Merged: Worried about Pero

[TheNorthCydeRises]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/anticpe01/lineups/2015/

 

When you look at the lineups that Antić has played with, his on court success this season has been HEAVILY tied to playing with Thabo Sefolosha.  

 

Even the stat that most people champion him on ( the +/- stat ), that has fallen completely off of a cliff with no Thabo in the lineup.  He was a whopping -11 in February in +/-.  I personally don't put much stock in that stat, because that -11 was probably not Antić's fault . . . just like +15 he posted in December wasn't because of his good play.

 

Antić needs the most talented players on the team around him, to be successful, because he's normally not going to produce much of anything in the box score.  This is why people tout his "hall of fame" like screen setting and his ability to stand outside and draw centers from the paint, as reasons why Bud plays him.

[Admin]

So basically North knows more than Bud now... Right?

[NineOhTheRino]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/anticpe01/lineups/2015/

 

When you look at the lineups that Antić has played with, his on court success this season has been HEAVILY tied to playing with Thabo Sefolosha.  

 

Even the stat that most people champion him on ( the +/- stat ), that has fallen completely off of a cliff with no Thabo in the lineup.  He was a whopping -11 in February in +/-.  I personally don't put much stock in that stat, because that -11 was probably not Antić's fault . . . just like +15 he posted in December wasn't because of his good play.

 

Antić needs the most talented players on the team around him, to be successful, because he's normally not going to produce much of anything in the box score.  This is why people tout his "hall of fame" like screen setting and his ability to stand outside and draw centers from the paint, as reasons why Bud plays him.

Man you would have to be a really dumb center to be drawn out by a horrblie shooter like Pero.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

So basically North knows more than Bud now... Right?

 

NO.  

 

But while I'm a BIG supporter of Bud, he isn't beyond criticism.   It's just that this fan base acts like we have no alternative other than Antić, despite the Hawks being 10 - 3 this year when he doesn't play, and have won the last 7 games in which he hasn't played in.  

 

It's easy for Bud to keep throwing him out there, because we ARE winning.  But let's not try to justify how needed he is, because he just isn't needed.  Not with the way he's playing.  He's more likely to cost us a game, than win a game for us.

[AtLaS]

So basically North knows more than Bud now... Right?

 

I think he pretty much nailed it.

 

I think Bud is the 2nd best coach in the NBA, but it doesn't mean that he's batting .1000 on all of his decisions.

[AtLaS]

Only Joffrey Lauvergne of the Denver Nuggets ( I know . . . who? ) is a center playing at least 10 minutes a game, that has a lower FG% than Antić.  And Joffrey has only played in 5 games.

 

Of the guys playing 16 minutes a game, he's the poorest rebounder at 3.0 a game.  You'd have to extend it down to 14 minutes a game, to find a center rebounding at a lower rate ( Jason Maxiel  . . at 2.9 per game )

 

 

The fact that Pero belongs in both of these statistical categories is even worse.  Worst FG% and rebounding rate for a center in the NBA with qualified minutes.