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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5555128, member: 722"]
As I pointed out in my post, your eye test and the available advanced statistics disagree.  PER and BPM think he was bad all around.  Though better on defense, with a positive 2 dBPM good for 6th on the team. He was 8th on the team in PER and 7th in BPM, both coming ranked lower than Fennell.

Advanced statistics take a little while to stabilize, but if Fennell is playing better now, and has much higher future upside (this season and in future seasons) why on earth would you play Zephir?

BTW, dBPM had Fennell ranked 3rd on the team in defense.  I need to rewatch to decide if the eye test agrees.

One additional caveat is that the advanced metrics like PER and BPM take into account strength of competition, going for 30 points with 10 boards and 3 blocks against Duke is very different than doing the same against, say, Montana State or Binghamton.  Even in a game where we had shut down defense and scored 85 points, only 4 of our players had positive BPM and only 5 of our players had above 15 PER. The advanced statistics think Binghamton is that bad...
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