Noted basketball terrorist Trae Young, often hailed as the worst defender in the NBA has managed to pull his defensive EPM to almost 0.0 (it actually should be once tonight’s game is taken into account). All jokes aside this is pretty impressive stuff as he has managed to improve on defense year after year and is currently top 10 in steals as well. His efficiency is shaky in the new system that Quin installed but stuff like this is nice to see.
||Offensive and Defensive EPM||| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Player |Offense|Defense||| |Trae Young|3.9|-0.1|||
I don’t get how Haliburton has avoided the bad defender rep lol
Incredible offensive player of course but literally every advanced stat as well as the eye test sees him as hideous on that end and yet his reputation seems to be neutral to even positive
Because he’s tall and lengthy for a point guard, so people assume he must be a good defender.