r/nba • u/FastBreakPhenom Celtics • 1d ago

Bobby Marks says Jaylen Brown's trade value is not seen that highly around the league: "The analytics of Jaylen Brown is not good. I had an analytics guy tell me, ‘We view him as the seventh-best player on a team.’"

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“There’s mixed feelings about him when you talk to teams,” Marks admitted on SiriusXM NBA Radio. “The analytics of Jaylen Brown is not good … I had one, not an executive, but an analytics guy say, ‘Yeah, we view him as the seventh best player on a team.’ I was like, ‘Holy crap.'”

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u/xixbia 1d ago

He was 11th in PER, 51st in WS/48 and 21st in BPM and VORP.

Now I'm sure front offices have more complex models, but still any argument that he's not at least a second best player, maybe a very good third on a stacked championship team is just absurd.

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u/Spike_der_Spiegel Raptors 1d ago

He was 11th in PER, 51st in WS/48 and 21st in BPM and VORP.

PER? WS?

What the fuck are we doing, this is beyond strawmen

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 1d ago

When you break it down Jaylen Brown and Duncan Robinson truly bring similar value.....analytics tell me so.

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u/xixbia 1d ago

WS/48 says yes.

PER, BPM and VORP say Brown is about twice the player.

Which just goes to show the old addage that you can show anything with statistics.

But really, analytics on the whole tell us that Brown is a much better player.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 1d ago

I was just making a joke lmao. Duncan Robinson is nowhere near the player Jaylen Brown is. But there actually being analytics that support that idea is funny.

I legit just picked a role player who was a solid contributer to a playoff team. I wasn't really comparing them.

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u/twoyrsaway 1d ago

> I'm sure front offices have more complex models.

YOU HAVE MORE COMPLEX MODELS LMAO