Kevin Love vs. Blake Griffin

[152219]

Not sure how you are calculating this but Love is shooting 44% from 2 on 72% of his attempts and 39% from 3 on 28% of his attempts (which is the equivalent of 58.5% from 2) for a blended FG % of 48% which is still well below Blake's 51%.

Ok I looked up true shooting and see it includes free throws. Giving free throws the same weight as field goals is very misleading because the player is not being guarded. If you included them at 25% value maybe, full value, meaningless.

FTs are not given the same weight as a FG attempt in TS%.

 

[BoulderSooner]

neither are good defenders ...

 

[Max Power]

Not sure how you are calculating this but Love is shooting 44% from 2 on 72% of his attempts and 39% from 3 on 28% of his attempts (which is the equivalent of 58.5% from 2) for a blended FG % of 48% which is still well below Blake's 51%.

Ok I looked up true shooting and see it includes free throws. Giving free throws the same weight as field goals is very misleading because the player is not being guarded. If you included them at 25% value maybe, full value, meaningless.

The size of the basketball, the height of the basket, and the distance the free throw line is away from the basket don't change from the point you are 13 years old through the NBA. A free throw should absolutely count because there is no reason a guy getting paid millions of dollars to play basketball should shoot less than 75% from the free throw line.

 

[ksSooner13]

The size of the basketball, the height of the basket, and the distance the free throw line is away from the basket don't change from the point you are 13 years old through the NBA. A free throw should absolutely count because there is no reason a guy getting paid millions of dollars to play basketball should shoot less than 75% from the free throw line.

Amen Max Power!! This is one of my biggest pet peeves in basketball! :clap:clap

 

[Soonercuda]

Here is one guys analysis from ESPN:

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7506836/is-kevin-love-blake-griffin-best-power-forward-nba

 

[sperry]

Here is one guys analysis from ESPN:

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7506836/is-kevin-love-blake-griffin-best-power-forward-nba

Pretty decent analysis, although despite ranking them almost equally (59.5 to 59.0), he concludes "the simple fact is Kevin Love is the better player right now", which doesn't make a whole lot of sense given that his analysis put them a statistically insignificant difference away from each other.


They are close right now, although Blake's potential is almost limitless do to being maybe the best athlete in NBA history. However, he's really going to have to improve his free throw shooting or he's going to start getting the hack a shaq treatment. Will be funny if teams start signing stiffs to ten day contracts before the Clipps come to town, like they used to do for Shaq's Lakers, just to get an extra 6 fouls on the bench.