Buddahfan wrote:
View Post
It's also worth noting that if you average out the offensive and defensive ratings for the top 5 Amir + Bosh or Bargs combos, you get:
Bosh + Amir: 1.19 Offensive rating, 1.05 Defensive rating
Bargs + Amir: 1.11 Offensive rating, 1.06 Defensive rating
I was actually surprised that the defensive rating gap wasn't wider, but the offensive rating gap is pretty large.
The conclusion seems to be that the Amir + Bargs combo outscored their opponents a bit more often, but did so by a lesser total amount, suggesting that they were more prone to either making a small positive impact, or to lose large amounts of ground. Bosh + Johnson seems to have outscored their opponents a little less often but when they did, must have piled on the points. When they didn't, the negative impact was possibly less severe. Again, that matters.
Really though, it's hard to draw any solid conclusions without strength of opponent factored in, because when you compare how identical lineups faced with Bosh vs Bargs, you get some odd contrasts, such as the Jack-DeRozan-Turk-Amir lineup that got killed with Bargnani and played well with Bosh.
Comment