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Originally Posted by Underdog
Ran across an excellent tweet today that provided a simple counter to this rant...
@mikegrib8: Ppl say "who cares if Bagley had 33/17? it was against 6'5 Bonzie Colson" or "Who cares if Ayton had 32/16 or w/e he had against fucking GG Goloman"... But to me it's important trait to be able to dominate the match ups that you are supposed to dominate.
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Well we all know Magnum was a hot air troll who posted like a Russian bot on facebook. His entire aim was to create controversy.
But the flack against putting up big stats is also highly driven by advanced stat people. We live in an age where no amount of big stats means anything if it doesn't measure up against true winning percentage, or who you play against, or plus/minus, or win shares, or per 48, or per 36, or blah blah blah.
Anyone who has actually been on a basketball court in a 5v5 situation knows that putting up 33/17 is damn impressive. The fact that he put up 19/13 a day later in a back-to-back situation is equally impressive.