Can you do the same for other players on the triple double leaderboard? I’d be hilarious if someone had 30 season triple doubles but no near triple double game.

Usually I don’t give much weight to one catch-all metric. But top 4 are pretty much consensus in multiple major catch-all metrics this season. 1. Jokic 2. Embiid, 3. Shai, 4. Haliburton. You can bet money on Jokic and Embiid being able to keep this up but it’s gonna be interesting how Shai and Hali hold up down the road.

Generally speaking, star players that have very high On/Off possess following 3 characteristics:

1. They are not a ball hog. They facilitate fast ball movement.

2. Extremely efficient passers who prefer passing to open teammates to taking a shot themselves

3. But they are extremely efficient shooters themselves

Devin Booker’s on/off is +18.4 while Tatum’s is +8.4 according to Clearing the Glass

Tatum is a bit too young 25/26 and haven’t won an MVP or FMVP yet. That’s historically not a good combination to win a title, but their roster may be.

They should, but between Kawhi’s incurable injury, PG’s podcast, an aging roster and West being a bloodbath, they also need to be realistic.

Can’t really talk for internal pressure cause everybody has a different brain. For an external pressure, I think Boston and Milwaukee are the two teams that players, fans, front offices and media members all have a very real expectation to win.

Since you said, I checked Clearing the Glass just now. I edited my comment to address what you mentioned. Yes, Tatum has the biggest impact on their team, so does Shai. But there are players who have far bigger impact on their team. What you said is true that Tatum’s on/off is massive, but in a context of the MVP race, it puts him and Shai (far) below Jokic (and Hali, that is if we ignore team records).

The problem with EPM or other impact metrics is they aren’t reliable to quantify defensive impact. On/off analysis isn’t the end all method as well ofc. Either way, it still stands true that Shai #4 isn’t the most controversial thing here.

Thing is Nuggets efficiency plummets whenever Jokic is off the floor while Thunder stays elite with or without Shai on the floor. Shai is insane that he’s putting up eye-popping numbers on an extremely deep team. And Jokic is insane that Nuggets is a title favorite when he’s on the floor and a bottom 5 when he’s not. And it’s not like Nuggets are far below Thinder in the standings. They are only 1 win apart so it’s not logically that controversial to pick Jokic over Shai.

Absolutely from a purely individual performance standpoint. But he needs to build his reputation first via team records to be recognized in a traditional award race like this.

He’s basically new Tatum. His team is very good even when he’s not on the floor. I’d still put him over Luka and Joel because you need to respect the record, and Shai clearly their #1 guy.

i was talking to my Asian-born friends and both of them were like “She looks fully grown and doesn’t look underage at all.” “how tf would he know she’s not legal?” and kinda sympathetic with Giddey. Obviously different ethnicities age differently, though. I wonder if Australian high school girls look younger than their American counterparts.

Milton was driving into the paint that are guarded not only by KAT and Rudy but other two defenders as well.

He damn sure knew he’s going to get demolished lol

Love how the entire Nuggets followed Jokic along with his trolling attempt and the fact AG was almost in sync with him lol

There’s no way White and KCP aren’t borderline top 50, probably just below the 41-50 tier. Starting 5 of Boston and Denver are ridiculously stacked.

I think all these analytics sites that use tracking data haven’t been updated since the last season. If that will continue to be the case, you probably need to go back to boxscore based metrics simply because there aren’t no other options in terms of all-in-one metric.

Dlo wasn’t kidding when he said he wants to be Derrick White. He’s like 2022 Wiggins. There are many teams that are Derrick White away from winning a championship.

One of them will win DPOY and they both will be selected to All-NBA Def 1st.

Michael Jordan and Karl Malone won MVP at 34/35. John Stockton has been the same level of player in terms of PER between age 25 and 40.