Pretend for a moment that all you know about "NBA Player X" is the following: He averages 10.5 points, five assists and 4.3 rebounds per game.
If you're like most fans, you probably aren't all that impressed. After all, according to NBA.com, there are 131 players with higher scoring averages, 32 with higher assist averages and 133 with higher rebounding averages.
Those numbers, on their own, don't exactly scream "superstar."
But "NBA Player X" is actually Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala, a man for whom conventional statistics are almost totally worthless. And while Iguodala is perhaps the best example of the outdated, misleading nature of old-school numbers, he's hardly the only one.
The fact that the stats we most commonly rely upon to quantify players say next to nothing about Iguodala's value should tell us something about their usefulness (or lack thereof). Even in terms of evaluating Iguodala specifically, those numbers would seem to indicate he's not playing well at all.
Iggy hasn't scored fewer points per game since his rookie year. Until this season, he never posted fewer than f ...
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Andre Iguodala Proves Old-School NBA Stats Are Dead
January 14th, 2014 by Grant Hughes Leave a reply »
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