> interesting point Magic and Jalen were >trying to bring up is that even if he's bad--theres a >perception by guys inthe league that he's good so they have to >pay harder on the defensive end against him/or use better >offensive players to guard him.
basically made this point when arguing in that trade thread Gay creates spacing simply by hovering around the perimeter his efg% ts% and everything else can be absolutely shitty, it doesn't impact the intrinsic value of having him on the floor if every team in the league views him as an "elite scorer" and responds accordingly now i don't even think that's necessarily a nuanced observation kinda common sense but to celerys point those kinds of things usually get ignored completely on here as ppl argue absolutes based on available data found it interesting that the video dude said game tape observations go hand and hand with the data when he makes his analysis