Povtak: A Dissatisfied Brandon Bass Seeks a Bigger Role or a Trade

That would be why Anderson takes 34% of his shots from inside the paint, while Bass takes 38%? And if you exclude dunks and tip-ins, Anderson takes 25% of his shots close, while Bass is at 21%? Bass is a slightly better offensive rebounder (8.8% of opportunities to Anderson’s 8.2%), but Anderson is a better defensive rebounder (14.5% to 11.8%). Anderson also fouls less and assists more. So, if you want a guy who can dunk and is a slightly better offensive rebounder, pick Bass. If you want a guy who can shoot from outside, drive the lane, rebound on defense, pass, and not foul, pick Anderson.

some brandon bass supporters! where were you guys when I had to defend him by myself?? LOL

The three-point shot, and defensive rebounding. He’s developing a post game as well.

If you’re comparing him to Bass, you can probably add defensive rotations and passing the ball occasionally to that list.

Yes, his one-on-one defense needs work. But the best way to fix that is to give him the work. Meanwhile, Bass is no-dimensional at this point — there isn’t a single thing he did well last year, or even adequately.

Much too easy to say ANY player players horrible defense without any links, stats, or rationals to back it up…

“Yeah Jameer plays horrible defense”
“Yeah Vince plays horrible defense”
“Yeah Ryan Anderson plays horrible defense”

Doesn’t really mean anything unless you explain it rationally.

He was streaky after the first month. He consistently put in about 1 point per 2 minutes through December, with better than average game against Houston. In January he had good games against Minnesota, Chicago, Atlanta, and Sacramento, with a bad game against Indiana in the middle of that stretch. The rest of January was back at 1 point per 2 minutes. February was his only really bad month, only scoring double digits once. He sat most of March. His only two games with real minutes were against Minnesota and Denver, where he scored 38 points in 44 minutes. He had five games with real minutes in April, and scored well in four of the five. His playoffs were bad, but for a sophomore player, I think he did OK overall, and that he played well when he played at least 10 minutes for the whole season. The games he did poorly in were generally ones where he played 5 minutes or less, which would prevent many players from establishing a rhythm.

=P

He is a so-so offensive rebounder in a system that absolutely does not want people other than Dwight Howard going after offensive rebounds in order to get back on transition defense.

I think it’s pretty self-evident that Ryan plays better when his minutes are consistent and guaranteed.

Bass:
Rim – 1.264 PPS
<10 ft – 0.786 PPS
10-15 ft – 0.958 PPS
16-23 ft – 0.860 PPS
>23 ft – 0.000 PPS

Lewis:
Rim – 1.078 PPS
<10 ft – 0.976 PPS
10-15 ft – 0.912 PPS
16-23 ft – 0.780 PPS
>23 ft – 1.192 PPS

Anderson:
Rim – 1.176 PPS
<10 ft – 0.500 PPS
10-15 ft – 1.000 PPS
16-23 ft – 0.520 PPS
>23 ft – 1.110 PPS

So, let’s look at their longest-ranged shots:
Bass – 16-23 ft, 0.860 PPS
Lewis – >23 ft, 1.192 PPS
Anderson – >23 ft, 1.110 PPS

Bass is surrendering a quarter of a point per shot to Anderson, as both exceed the league average by about the same amount. He’s surrendering 1/3 of a point per shot to Lewis. Yes, Bass is better than average at the long 2, but Anderson and Lewis are both better than average at the 3, which is more valuable.

Yeah, just having Dwight will get the team to the 2nd round—Stretch 4 offense or not. No, I’m not content with winning a large amount of games with no ‘ship to show for it, but it looks like the general consensus is that it’s better than only winning a handful of games; same result. So what do you do right?

Remember when:

"VC is a definite upgrade…Barnes is more efficient in the SL than…we have 4 all-stars; pick your poison…we’ve upgraded every position so…" LOL. How many more upgrades do we have to keep trading for? At some point, the only upgrades possible will be Chris Paul, Dwade, LeBron James, and Dirk Nowitsky and we’ll probably still see the stretch 4 offense.

Like I said, it’s ALL DWIGHT. As long as he’s here, he’ll get scrubs to the 2nd round. But can SVG draw up a plan to effectively use his non-top 10 (in the league) players? I mean other than stand at the 3-point line and shoot if they’re open. I’m not so sure. He should be able to take any player on his roster and make him useful in some way.

Which puts us in line with 28 other teams.

You know how many different teams have won in my lifetime? 7. And I’m probably one of the older board members. Since I’m not a fan of LA, Miami, San Antonio, Detroit, Houston, Chicago, or Boston, I haven’t seen my team win a championship. That would be just as true if I was a New York fan, an Indiana fan, or any other team except those seven. Yes, a championship is the goal, but to not achieve it is not unexpected.

Bass, on the other hand, played like crap for the majority of the SEASON.

By comparing him to Vince’s Boston series.

Conversely, how many teams have a PF as big and skilled as Gasol? I’ll tell you right now the Magic certainly don’t.

David West, Aldridge, Boozer, Duncan, Gasol, Garnett, Odom, Amare, Bosh, etc. all seem to own Rashard. So is Rashard really an above average post up defender or is he simply an above average post up defender when facing below average offensive players?

I mean, of course it matters. But the Magic led the league in defensive rebounding last year with Lewis in place. So it’s hardly a situation where there are much more rebounds to be gathered.

(But if you think there are, that’s an argument for Anderson, who’s a markedly better defensive rebounder than Bass, and seemed to improve steadily on the defensive boards through the season.)

Yeah, but in a lot of ways Olajuwon was a stretch 5. People remember his moves under the basket, but he had a good stroke that forced you to defend him out to the arc. He wasn’t a prolific three-point shooter, but he wasn’t a paint-only threat either.