The Best and Worst Hawks 06-07

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Measured in win score per minute (kinda like OPS for basketball). The win score formula is Pts + Reb + Stl + 1/2 Blk + 1/2 Ast - TO - 1/2 PF - FGA - 1/2 FTA. Divide by average minutes played to get the per minute average. Per minute averages across positions differ since C and PF tend to rack up more Reb and fewer TO and everyone else tends to do the opposite. The positional averages are:

C- .225

PF- .215

SF- .152

SG- .128

PG- .132

Position adjusted (PA) is measured by player score minus the positional average. Positive is above average and negative is below average.

PG Speedy Claxton- .0196 PA- -0.1124

SG Salim Stoudamire- .0364 PA- -0.0916

PG Royal Ivey- .0696 PA- -0.0624

PG Tyronn Lue- .0871 PA- -0.0449

C Lorenzen Wright- .1077 PA -0.1173

SF Marvin Williams- .1123 PA -0.0397

SG Joe Johnson- .1379 PA +0.0099

F Shelden Williams- .1449 PA -0.0701

FC Solomon Jones- .1646 PA -0.0504

C Zaza Pachulia- .2120 PA -0.0130

SF Josh Childress .2140 PA +0.0620

PF Josh Smith .2228 PA +0.0078

C Esteban Batista .3032 PA +0.0782

Only three Hawks played above average for their position last season, four if you want to count Batista, who played like a stud for 81 total minutes last year. Perhaps next year he'll get more minutes and blow everyone away with a "Where the hell did this guy come from!?" type season. But I'm not holding my breath.

Both of Atlanta's big FA pickups from last year were total crapbombs. Lo produced the least after position adjustment and Speedy produced the second-least.

The worst of the worst all tended to play the PG position, supporting the popular opinion that Atlanta PGs couldn't direct an elementary school play, let alone an NBA offense.

82games.com breaks down the best 5-man units per team, and the team with the best point differential and one of the highest win % sported J. Johnson- J. Childress- J. Smith - M. Williams- Z. Pachulia. Conspicuously absent are any of the underachieving PGs.

Definitively, our point guards suck.