Thaddeus Wasowicz
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Simmons really has developed an irrational love for Kyrie. Even if you assume offense is 70% of the game…he’s somewhere in the top 10 worst perimeter defenders in the league. That matters.

I also don’t know how he never gets knocked for inconsistency. It comes with the territory, volume scoring is harder when shots don’t fall. When you don’t contribute in other ways, you’re bound to have down nights.

One of the ESPN fantasy football guys has a metric for consistency. It calculates based on an average league (10 people, so I believe it’s 10 QBs 25 RBs 25 WRs and 10 TEs assuming you have a 2WR/2RB/FLEX spot) how many weeks would a player be “starter quality”. If the NBA used something like PER, GameScore or even just the average % they’re off from their season averages on a game to game basis I can only imagine he would come up as one of the most volatile.

He’s a monster scorer, could potentially get better, and when he is on it’s something that can’t be stopped. His 57 against the Spurs a couple of years ago I think it the most impressive scoring game I’ve seen…but impressive doesn’t mean efficient. Every shot was difficult and required 10–15 seconds of pounding the rock. That’s just not sustainable unless you have a top 5 teammate to grind out your bad nights…and he wants to bail on that guy.

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