I took look right now in basketball-reference.com.
- Win Shares per 48 - among 198 qualified (on pace to play 1500 min) Poole is… #198 (-0.07)
- Box plus/minus - also among same 198 qualified Poole is #197 (-6.9, Malaki Branhman somehow succeeded to be worse at -7.0)
- Value Over Replacement Player - among all 491 players Poole is … yes #491 (-0.7)
- Overall Win Shares - among all 491 players Pools is last #491 once again (-0.8)
- eFG% : Poole with .453 is last #139 among all 139 qualified ( on pace for 300 FG )
- TS% : Poole with .504 - 181 among 194 qualified ( on pace for 500 TSA )
- And only according to PER which favors any scorers even very inefficient among 198 qualified Poole is… #178 which is huge success comparing to other metrics
It’s kind of crazy but when we say “Poole is worst player in the league” it’s not emotional exclamation, but literally stating fact supported by multiple metrics…
I don’t know whether he had to be moved to bench to more suitable 6th man role, benched completely for some period, or something else, but it’s not a matter which can be just not addressed… because absolutely no culture which will enable winning in future could be built with this “star” not accountable for his horrific play… and by the way his trade value is only going down to the bottom right now so playing him a lot will not improve it in any way
So… “everyone bad” and so on. Well. No
WS/64: Gaff 50, Deni 115, Tyus 137, Kuz 173, Poole 198
BPM: Kuz 103, Deni 113, Gaff 116, Tyus 142, Poole 197
VORP: Kuz 104, Deni 123, Gaff 126, Tyus 167, Poole 491
WS: Gaff 84, Deni 119, Tyus 152, Kuz 221, Poole 491
eFG%: Gaff 2, Deni 34, Kuz 61, Tyus 75, Poole 139
TS%: Gaff 4, Deni 51, Kuz 120, Tyus 129, Poole 181
PER: Kuz 45, Gaff 47, Deni 83, Tyus 106, Poole 178
All Wizards players have bad BPM, some players are relatively bad in some metrics, but none of them in worst 10% in any, and same player have good results in others … except Poole which is bottom 10% consistently in each and every category