Really good food for thought on this thread by Sam Vecenie/The Athletic reacting to a thread by Nate Silver/538. Utilization of defensive metrics is always an interesting debate!
Inspired by the recent @Herring_NBA@ZachLowe_NBA All-Defense podcast, a 🧵 on why advanced NBA metrics (and in particular 538's RAPTOR) like Nikola Jokic's *defense* quite a bit.
