Among players who’ve played at least ten games and average over 15 minutes a game, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute has the 20th worst PER.  At 9.23, he comes in 5.77 points below league average, indicating he’s probably at best an end of the bench player who shouldn’t really be getting minutes.

So with all the progress we’ve made statistically over the past few years, this indicates we’re not quite there yet with regard to statistics accurately measuring players.

I don’t blame PER for its inability to accurately measure Mbah a Moute.  Nearly everything he does is impossible to gauge from a statistics point of view.  If the stats were made public, as I’m sure someone is keeping them somewhere, I’m sure we’d see that the Bucks deflect far more passes when Mbah a Moute is on the court than off.  He alone is good for a number of deflections each game and his attitude towards getting a hand on the ball as much as possible seems to rub off on his teammates when he’s in.  In his start against Orlando, his first in five games, the Bucks had at least five deflections in the first quarter by my count.  They hadn’t played with that kind of interest or effort on defense in weeks.  How easy to measure is amplified intensity on the defensive end? Read more…