Matt 🎗

DEEEEEETROIT BAAAAASKETBALL

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk If that’s what you think happened then you did not actually watch the playoffs. Both the cavs and magic set Duren up in pick and pops to draw him out and he fell for it every time…

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk I think you need to watch the playoffs again and see how poorly JD actually played. He was getting hunted by low offensively productive centers. It’s the job of a center to protect the paint and JD couldnt help off or protect the paint… the stats just back the eye test up

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk Jalen Duren was getting manhandled 1 on 1 by Wendell Carter Jr. why are we talking about Ausar here

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@LieOnMyHill @Pistons__Talk No one is arguing that Paul shouldnt have been in those games, the argument is based on the fact that Jalen Duren was completely unplayable and the biggest liability on the floor not named Daniss Jenkins

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk Btw that 22 year old was in the 11th percentile for opponent points per possession, 1st percentile in opponent eFG%, and 23rd percentile in opponent TOV%. That is quite literally the WORST defense on the team during the playoffs, WORSE than Duncan…

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk No one is letting a bad playoff run define a 22 year old. We’re letting a terrible playoff run define why that 22 year old should not have been soaking up 3/4 of the center minutes

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk And no they dont, find me a low level all star player whose production got halved in 7 playoff games and then magically returned to form for the next 7.

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@LieOnMyHill @Pistons__Talk This has always been a problem with JB, it’s part of the reason why he’s never been to a conference finals as a head coach. Ask Cavs fans, they’ll tell you the same thing

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@ayyo_arob @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk Players dont tap into that potential after getting punked in 14 consecutive games, and yes thats a huge question. Ausar get’s 0 leniency from JB, so why did Duren get to play 422 total playoff minutes compared to Stew’s 165 and Paul’s 83

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@LieOnMyHill @Pistons__Talk Its the playoffs. If you dont perform, you dont play. You dont get leniency in a playoff series unless your coach is JB…

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@BeefStewDPOY @Pistons__Talk They were both backseats to Duren. That’s the problem. Duren was the most useless player on the court even more useless than a no knee stew.

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@boogeymangyujbg @michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk The team went to Reed and he still didnt even get more minutes than Duren who was arguably the worst player in the entirety of the playoffs. The only player on the team worse than Duren was Daniss. Based on net rating, Stew was the 3rd most impactful player for us in the playoffs

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@michaeldomps @Pistons__Talk He was playing through something for sure, but everyone is playing through something come playoff time, unless it was a legitimate concern (didn’t seem like it since he still played)

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 Watching games and utilizing stats work together, watching games and utilizing xFIP do not work together. Calculating luck for advanced metrics is already a flawed system. Obviously its nice to have, but using advanced stats to argue what you see with your eyes is disingenuous

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 Dude you have Joey Cantillo as the 5th starter, he has worse stats and advanced stats in just about every metric. It’s pretty clear you’re just hating on Melton for some reason

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 Every MLB front office does not agree, using nothing besides advanced analytics to tell you how good a player is just tells everyone that you don’t actually understand the game. Baseball is a significantly different game and can’t be solely based around numbers

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 Did you know that baseball isn’t played on a calculator or a spreadsheet?

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 His advanced stats are quite similar to Messick’s just with them excelling in different areas

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 Pitching run value: 95th percentile
Fastball run value: 97th percentile
Breaking run value: 58th percentile
Offspeed run value: 72nd percentile
xEra: 85th percentile
xBA: 78th percentile
Chase %: 74th percentile
Barrel %: 79th percentile
Hard hit %: 81st percentile

[Matt 🎗 @mattw_lee]

@OMGMets2o24 @Ryan_Shepard734 @TalkinBaseball_ @RyanCohen24 Through his 28 career games he has a 2.03 ERA and 120 innings with a 0.94 WHIP, how does those advanced stats imply anything negative about his game?