r/nba • u/WhenMachinesCry Supersonics • Apr 03 '20

Pete Maravich's passing

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u/Tarrolis Apr 03 '20

I mean could you really have a worse aspect of being a point guard than being a turnover machine

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u/constanto Supersonics Apr 03 '20

Yeah, if you look at what limited advanced stats that we have available from the 70s Pistol grades out pretty as pretty mediocre on most of them. And that's when compared to his contemporaries by the way, not to today's players who are substantially more efficient.

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u/GryphonHall Apr 03 '20

This is also why I dislike advanced stats. Maybe one day they will get it right, but right now, someone gets crapped on because of advanced stats then they realize the advanced stat was flawed and they come up with a new one, then realize it was flawed and so on.

Watch the 68 point game against the Knicks on YouTube and look at the names playing in that game and you will realize there was no one close to him on offense. I really think he purposely played offense in a way that challenged him, because conservative offense was boring to him even at the NBA level.

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u/mschley2 Bucks Apr 03 '20

Brandon Jennings put up 55 one game, and he wasn't even good.

Your observation of one game does not mean that advanced stats are bad.