Comments on: Quick Thoughts

By: Harlan Schreiber

Harlan Schreiber — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:51:20 +0000

-Penbeast,

Marques Johnson was a stretch at PF but I saw Mickey Johnson as more of a back up to Lanier and Pat Cummings as a back up too. Marques definitely played some power and the next three players in minutes were guards and Junior Bridgeman.

-Malemute,

I don’t specifically remember who just missed the list but it was the usual suspects (Karl Malone v. Barkley) almost every year.

-Charlie,

I thought about win shares but I like PER a little better as a catch all stat.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:34:42 +0000

What are other sabermetric-esque statistics did you consider before deciding to use PER primarily in your analysis?

Thanks for the tips on the Pluto books.

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By: Icenine

Icenine — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:44:04 +0000

What’s surprising for me was Duncan recently led his position in PER, with all the talks that he will be rested.. will have a lesser role.. etc. Duncan’s still one of the best, and he will age beautifully because of his fundamental basketball skills.

O’Neal was crazy dominating that long, and I wonder if we will be able to see anything like him in the future. Also reminds me that I started watching the NBA late as I missed watching a lot of the all time greats.

By: Malemute

Malemute — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Ceballos and Brandon really jump out. How about the best players who have not made this list? Maybe Isiah / Richmond / Pierce / Webber / Ewing ?

By: penbeast0

penbeast0 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:54:13 +0000

interesting list, I was surprised to see Nique up there so much with all the other great SFs of that era.

Not sure why you put Marques Johnson at PF, he was clearly the SF on those Bucks teams. In 1980, the PFs were Dave Meyers and Pat Cummings (with a 3 headed monster at center), in 1981 the PFs were Mickey Johnson and Pat Cummings (with Lanier and Catchings playing center). Nellie does have a tendency to play smallball more than most but the regular rotation was pretty set with Marques at SF.