Nilanka wrote:
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Last year Jonas allowed 1.10 PPP against the roll man in pick and roll situations (19th percentile), Kanter allowed 0.72 (81st percentile).
In post up defense JV was excellent with 0.61 PPP against (92nd percentile), Kanter wasn't quite as good allowing 0.83 (61st percentile).
Kanter allowed opponents to shoot 53.2% at the rim while JV allowed 52.2%.
JV had a 106.1 dRTG, Kanter's was 106.5.
I can't pull up ESPN's DRPM stats for some reason, but I'm not a huge fan of those anyway since they seem to fluctuate wildly year over year, but in DBPM JV outperformed Enes by a wide margin at +2.7 to -3.1.
From looking at the totality of that plus watching them play I really don't think Valanciunas is leaps and bounds better than Kanter defensively, especially not in pick and roll situations.
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