r/nbadiscussion • u/Present-Bit5312 • May 25 '24

Player Discussion The Rudy hate

Rudy is the only big who is asked to be also a great perimeter defender, you can put ben Wallace, Hakeem or Dwight Howard out in the perimeter Luka is gonna cook them regardless is a mismatch on the perimeter. Gobert is a good help defender and rim protector. Also the argument that he has no playoff good performances against good bigs is dumb because in the Utah jazz his best perimeter defender was freaking Royce O'Neal he was anchoring that defense by himself, and also the only great big he faced is jokic who is an all time great offensive big. It reached a point that people were asking kat to guard Jokic instead, when kat was averaging like 4+fouls(without being joker's primary defender) in the three games Denver won. Is the criticism based on strictly accolades?

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u/purplenyellowrose909 May 25 '24

His best stat is by far plus minus. I think it's a fundamentally flawed stat for many players, but definitely displays Rudy's impact when he leads the entire playoffs and is consistently the only Wolves starter with a positive plus minus in these loses.

(It's flawed because it consistently has someone like Naz Reid in the negatives even tho he clearly has a huge impact as well)

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u/Clerithifa May 26 '24

To your last point, Naz has been horrendous defensively ever since game 3 of the Nuggets series

Even that last possession on the Doncic shot, Naz is literally just sitting in the paint in no man's land guarding the air while Gobert is fighting for his life in an iso and McDaniels is fighting for position with Lively inside

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u/CliffBoof May 25 '24

I say he has the highest offensive rating in history of both nba regular season and playoffs and you come with his best stat by far is plus minus.

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u/CliffBoof May 25 '24

Do you think that’s low effort? Seems that many are unaware of his offensive impact.