Cool Chris Paul stats of the day: Chris Paul currently has the longest streak in NBA history of games with 12+ assists and at most 1 turnover, at 3 Games. In fact, he holds 3 of the top 5 spots. http://stats.nba.com/search/player-streak/#?CF=AST*gt*12|TOV*lt*2&sort=GAMESTREAK&dir=1
Trying to understand the stats a little better. Is Net Rating equivalent to net point differential per 100 possessions? Are the lineups here accurate?? https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2018/lineups/
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In fairness, many of these are reasonable responses when some moron advocates for acquiring Ricky Rubio.
Rubio has a higher TS% than Paul does at present. I have always been a cp3 advocate. You can read it throughout my post history. The underlying point is: Even though Paul is shooting like crap.......he is turbocharging this offense alongside Harden and he is making Harden even more efficient and proficient. Those are the two things I kept telling you would happen if we actually got a pass first playmaker alongside Harden. I said it repeatedly and was rebuffed by posters like you every time.
Ryan has been on fire since CP3 came back. He shot 55% from 3s (21/38) in the past 5 games he played. That is incredible!
Yeah and for their ENTIRE CAREER Paul has a TS% of 58% and Rubio is sadly sitting at 50.4%... Not to mention he's far superior in almost every other single category outside of maybe steals (where he is still better). I actually like Rubio's game, but there is no need to defend your blind love for him with moronic comments like "Rubio has a higher TS% than Paul does at present." Right.
The point was this team needed a true facilitator in the worst way. I said it all last year before we cratered against the spurs. We needed that pass first playmaker alongside Harden. More than 90% of this board denied that. Chris Paul is a facilitator first. He's a shot creator for others. He could not take a single shot and we'd probably kick everybody's butt by even more than we are now. He's exactly what this team needed.
That would be the same or equal to hitting 31.5 shots out of 38 from inside the 3 point line. Which would be shooting 83%!!!!! I never use exclamation points , but damn.
