You talked a tremendous amount of shit after Drummond’s rookie year, which, I correctly argued, was historically productive.

Which you correctly argued according to your own arguments; and I think there has not been any development in those arguments to sway other posters. Perhaps you want to argue that Drummond has shared court with a historically bad team, and a historically bad coach for 6 straight years to cancel his historical greatness.

For all the flaws that PER has, I put more faith in metric that tells me that Drummond has always been the same player, with a slight increase in performance this year that makes more of his free throws, than a metric that ranked him historically great for two years (as in the best season of a center ever), then average all-star for three years, then historically great again.

Last I checked, Drummond’s usage was 21% (a 4-year low for him), his TS% was .555 and he’s paid the max. So what does that have to do with a rookie who just broke the 800 minute mark on a team that makes JaVale McGee look like a superstar in 600 minutes? Seriously, Jowles, I’m really starting to worry about you.

You talked a tremendous amount of shit after Drummond’s rookie year, which, I correctly argued, was historically productive. And yet here you are, five years later, spouting the same bullshit about “role players.” I was pretty sure that year after year of being dead-wrong about basketball would do something to your sense of expertise, but, haha, nah?

Is Boston just going to win every home game? So weird.

Capela has been able to stay on the court throughout the playoffs and they are sorta similar players in terms of what they do best, except Capela is a better finisher and sticks to what he’s good much more often. It’s terrible defensive big men that can’t stay on the court, like Enes, not dudes like Drummond.

(speaking of small sample size, Drummond sure lit it up in his 131 playoff minutes. In a hypothetical playoff game vs. Houston or GSW, I wonder how long it would take for Drummond to get the Enes Kanter treatment…you know, Enes Kanter with the great rebounding stats and super-high TS%…)