sorry. ripo with typos.

Though, to be as precise as possible, while Dean Oliver’s defensive rating basically mirrors the team, it violates that team spirit by giving guys who steal the ball or block the ball all the credit for those particular plays but gives everybody equal credit or blame for everything else, including when they miss on a steal attempt or don’t get the block. On goal-tending everybody gets an equal share of that blame. Thats whack but the way it currently works in this rating.

It is a podge-podge that impressed when it was prepared (in part because it was so complicated despite this simple explanation) but defensive rating could be made a lot better now (I think) if it incorporated counterpart data to some degree, even knowing that is of course imprecise. Heck defensive rating as is is terribly imprecise so why use that as an excuse to try to do a bit better? Because nobody else wants to critique a “made-man”, godfather of advanced stats. But on this, it needs to be done. So I say it occasionally.

Using BB references defensive rating basically mirrors the team. It doesn’t do a good job of individual ability or effort.

Over at BB value you will see that the team is 16 points better on defense so far this year when he is off the court. True, his defensive rating per them is just about 100 pp/100 allowed, but Nick Collison’s is 84, within the same system.

82 games.com has J.Green at 102 defensively and the team as a whole + 17 points better defensively when he leaves the court.

So, Jeff Green still has a lot of work to do defensively. Granted Collison is usually playing against the second unit of the opponent, but the article in the bolts is misguided.

Ah, screw that. He’s playing too good for the owner to put him on the trading block. Go Thunder. :)

I’m glad there is discussion about it though. I wouldn’t have posted it if I didn’t think it was interesting.