If that sentence reads at all familiarly, it’s because I and others have made similar statements about Monta Ellis for years. This is another way of saying that so many stats tend to sneer at Rudy Gay once you look beyond scoring average. This isn’t necessarily a flaw in the metric It just means that PER is more forgiving of Rudy than Win Shares and Wins Produced–as a matter of philosophy. It’s hard to know the value of taking a shot, and PER errs on the side of rewarding shot takers. The funny thing about these jokes, apart from that these jokes are funny, apart from that these jokes are funny because they might be true, is that PER likes Rudy Gay best among aggregate advanced statistics. After all, Gay’s 14.94 PER is a shade below average and he’s making $53 million. There were a lot of jokes about how, after John Hollinger joned up with the Grizzlies, Rudy Gay was done in Memphis. That’s a nice way of saying that I don’t understand the interest in him in this instance. I’m open to the idea that Rudy Gay might flourish in the right situation.
Trade rumors are a’ swirling around the idea that Rudy Gay could come to the Warriors.
