Comments on: As per usual, strange things are afoot in the voting for the All-Defensive teams

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:10:44 +0000

The interesting thing is that 82games.com actually uses a different version of PER than Hollinger’s- their scale is different than Hollinger’s (check out some of the PER numbers they have- clearly higher than what Hollinger’s are), so guys like Marion and Collison may actually be even better than what a 13.3 and an 8.7 PER represent relative to the 15 average. Also, Basketball Prospectus’ “Dmult” stats are a must in looking at how well players did defensively

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:35:49 +0000

Mindblowing to realize that Rob Mahoney knows more about basketball than NBA head coaches who vote on this.
Along with Matt Moore, who wants a redesign of the MVP vote to only allow for the staunch support of Lebron, probasketballtalk should be the sole voters for the majority of NBA awards.

By: hoopinion

hoopinion — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:50:31 +0000

Along the Marion/Butler lines, Joe Johnson got one first-team vote. Al Horford got one second-team vote. I’m pretty sure Joe Johnson played a good defensive game this season and I just can’t remember it. I know the Hawks design every defensive possession to have Al Horford guard as many opposing players and as much of the floor as possible. They’re not a good defensive team, but they’d be as terrible without Horford as they would be without Josh Smith.