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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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[–] ShanghaiAdobo897@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I hope people understand how they compute defensive EPM and EPM in general before using it this way cos no way in hell is Westbrook a highly positive defender.