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Shot Blocking Useless or Mysterious?

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161952.25 in reply to 161952.24
Date: 10/22/2010 11:10:05 AM
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fwiw, my center has proficient SB and averaged 1.8 bpg last season. He's the only player I've ever had above respectable SB. Hilariously, my blocks/game record is held by a scrub rookie who played one game at SF for me last season, and registered seven blocks. (However, my aforementioned center did get eight in a PL game.)

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161952.27 in reply to 161952.26
Date: 10/22/2010 11:23:45 AM
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I wish there was more tangible evidence to show this.

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161952.29 in reply to 161952.28
Date: 10/22/2010 11:33:46 AM
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What makes you think that "rotates over to defend the play" marks shot blocking altering the shot? What other marks are there? I have never seen any I recognised as being related to shot blocking.

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161952.31 in reply to 161952.30
Date: 10/22/2010 11:41:33 AM
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I think the point is that a player's defensive success in that situation could be affected by his ID rating only.

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161952.32 in reply to 161952.30
Date: 10/22/2010 11:49:35 AM
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Okay, but this doesn't come up that often in a match (at least not the ones I just had a quick look at then). It doesn't seem to happen more than half a dozen times.
For example, I checked in the NZBL where the team has a phenomenal shot blocker, and looked at his games, and that line only comes up once in his last game, and twice in the game before that.

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161952.34 in reply to 161952.33
Date: 10/22/2010 12:37:05 PM
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I agree it is probably undervalued a lot, but I just wish there was more evidence to back up what Charles is telling us. I don't believe he is deceiving us, but I don't want a team with shotblocking at 4 levels above ID because charles said it had more value that we gave credit.

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