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Trae Young, against all odds, has become a neutral defender in the NBA (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by greenie7680@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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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.

Here is a link to the source

	Offensive and Defensive EPM
Player	Offense	Defense
Trae Young	3.9	-0.1

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[–] Spemanz92@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Counter point, the Hawks are a bad defensive team(currently 6th worst in the league) and Trae has the worst defensive rating of all the Hawks players that get significant minutes. Yes looking at defensive rating by itself is flawed(like any other stat), but if the dude that plays the most minutes in the team has the worst rating in the team, it looks bad. Every single lineup he plays with, is worst with him on the floor.

He also has the worst DBPM in the team by a good margin(-2.3, on par with the rest of his career) and 11th worst in the league.

He might be a bit more engaged on the ball, but he clearly isn't helping the team's defense. Part of it is due to being a physical liability out there, part of it is because he simply is not a good defender, like at all.