butler; not to mention Kyrie was actually HEALTHY & available. Butler himself wasn't bad on the other end either as he averaged 21/5/2 w/ a TS of 52% & only committing 7 turnovers in the ENTIRE series: http://www.basketball-reference.com/...cavaliers.html

LeBron proceeded to destroy Carroll & the Hawks in the ECF despite BOTH Kyrie/Love being out for the series........I wonder why?

I agree with you on Butler... but a part of the reason why LeBron was so much better was straight because those guys were out, so that parts irrelevant. He and the Cavs are better without either one of 'em. Neither can play defense worth a single , and neither should have the ball over LeBron on the other end anyway. Kyrie is a scorer with handles, not a PG. They're just huge negatives when paired with somebody like him. LeBron knows it. That's why he's halfway losing his mind, he ed up by going back. Probably wishes he could get Wiggins back for Love everyday.

[Brazil]

Wow, that comment was so dumb. Not to take anything away from myself, but I havent really sank deep into analytics as chinook and Harlem. The basic stuff needs an hour or two for complete understanding and then understanding how these metrics fall in line with style, personel, fundamentals, etc is a on a different level. I wish someone out there can release a book full of advanced stuff..will make things easier to understand.

This forum needs a thread with main metrics tbh with a bit of explanation and their pros and cons but I doubt anyone would have time for that and above all would be sufficiently unbiased to dig fairly into the flaws